Bøger i Conversations with Filmmakers Series serien

Presents fifteen articles, interviews, and seminars spanning William Friedkin's career. He discusses early influences, early successes, awards, and current projects. The volume provides coverage of his directorial process, beliefs, and anecdotes from his time serving as the creative force of some of the biggest films of the 1970s and beyond.

These interviews trace Wes Craven's life and career, from his upbringing in a strict religious family and his life as an academic to his years toiling in exploitation cinema. The volume also chronicles Craven's ascendancy as an independent director, his work within the studio system, and his eventual triumph in mainstream cinema.

Collects eight of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and sound; the importance of poetry, music, and the visual arts in relation to his work; his concept of the muse; and the key influences on his art-making.

Barbara Kopple has established herself as one of the most prolific filmmakers of her generation. Her projects have ranged from documentaries to feature films to an educational series for kids. Through it all, Kopple has made herself available for many print and broadcast interviews. The most revealing of these are brought together in this volume.

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is as famous for his remarkable films as for his courageous defiance of Iran's state censorship. In sparkling, lively interviews, Panahi reveals his influences, politics, and filmmaking practices, and explains the challenges he faces while working within (and often around) Iran's heavily restricted film industry.

David O. Russell (b. 1958) boasts a diverse body of work as a writer and director, spanning multiple genres and featuring radically differing aesthetic styles. This career-spanning volume features conversations with scholars and journalists as well as filmmakers, revealing Russell's evolving writing and directing process, and opening his life to reveal how a remarkable body of work has come to be.

Roger Corman (b 1926) is known by many names - craftsman, artist, maverick, mentor, and cheapskate. He learned his craft at the end of the studio system, only to rebel against Hollywood and define himself as the true independent. Spanning his career, this collection of interviews brings into focus Corman's legacy and commitment to filmmaking.

Taken from a variety of sources including academic journals, mainstream newspapers, and independent bloggers, Danny Boyle: Interviews is one of the first books available on this director. As an interviewee, Boyle displays an engaging honesty and openness. His success proves that classical storytelling artists still resonate with audiences.

Few directors in the past three decades have produced movies more compelling, controversial, or confounding than David Lynch. And fewer still have been so reluctant to talk about what they do. In this collection, editor Richard A. Barney has chosen the rare interviews in which Lynch opens up to questions rather than deflecting them.

A director, producer, and writer, George Lucas is the power behind "The Force". This first book of Lucas's interviews affords fans and students of film and science fiction a rare opportunity. Editor Sally Kline collects conversations from the reticent director spanning Lucas's entire career.

Rogue filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (b. 1968) rocketed to fame with his ultra-low-budget film El Mariachi (1992). In this, the first book devoted to Rodriguez, interviews and articles from 1993 to 2010 reveal a filmmaker passionate about making films on his own terms.

A collection of interviews made with director James Ivory (b 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005), and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (b 1927). It traces their career, while offering insights into their creative filmmaking process.

When George A Romero released his first film, "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), he created a genre - the zombie move - with which his name will always be associated. This collection of interviews with the creator of the zombie genre discusses his inspirations, his development as a director, and the evolution of filmmaking.

These interviews cover the career to date of Neil Jordan (b. 1950), easily the most renowned filmmaker working in contemporary Irish cinema. His films have won many accolades, including the London Critics Circle Award for Best Film and Best Director, Best Film at the BAFTAs, and an Academy Award for Best Screenwriter.

Hal Ashby (1929-1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of, say, Robert Altman or Martin Scorsese, his diverse films are among the best known and most beloved of the era. Hal Ashby: Interviews for the first time brings together the best interviews conducted over the course of Ashby's career.

One of Canada's premier cinematic exports, Guy Maddin (b. 1956) is an award-winning filmmaker with a rising reputation. Guy Maddin: Interviews collects pieces published between 1990 and 2009 and offers the reader a whirlwind tour of Maddin's offbeat career in his own words, as solicited by a range of journalists, scholars, and fellow filmmakers.

Four-time winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan began his career while still at the University of Toronto. The interviewscollected here reveal Egoyan's unique themes, and his individual, independent approach to filmmaking. He discusses his development as a director, his interest in opera and museum installations, and the expectations he has for his audience.

The interviews in this book offer a range of insights into the theoretical, critical, and practical circumstances of Eric Rohmer's remarkably coherent body of films, but also allow Rohmer to act as his own critic, providing us with an array of readings concerning his interest in setting, season, colour, and narrative.

Presents an irreverent and humorous collection of conversations with the acclaimed documentary filmmaker. Errol Morris (b. 1948) has created some of America's most innovative, lasting cinematic works. This volume features startling interviews from throughout his career, as well as intimate, never-before-published discussions.

Working entirely outside the studio system, the Coen brothers scored an unlikely first success in 1984 with their postmodern noir film Blood Simple. Two decades and nearly a dozen movies later, the Coens are now among the best-known writer/directors in Hollywood. This collection of their most important interviews spans twenty years and is the most comprehensive published on the brothers.

Collects published conversations with filmmaker Mike Leigh. Not just a close-up encounter with Leigh, they also express both his unusual work style and the emotional and intellectual toughness that characterizes his distinct approach to filmmaking. As Leigh speaks in these interviews, he reveals what is unique in his work.

Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) is known as the "Rousseau of the cinema," a mostly "B" genre Hollywood moviemaker deeply admired by "A" filmmakers. Fuller, who made 23 features between 1949 and 1989, is the very definition of a "cult" director, appreciated by those with a certain bent of subterranean taste. This volume tells his story.

Bertrand Tavernier (b. 1941) is widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s, in the wake of the New Wave. In this collection, containing numerous interviews translated from French and available in English for the first time, he discusses the arc of his career.

This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D.A. Pennebaker (b. 1925) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s to the present day, D.A. Pennebaker has made documentary films that have revealed the world of politics, celebrity culture, and the music industry.

Highlights how Blake Edwards created the hugely successful Pink Panther franchise; his long partnership with award-winning composer Henry Mancini; his principles of comedy as influenced by the comic greats of film history, especially silent comedies; his marriage and film collaborations with Julie Andrews; and his unique philosophy of life.

After a robust career in the Netherlands as the country's most successful director, Paul Verhoeven built an impressive career in the US with controversial blockbusters. Paul Verhoeven: Interviews covers every phase of the director's career, beginning with six newly translated Dutch newspaper interviews and ending with a set of previously unpublished interviews dedicated to his most recent work.

Presents some of Michael Haneke's most profound interviews to English speakers. The volume features seventeen articles, fourteen of which have been translated into English for the first time, and all of which provide a detailed, eloquent commentary on his films and worldview.

Wong Kar-wai's signature style - experimental, emotive, character-driven, and timeless - remains apparent throughout his films. This volume includes interviews that appear in English for the first time, including some that appeared in Hong Kong magazines now out of print. The interviews cover each of Wong's feature films.

Collects fifteen interviews that illuminate Kasi Lemmons's ability to challenge social expectations through film and actualize stories that broaden expectations of cinematic black femaleness and maleness. The interviews reveal Lemmons's passion to create art through film, intimately linked to her mission to push the boundaries imposed by Hollywood.