A collection of essays by 65 film-makers, including Clint Eastwood, Robert Altman, the Coen brothers, Mike Leigh and Roman Polanski, on their favourite film, director or actor. There are also pieces by Oliver Stone, double Oscar-winning animator Nick Park, and cameraman Henri Alacan.
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In honor of the one hundredth anniversary of film, Boorman and Donohue have collaborated with the editors of "Positif" in compiling the thoughts of almost 100 filmmakers on the art of the cinema. Here you can find anecdotes and analyses by contemporary luminaries Robert Altman, Elia Kazan, Mike Leigh, Marcel Ophuls, Bertrand Tavernier, Joel and Ethan Coen, Claude Chabrol, Chris Marker, Ken Loach, Clint Eastwood, Erich Rohmer, Alan Rudolph, Fred Zimmerman, Andre de Toth, and many others. Also included is a moving essay by Kevin Brownlow on the triumph and tragedy in the life of Buster Keaton, the great silent clown and master filmmaker.
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John Boorman was born in London in 1933. After working as a film reviewer for magazines and radio, he joined the BBC in 1955 as an assistant editor, and later directed a number of documentaries. His first feature was 'Catch Us If You Can' in 1965. His latest film, Country of My Skull, opens in 2003. He is a five-time Academy Award-nominee, and was twice awarded Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for Leo the Last (1970) and The General (1998). He is the author of Money Into Light: The Emerald Forest - A Diary, as well as the being the co-founder and editor of Faber and Faber's long-running series Projections: Film-makers on Film-making.
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