After a robust career in the Netherlands as the country s most successful director Paul Verhoeven built an impressive career in America with controversial blockbusters. Paul Verhoeven. Interviews covers every phase of the director s career beginning with Dutch newspa... Lees meer.

William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock s work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote Each man kills the thing he loves with the quintessentially American philosophy articulated in Emerson s writings that g... Lees meer.

A unique cocktail of personal memoir cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino. The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. a deliriously ent... Lees meer.

For fans of When Harry Met Sally and readers of I Feel Bad About My Neck comes an indispensable collection of wit and wisdom from the late great writer-filmmaker A hilarious and revealing look at one of America s most beloved screenwriters. From the beginning of her ca... Lees meer.

The long-awaited first work of non-fiction from the author of the 1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. a deliriously entertaining wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino. A unique cocktail o... Lees meer.

John Huston as Adaptor makes the case that adaptation is the salient element in Huston s identity as a filmmaker and that his early and deep attraction to the experience of reading informed his approach to film adaptation. Thirty-four of Huston s thirty-seven films were... Lees meer.

Covers every decade of Dennis Hopper s career featuring conversations from 1957 through to 2009 and not only captures him at the significant points of his tumultuous time in Hollywood but also focuses on the lesser-known aspects of the man. In this fascinating and hig... Lees meer.

Described by Giles Deleuze as one of the greatest modern auteurs Philippe Garrel is widely acknowledged as the most significant filmmaker to emerge in France after the New Wave. His deeply personal cinema traces the troubled sentimental lives of couples exploring th... Lees meer.

Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot s achievement situating his career in the wider context of Frenc... Lees meer.

Looks at the work of Jesus Jess Franco 1930-2013 one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. Editors Antonio L zaro-Reboll and Ian Olney have assembled a team of scholars to examine Franco s offbeat films which command an inter... Lees meer.

The long-awaited first work of non-fiction from the author of the 1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. a deliriously entertaining wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.... Lees meer.

Collects eight of Stan Brakhage s most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks his theories of vision and sound the importance of poetry music and the visual arts in relation to his work his concept of the muse and the key i... Lees meer.

Over nearly sixty years Agn s 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 b... Lees meer.

Harmony Korine. Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine s stunning rise fall and rise again through his own evolving voice. Bringing together interviews collected from over two decades this unique chronicle includes rare interviews unavailable in print for years and an e... Lees meer.

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is as famous for his remarkable films as for his courageous defiance of Iran s state censorship. In sparkling lively interviews Panahi reveals his influences politics and filmmaking practices and explains the challenges he faces while... Lees meer.