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Cineaste magazine Website:
http://www.cineaste.com
Cineaste Interviews
(http://www.cineaste.com/)
Edited
by Dan Georgakas & Lenny Rubenstein
Roger Ebert wrote the foreword to this collection
of 35 in-depth interviews with the world's leading filmmakers and
critics, from Fonda to Fassbinder, from Canby to Costa-Gavras, from
Sarris to Sayles.
Cineaste, America's leading magazine
on the art and politics of the cinema, has become known for its
in-depth interviews with filmmakers and film critics of international
stature. The best of these interviews are now collected in this
volume.
The interviews: Constantin Costa-Gavras, Glauber Rocha, Miguel
Littin, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ousmane Sembene, Elio Petri, Dusan
Makavejev; Gillo Pontecorvo; Alain Tanner, Jane Fonda, Francesco
Rosi, Lina Wertmuller, Roberto Rossellini, Tomas Gutierrez Alea,
Gordon Parks, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John Howard Lawson, Paul
Schrader, Agnes Varda, Bertrand Tavernier, Andrew Sarris, Bruce
Gilbert, Jorge Semprun, Vincent Canby, John Berger, Andrzej Wajda,
John Sayles, Krzysztof Zanussi, Molly Haskell, Budd Schulberg, Satyajit
Ray.
The unique value of these interviews will be the comments by the
filmmakers on the crucial artistic and political decisions confronted
in the making of their films, many of which have become classics
of their kind. The filmmakers and critics talk about their own development,
films which influenced their work, and the continuing controversies
and alternative approaches in filmmaking. They take on their critics—and
their own previous positions—with a clarity and forcefulness to
be expected from some of the leading practitioners of their art.
The interviews are introduced with a foreword by Roger Ebert,
television commentator and critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Mr.
Ebert discusses the relation of art and politics and some of the
common perspectives which unite filmmakers of different cultures
and of diverse artistic and political temperaments.
Among the subjects of these wide-ranging talks are: the choice
between popular and experimental forms of narrative; the filmmaker's
responsibility to society; blacks and women in the movies; the rise
of third world filmmaking; Hollywood's left and progressives; the
conditions of filmmaking in different societies; the challenges
of independent production; different forms of censorship, from the
U.S. to Poland; trends in criticism—auteur theory to feminism; the
power of the reviewer.
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