Tangents: From the Making of Shepard & Dark Hardcover Book and Blu-Ray Set

Tangents

Edited and with photographs by Treva Wurmfeld.

Tangents is a book about the making of SHEPARD & DARK, the award-winning documentary portrait of legendary playwright/actor Sam Shepard and his complex relationship with long-time friend Johnny Dark. Director Treva Wurmfeld shares stories, reflections, and never-before-published dialog and interviews with Sam and Johnny, plus more than 100 rare photos, film stills, and atmospheric Southwestern landscapes taken during the making of the film.

Book Dimensions: 191mm x 254mm Hardcover

Page count: 168

Blu-Ray included in a pocket on the back cover

Shepard & Dark (2012)

92 minutes

SHEPARD & DARK tells the story of the decades-spanning friendship between Academy Award®-nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard (THE RIGHT STUFF, BURIED CHILD) and eccentric, reclusive deli clerk Johnny Dark. As the two men come together to publish their lifelong correspondence at the University of Texas Press — hundreds of eloquent handwritten letters dating back to the early 1960s —their shared memories, literary ties, and one-time family bonds emerge in an indelible documentary portrait of a complex friendship rarely depicted on screen.

Special Features

• Deleted Scenes
• Additional Interviews
• Theatrical Trailer