Arthur Penn: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604731052 ISBN 13: 9781604731057

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2008

Synopsis

Beginning in 1957 with the release of his directorial debut The Left Handed Gun, Arthur Penn (b. 1922) quickly became an iconoclastic and influential American film director. Moving deftly between comedy and tragedy, realism and absurdity, his films Mickey One, Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant, Little Big Man, and Night Moves speak to the troubled times--the 1960s and 1970s--in which they were made while remaining timeless in their unsettling portrayal of characters on the margins of society.

Arthur Penn: Interviews is the first collection to explore every stage of the director's career. These conversations span forty-five years, from his first in-depth discussion with Cahiers du cinéma in 1963 to a new interview from 2007, and reveal Penn's ever-changing ideas on the nature of film and filmmaking. This volume also presents newly translated interviews from European film periodicals, published in English for the first time.

About this title

Book Description:

Collected interviews with the director of Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant, Little Big Man, Night Moves, and other films

About the Author:

Michael Chaiken has published in Film Comment. Paul Cronin is the editor of Herzog on Herzog.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1604731052
• ISBN 13: 9781604731057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Chaiken Michael, Cronin Paul