Agnès Varda : interviews / edited by T. Jefferson Kline.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019, author.

Contributor:

Kline, T. Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson), 1942- editor.

Series:

Conversations with filmmakers series.

Conversations with filmmakers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women motion picture producers and directors--France--Interviews.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019--Interviews.

Varda, Agnès.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]

Summary:

Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the ""Mother of the New Wave"" but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment in France. Varda''s first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), displayed many of the characteristics of the two later films that launched the New Wave, Truffaut''s 400 Blows and Godard''s Breathless. In a low-budget film, using (as yet) unknown actors and working entirely outside the prevailing studio s

Contents:

Agnès Varda from 5 to 7 / Pierre Uytterhoeven (1962)

Agnès Varda: the hour of truth / Michel Capdenac (1962)

A secular grace: Agnès Varda / Jean-Andre Fieschi and Claude Ollier (1965)

Interview with Agnès Varda / Hubert Arnault (1967)

The underground river / Gordon Gow (1970)

Lions love / Andre Cornand (1971)

Mother of the new wave: an interview with Agnès Varda / Jacqueline Levitin (1974)

Agnès Varda: a very worthy young woman / Mario Cloutier (1975)

Agnès Varda talks about the cinema / Mireille Amiel (1975)

L'une chante, l'autre pas: inteview with Agnès Varda / Jean Narboni, Serge Toubiana, and Dominique Villain (1977)

Agnès Varda / Gerald Peary (1977)

Sings, the other doesn't: an interview with Agnès Varda / Ruth McCormick (1978)

Agnès Varda / Philippe Carcasonne and Jacques Fieschi (1981)

Interview with Agnès Varda / Francoise Aude and Jean-Pierre Jeancolas (1982)

Interview with Agnès Varda / Francoise Wera (1985)

Agnès Varda: a conversation / Barbara Quart (1986)

Interview with Varda on The vagabond /Jean Decock (1988)

Agnès Varda: playing with tarot cards / Jean Darrigol (1994)

The grandmother of the new wave / Carol Allen (1996)

The modest gesture of the filmmaker: an interview with Agnès Varda / Melissa Anderson (2001)

The gleaners and I by Agnès Varda / Julie Rigg (2005)

Agnès Varda in Toronto / Gerald Peary (2008)

The beaches of Agnès: an interview / David Warwick (2009)

Gleaning the passion of Agnès Varda / Andrea Meyer (2009).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index.

Includes filmography.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62103-998-6

1-61703-920-9

OCLC:

854848227