Soit dit en passant est le récit exhaustif de la vie de Woody Allen, à la fois personnelle et professionnelle, et revient sur sa carrière au cinéma, à la télévision, sur la scène des clubs ainsi que
The long-awaited, enormously entertaining memoir by one of the great artists of our time. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing standup before he achieved recognition and success. With his unique storytelling pizzazz, he recounts his departure into moviemaking, with such slapstick comedies as Take the Money and Run, and revisits his entire, sixty-year-long, and enormously productive career as a writer and director, from his classics Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Annie and Her Sisters to his most recent films, including Midnight in Paris. Along the way, he discusses his marriages, his romances and famous friendships, his jazz playing, and his books and plays. We learn about his demons, his mistakes, his successes, and those he loved, worked with, and learned from in equal measure. This is a hugely entertaining, deeply honest, rich and brilliant self-portrait of a celebrated artist who is ranked among the greatest filmmakers of our time.
James Cameron has blazed a trail through the cinematic landscape with a series of groundbreaking films that have each become deeply embedded in the popular imagination. But while Cameron has created and employed advanced filmmaking technologies to realize his unique vision, his process of creative ideation began with pen, pencil and paints long before he picked up a camera. Inspired by his mother, an artist, Cameron displayed remarkable ability at an early age, filling sketchbooks with illustrations of alien creatures, faraway worlds, and technological wonders. As he grew older, his art became increasingly sophisticated, exploring major themes that would imbue his later work-from the threat of nuclear catastrophe to the dangers inherent in the development of artificial intelligence, to a fascination with ecology that would foreshadow his storied career in science and exploration. Working in the film industry in his early twenties, Cameron supported himself by illustrating theatrical posters and concept art for low-budget films before creating the visionary concept pieces that would help greenlight his first major feature, The Terminator. For the first time, Tech Noir brings together a dazzling and diverse array of personal and commercial art from Cameron's own collection, showing the trajectory of ideas which led to such modern classics as The Terminator, Aliens, Titanic and Avatar. Starting with his earliest sketches through to unrealized projects and to his later work, the book features the filmmaker's personal commentary on his creative and artistic evolution throughout the years. A unique journey into the mind of a singular creative powerhouse, Tech Noir is a true publishing event and the ultimate exploration of one of cinema's most imaginative innovators.
Joseph Gelmis "defensor de la teoría del cine de autor" sostiene que hasta una época reciente la mayoría de directores eran prácticamente intercambiables y el sello del estudio que producía las películas era determinante, mientras que posteriormente ha surgido un nuevo tipo de director-dictador con un control artistico total de sus peliculas: "el director es la estrella".El proposito de Gelmis, a traves de estas entrevistas, es hacer un documental sobre esta nueva especie de directores. La seleccion "que excluye a ciertos realizadores, que pueden considerarse muy representativos, debido a haber ya protagonizado otros libros de entrevistas" abarca un amplio panorama de directores independientes, norteamericanos y europeos, desde outsiders como Mc Bride hasta Kubrick cuya superproduccion 2001: una odisea en el espacio es calificada por Gelmis como "la mas increible pelicula underground jamas realizada".
Nacido en Knoxville, Tennessee, en 1963, Quentin Tarantino pasó muchos sábados por la noche durante su infancia acompañando a su madre al cine, alimentando un amor por las películas que, en el transcurso de su vida, se hizo cada vez mas absorbente. El guion de su primera pelicula tardo cuatro años en completarse; el de su segunda pelicula, Reservoir Dogs (1992), tardo un poco menos de cuatro semanas. Cuando se presento, fue aclamado de inmediato como uno de los nuevos directoresmas interesantes de la industria.Conocidas por su estilo visual altamente cinematico, su original narrativa y su enorme violencia, las peliculas de Tarantino han provocado elogios y criticas a lo largo de su carrera. Tambien ha ganado una serie de premios, que incluyen Oscar, Globos de Oro y premios BAFTA, generalmente por sus guiones. Para mi, el exito es que cuando acabe mi carrera se me considere uno de los mejores cineastas que hayan existido. Y no solo un cineasta, sino un gran artista.
Eclipsados por actores y directores, los directores de fotografía suelen caer en el olvido. A través de una selecta recopilación de entrevistas, el lector conocerá tres generaciones de los directores de fotografia mas famosos. Incluye mas de 500 ilustraciones a todo color, fotogramas y fotos de rodaje.
