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As the first book length study about Dolan with case studies of key films like Mommy 2014 Tom at the Farm 2013 and It s Only the End of the World 2016 this volume explores the global reach o

Contextualizing and closely reading each of Christopher Nolan s films this collection examines the director s play with memory time trauma masculinity and identity

This comprehensive and in depth study delves into the life and works of the most famous director who has ever lived Steven Spielberg Spielberg is the medium s defining artist the embodiment of the Hollywood ideal the commercial potential of film married to its creative possibilities He s widely popular but he s also a stylist and far darker than he is given credit for Often it is this very darkness that speaks to us But it s also his incredible knack for telling stories with lightness that speaks to millions by mixing the extraordinary with the ordinary His leading characters even Indiana Jones are marked by their vulnerability their mistakes their yearning It s the human touch There are so many parts to Spielberg s story the suburban background that supplied the films with a biographical streak the collaborations with George Lucas and the Movie Brats in general with composer John Williams producer Kathleen Kennedy editor Michael Khan stars Richard Dreyfus Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks and mogul and mentor Sid Sheinberg The myths that bloomed from the making of these films The nightmare shoot and stubborn shark behind Jaws The strange ambitions of Close Encounters Dive bombing with 1941 Inventing Indiana Jones Re inventing the blockbuste

A fresh innovative interpretation of the life work and lasting influence of the twentieth century s most iconic filmmaker

A fresh innovative interpretation of the life work and lasting influence of the twentieth century s most iconic filmmaker

As the first book length study of the films of Mia Hansen Love this volume introduces her cinema to both an academic and a general readership

This insightful biography takes a balanced and thoughtful look at the creative and enigmatic man who has had a greater influence on American culture than almost any other individual Walt Disney

Showcases the most contemporary scholarly and archival research into Ken Russell s career and work

Examines an under analysed period of Robert Altman s career

Learn movie making techniques through the movies you know and love with This Is How You Make a Movie Using key scenes from some of the best loved movies of all time Tim Grierson explores everything from cinematography to the secrets of talking to camera Deep focus is explored through Citizen Kane forced perspective through Elf and slow motion through Reservoir Dogs Examples from blockbusters Wonder Woman to Oscar winners Rocky silent era gems Intolerance to recent art house treasures American Honey give readers a glimpse of cinema s breadth and potential A fascinating read for movie buffs who want to understand what goes on behind the camera and above all an essential read for students and beginners in the industry With sections on acting directing lighting and camera writing and editing this book includes all the technical help you need to get your movie career off the ground Including these directors and more Steven Spielberg Martin Scorsese Mike Leigh Sofia Coppola Spike Lee Barry Jenkins Francis Ford Coppola Steve McQueen Tim Miller Stanley Kubrick Alfred Hitchcock Barry Jenkins Charlie Chaplin Roman Polanski Andrea Arnold Tim Burton Kenneth Branagh Including these movies and more Atonement If Beale Street Could Talk Ferris Bueller s D

A master filmmaker inimitable and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values Bunuel s method is free from all artifice and his honesty and humour are to extreme to accept any compromise in exposing our deceit and our decadence Like Pasolini his work offers a remarkably sophisticated political analysis but remains based in the essentially peasant values of storytelling and the purposefully unsystematic supervisions of laughter

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic Deleuzian and phenomenological exploration of Japan s finest currently working film director performer and celebrity The volume uniquely explores Kitano s oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement becoming animal melancholy and loss intensity schizophrenia and radical alterity and through the aesthetic temperatures of color light camera movement performance and urban and oceanic space In this highly original monograph all of Kitano s films are given due consideration including A Scene at the Sea 1991 Sonatine 1993 Dolls 2002 and Outrage 2010

The definitive look at one of the most important Black art films and original filmmakers of the 1970s Bill Gunn s Ganja & Hess 1973 has across the decades attained a sizable cult following among African American cinema devotees art house aficionados and horror fans thanks to its formal complexity and rich allegory Pleading the Blood is the first full length study of this cult classic Ganja & Hess was withdrawn almost immediately after its New York premiere by its distributor because Gunn s poetic re fashioning of the vampire genre allegedly failed to satisfy the firm s desire for a by the numbers blaxploitation horror flick for quick sell off in the urban market Its current status as one of the classic works of African American cinema has recently been confirmed by the Blu ray release of its restored version by its continued success in screenings at repertory houses museums and universities and by an official remake Da Sweet Blood of Jesus 2014 directed by Spike Lee one of the original picture s longtime champions Pleading the Blood draws on Gunn s archived papers screenplay drafts and storyboards as well as interviews with the living major creative participants to offer a comprehensive absorbing account of the influential movie and its highly

