Cinematic encounters : interviews and dialogues / Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenbaum, Jonathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion picture actors and actresses--Interviews.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Place of Publication:

Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, 2018.

Summary:

Godard. Fuller. Rivette. Endfield. Tarr. In his celebrated career as a film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum has undertaken wide-ranging dialogues with many of the most daring and important auteurs of our time. Cinematic Encounters collects more than forty years of interviews that embrace Rosenbaum's vision of film criticism as a collaboration involving multiple voices. Rosenbaum accompanies Orson Welles on a journey back to Heart of Darkness, the unmade film meant to be Welles's Hollywood debut. Jacques Tati addresses the primacy of décor and soundtrack in his comedic masterpiece PlayTime, while Jim Jarmusch explains the influence of real and Hollywoodized Native Americans in Dead Man. By arranging the chapters chronologically, Rosenbaum invites readers to pursue thematic threads as if the discussions were dialogues between separate interviews. The result is a rare gathering of filmmakers trading thoughts on art and process, on great works and false starts, and on actors and intimate moments.

Contents:

Introduction: in defense of critical interactivity

The voice and the eye: a commentary on The heart of darkness script

Tati's democracy

Paris journal on Stavisky

Show business in the end: interview with Jim McBride

Phantom interviewers over rivette

"Conversation" with Paul Morrissey

Geraldine Chaplin interview (from London Journal)

Obscure objects of desire: a jam session on non-narrative

Sam Fuller spills his guts

Catching up with Godard

A lesson in modesty: speaking with Alain Resnais

Cinema at a distance: interview with Peter Gidal

The "presents" of Michael Snow

Ivan the bearable: Ivan Passer on Cutter's way

Just Jost

On location with John Carpenter's The thing

Jackie Raynal

Documentary expressionism: the films of William Klein

Pages from the Endfield file

The Seberg we missed: interview with Mark Rappaport

A gun up your ass: interview with Jim Jarmusch

Trailer for Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema

Falling down, walking, destroying, thinking: a conversation with Bela Tarr

Trying to catch up with Raul Ruiz

A handful of world: the films of Peter Thompson.

Notes:

Collection of previously published essays and interviews, from 1972-2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252050909

0252050908