Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology

Richard Roud

ISBN 10: 1844576256 / ISBN 13: 9781844576258

Published by BFI Publishing, 2014

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pp. 288.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology
• Publisher: BFI Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844576256
• ISBN 13: 9781844576258
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Richard Roud, film writer and co-founder and director of the New York Film Festival, was one of the most influential film critics of the twentieth century. Renowned for his close relationships with French New Wave directors such as Godard and Truffaut, he played a key role in bringing European art cinema to the attention of American and British audiences.

This anthology brings together selected writings from his published works with previously unpublished archival material – from an unfinished study of Truffaut, to extracts from his books on film-makers such as Straub-Huillet and Ophüls, and articles for The Guardian and Sight & Sound. Charting Roud's journey through the world of film festivals and film criticism from the 1950s to the 1980s, Decades Never Start on Time provides a fascinating insight into the flourishing film culture of the era.

With a preface by David Thomson.

About the Authors

Michael Temple is Reader in Film and Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and the Essay Film Festival. He is the author of Jean Vigo (2005), and has co-edited several books about Jean-Luc Godard, as well as Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology (BFI, 2014).

Karen Smolens is the niece of Richard Roud. She attended her first New York Film Festival at age 13, where she saw her uncle moderate a press conference with Roberto Rossellini following a screening of The Rise of Louis XIV (1966). She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.