In each of his films Wes Anderson builds entire worlds that fans tend to feel somehow really should exist Discover the rich veins of inspiration that he weaves into this unique magic Anderson s colorful and richly structured style is universally admired but how has he managed to create such an enigmatic visual signature Like many key creatives he s found inspiration in a huge host of varied influences From Hitchcock and Spielberg to Truffaut and Varda there are countless filmic homages and references scattered throughout Anderson s filmography while his cultural anchor points also go deep beyond film and into the worlds of art and literature Evocations of place and time also underpin his work from mid century Paris in The French Dispatch to grand pre war Europe in The Grand Budapest Hotel while cultural institutions such as Jacques Cousteau and The New Yorker magazine are other touchstones For Wes Anderson fans and cinephiles alike uncover the fascinating creative process of one of the world s most revered filmmakers

The first edited collection of critical essays on American filmmaker Richard Linklater

Presents a portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene This book offers a comprehensive biography of Sembene and contributes a critical appraisal of his life and art in the context of the political and social influences on his work

The mercurial Danish director of Dogville Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves offers his inimitable views on life and art in this fascinating opinionated and witty addition to Faber s Directors on Directors series Lars Trier affected the lordly von in his name while still a film student in homage to such great movie makers of the past as von Sternberg and von Stroheim His own brilliant directing career has been marked by similarly grand ambitions and he is unique in having premiered all of his features from the highly styled The Element of Crime to the digital video originated The Idiots at the Cannes Film Festival Trier is a rare item in contemporary cinema a restless innovator and polemicist as his participation in the back to basics Dogme95 movement attests and these conversations with Stig Bjorkman author of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen trace the evolution of his career and thought in a manner that is both astonishingly detailed and engagingly humorous

Terrence Malick s debut film Badlands announced the arrival of a unique talent In the 40 years since that debut Malick has only made 5 films but they are distinctive in their beauty This book is not meant to be a biography of Terrence Malick The purpose behind the book is to introduce readers to the extraordinary universe of his film making and to aid them in understanding his work And to do this through the words of his closest collaborators cinematographers set designers costumers cameramen directors producers and actors such as Sean Penn Martin Sheen Sissy Spacek and Jessica Chastain As their words flow from one to another they form a fascinating kaleidoscopic vision of American film and specifically Malick s artistic world who make up a film This book is the fruit of a journey began years ago when Luciano Baracaroli Carlo Hintermann Gerardo Panichi and Daniele Villa made a documentary on the work of Terrence Malick which led to the making of this book as well

Nicolas Roeg is one of the most distinctive and influential film makers of his generation The generation of film makers who define contemporary movie making Danny Boyle Kevin Macdonald The Last King of Scotland Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight James Marsh Man on Wire and Guillermo Del Toro Pan s Labyrinth all acknowledge their debt to the work of Nicolas Roeg Roeg began as a cameraman working for such masters as Francois Truffaut and David Lean His explosive debut as a director with Performance established an approach to film making that was unconventional and ever changing creating works such as Don t Look Now The Man Who Fell to Earth Bad Timing Insignificance and more recently Puffball Having now reached eighty years of age Roeg has decided to pass on to the next generations the wealth of wisdom and experience he has garnered over fifty years of film making

Documentary films are the rock and roll of our times Why are they made Who are in the tribe of documentary film makers Do their films really change the world Eighteen years ago Nick Fraser created BBC Storyville producing films that won Oscars BAFTAs and Peabody Awards He found film makers from all across the world covering important subjects in documentaries In Say What Happened he describes the frenzied intense world of documentary film making tracing its history back to the early pioneers such as Dziga Vertov and his ground breaking Man with a Movie Camera The book deals with the British documentary tradition founded by John Grierson and discusses the work of American masters such as the Maysles brothers Frederick Wiseman and D A Pennebaker as well as Europeans such as Marcel Ophuls Claude Lanzmann Chris Marker and Werner Herzog He interviews acclaimed documentary film makers and discusses the work of Ken Burns Errol Morris and Joshua Oppenheimer among others across the globe as well as listing his top one hundred documentaries and where readers can watch them In a world beset with fake news he argues documentaries are better at getting at the verities about life and death and that the new journalism will come from films made using n