World directors in dialogue
Subtitle: conversations on cinema
By: Bert Cardullo
Publisher: The ScarecrowPress, Inc.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780810877788; 9780810877795
Subjects: Motion pictures; Production and direction; Interviews; Motion picture producers and directors
Description: Features interviews with thirteen major international directors Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Luchino Visconti, Abbas Kiarostami, Ermanno Olmi, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Zhang Yimou, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Jacques Tati, Eric Rohmer, and François Truffaut.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Italian eye-view. Reality, romanticism, eroticism; title: and the cinema : an interview with Luchino Visconti; title: Reflecting reality and mystery : an interview with Ermanno Olmi; title: Francophone communication. Comedy belongs to everybody : an interview with Jacques Tati; title: An auteur for all seasons : an interview with Eric Rohmer; title: Alter ego, autobiography, and auteurism : François Truffaut's last interview; title: The cinema of resistance : an interview with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne; title: Near East, Far East, mid-conversation. I am simply a maker of films : a visit with Akira Kurosawa, the sensei of the cinema; title: Master of art : an interview with Satyajit Ray; title: The accidental auteur : a dialogue with Abbas Kiarostami; title: beyond the fifth generation : an interview with Zhang Yimou; title: Talking English. I call my films subversive : a conversation with Mike Leigh; title: It's not just about me : Ken Loach and the cinema of social conscience : an interview.