Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview - Softcover

Wood, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904764908 ISBN 13: 9781904764908

Publisher: Wallflower Press, 2007

Synopsis

Talking Movies is a collection of interviews with audacious and respected contemporary filmmakers. Selected directors represent figures whose work has defined how images are processed and appreciated by modern audiences. The book offers a truly international perspective, including global pioneers who frankly discuss their craft and the social, political, and technological forces that inform it: Laurent Cantet, Robert Guédiguian, Cédric Kahn, and Bertrand Tavernier (France); David Gordon Green, Hal Hartley, and Richard Linklater (USA); Alejandro González Iñárritu and Carlos Reygadas (Mexico); Stephen Frears and Andrew Kötting (UK); Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey); Atom Egoyan (Canada); Suzanne Bier (Denmark); Tran Anh Hung (Vietnam); Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran); Elia Suleiman (Palestine); and Lucrecia Martel (Argentina).

About this title

About the Author:

Jason Wood is a film programmer, documentary filmmaker, and writer. He is the author of Contemporary Mexican Cinema and has been published in Vertigo, the Guardian, and Sight and Sound.

Review:

British Writer, programmer and filmmaker Jason Wood's collection of 31 interviews with an international cast of writers and directors is a discerning look into the minds and motivations of some of cinema's brightest talents. Wood's Q&As, many reprinted from various outlets, provide interesting anecdotes about the creative process... Readers and cinephiles should be grateful that Wood takes pains to showcase international masters along with several filmmakers who are still waiting to be discovered - Asif Kapadia, Samira Makhmalbaf, and Elia Sulieman for example... With luck, another collection, updated for a new crop of filmmakers, will be published soon. (Gary M. Kramer Filmbill)

Talking Movies is an indispensable volume that should be considered a set text for arts journalists (both budding and professional) trying to master the methodology behind achieving the most revealing and entertaining interviews possible. (David Jenkins Time Out)

Impressive and enlightening. (Movie Maker)

About this edition

• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1904764908
• ISBN 13: 9781904764908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224