Film World: The Directors' Interviews (Talking Images) - Softcover

Ciment, Michel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845204581 ISBN 13: 9781845204587

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

Film World brings together key interviews with cinema's leading directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most influential film-makers of the last 50 years. All have been selected because of their cinematic vision, because they have a particular way of seeing the world and of filming it. All have created a body of work which is both hugely popular and critically acclaimed.

This truly global range of directors hails from Australia, Britain, China and Hong Kong, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, North America, Poland, and Russia. Together, these illuminating interviews reveal how these visionary directors create images which speak to audiences the world over.

The interviews are with: Bernardo Bertolucci, John Boorman, Robert Bresson, Jane Campion, John Cassavetes, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wong Kar-wei, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Takeshi Kitano, Im Kwon-taek, Mike Leigh, Manoel de Oliveira, Satyajit Ray, Martin Scorsese, Andrei Tarkovsky, Lars von Trier, Zhang Yimou

About this title

About the Author:

Michel Ciment is a renowned film critic, historian and judge at international film festivals. Editor of the French film review, Positif, his publications include collected interviews with Stanley Kubrick, Elia Kazan and John Boorman.

Translated from the French by Julie Rose

Review:

For every ambitious academic reformulation of cinema and its history, we need a book like this. Screening the Past

About this edition

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1845204581
• ISBN 13: 9781845204587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382