Projections 9: French Film-Makers on Film-Making (No. 9) [Paperback]

Walter Donohue (Author), John Boorman (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1999 | Series: Projections

This issue of "Projections" celebrates French cinema by using the interviews conducted by "Positif" magazine with the major French film-makers of the past 50 years. The book presents a panorama of French cinema ranging from the aesthetic masterpieces of Robert Bresson to the searing aggression of Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine, including along the way the masters of the French New Wave: Alain Resnais, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol. Over the past 50 years French cinema has exhibited an incredible ability to renew itself and to not only flourish in the face of competition from English-language film-making, but also to create masterpieces of cinema unparalleled anywhere in the world, and this collection of interviews sheds new light on the reasons behind this resilience.

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About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 193 pages
• Publisher: Faber & Faber (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0571193560
• ISBN-13: 978-0571193561
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,347,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)