Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cin ma to his later writings for Cahiers du Cin ma, reflects his dazzling intelligence, biting wit, maddening judgments, and complete unpredictability. In writing about Hitchcock, Welles, Bergman, Truffaut, Bresson, and Renoir, Godard is also writing about himself-his own experiments, obsessions, discoveries. This book offers evidence that he may be even more original as a thinker about film than as a director. Covering the period of 1950-1967, the years of Breathless, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, this book of writings is an important document and a fascinating study of a vital stage in Godard's career. With commentary by Tom Milne and Richard Roud, and an extensive new foreword by Annette Michelson that reassesses Godard in light of his later films, here is an outrageous self-portrait by a director who, even now, continues to amaze and bedevil, and to chart new directions for cinema and for critical thought about its history.
Now in paperback, a collection of interviews with a French cinematic titan--covering subjects such as adaptation, the effects of capitalism on art, and the importance of intuition--selected from a period of four decades. Robert Bresson, the director of such cinematic masterpieces as Pickpocket , A M
Robert Bresson, the director of such cinematic master-pieces as Pickpocket, A Man Escaped Mouchette, and L'Argent, was one of the most influential directors in the history of French film, as well as one of the most stubbornly individual: He insisted on the use of nonprofessional actors; he shunned t
Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928-2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force? Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema, to the beloved documentary? The Gleaners and I (
Film is arguably the dominant art form of the twentieth century. In this Very Short Introduction , Michael Wood offers a wealth of insight into the nature of film, considering its role and impact on society as well as its future in the digital age. As Wood notes, film is many things, but it has beco
Illustre de plus de 200 photos, un ouvrage unique qui retrace la filmographie passionnante d'un acteur mythique. "Ecrire sur Delon, c'est participer a la construction d'un mythe vivant. C'est cotoyer un acteur intimement lie aux cinquante dernieres annees du cinema francais. De ses debuts fracassant