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Eye on the world : conversations with international filmmakers / Judy Stone.

Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.P7 S75 1997
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stone, Judy, 1924-2017.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Motion pictures--Production and direction.
Motion pictures.
Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Screenwriters.
Interviews.
Screenwriters--Interviews.
Genre:
Interviews.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xix, 826 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Los Angeles : Silman-James Press, [1997]
Summary:
More than 200 filmmakers from more than forty countries are included in this unique and engrossing look at cinema from around the world.These filmmakers are profiled in discussions with Ms. Stone that get straight to the heart of these artists' works and their underlying views of the world -- the political and cultural contexts -- that inform their works. This wonderfully inviting, enlightening and insightful blend of conversations and commentaries, most of which are drawn from the author's long-running film column for the San Francisco Chronicle, is a must-read for all students and fans of the rich and varied artistry that is world cinemaz Among the filmmakers included are Alfonso Arau, Hector Babenco, Bernardo Bertolucci, Kenneth Branagh, Luis Bu$uel, Francis Ford Coppola, Constantin Costa-Gavras, Alex Cox, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Milos Forman, Jean-Luc Godard, Neil Jordan, Chen Kaige, Elem Klimov, Akira Kurosawa, Spike Lee, George Lucas, Mira Nair, Jan Nemec, Istvan Szabo, Bertrand Tavernier, Francois Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda, Peter Weir, Wim Wenders, Lina Wertmuller, and Zhang Yimou. Judy Stone has been writing about international cinema for the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications including The New York Times and Ramparts, for forty years. She is the author of The Mystery of B. Traven.
ISBN:
1879505363
OCLC:
36566046

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