Cineaste Interviews 2




	Cineaste Interviews 2 Filmmakers on the Art and Politics of the Cinema Edited by Gary Crowdus and Dan Georgakas Table of Contents Preface 1 The Taviani Brothers: We Believe in the Power of Cinema 2 Jack Lemmon: Spread a Little Sunshine 3 Akira Kurosawa: Making Films for All the People 4 Lizzie Borden: Labor Relations 5 Robert Redford: Combining Entertainment and Education 6 Costa Gavras: Keeping Alive the Memory of the Holocaust 7 Krystyna Janda: Woman of Marble 8 Peter Greenaway: Cinema of the Total Art Form 9 Spike Lee: Our Film Is Only a Starting Point 10 Susan Sarandon: Acting, Activism, and Hollywood Politics 11 Sally Potter: Demystifying Traditional Notions of Gender 12 Arthur Penn: The Importance of a Singular, Guiding Vision 13 Mike Leigh: I Find the Tragicomic Things in Life 14 Francesco Rosi: Investigating the Relationship Between Causes and Effects 15 Tomas Gutierrez Alea: Investigating the Relationship Between Causes and Effects 16 Abbas Kiarostami: Real Life is More Important than Cinema 17 Atom Egoyan: Family Romances 18 Gianni Amelio: Beyond Neorealism:Preserving a Cinema of Social Conscience 19 Marlene Gorris: The Lighter Side of Feminism 20 Tim Robbins: Between Ethics and Politics 21 John Sayles: Borders and Boundaries 22 Milos Forman: Porn Again 23 Oliver Stone: History, Dramatic License, and Larger Historical Truths 24 Fred Zinneman: A Past Master of His Craft 25 Ken Loach: The Revolution Betrayed




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About the Authors

Gary Crowdus founded Cineaste in 1967, while studying film production at New York University, and he has headed the editorial board ever since. He was an associate editor of the now defunct Film Society Review. He has worked in film and video distribution with The Tricontinental Film Center and Unifilm (1968-1972). He is presently President of Distribution at The Cinema Guild. He is the editor of and a contributor to A Political Companion to American Film.

Dan Georgakas has been an editor of Cineaste since 1969 and is coeditor of the first Cineaste Interviews, In Focus: A Guide to Using Films, and Solidarity Forever, a historical text based on the film The Wobblies. He also is coeditor of The Encyclopedia of the American Left, co-author of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying, and author of The Methusaleh Factors—Strategies for a Longer Life. He currently teaches media, ethnic studies, and history courses at New York University.