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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-10057121102X

ISBN-139780571211029

eBay Product ID (ePID)18038822187

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Book TitleMoviemakers' Master Class : Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Film / Direction & Production

Publication Year2002

IllustratorYes

GenrePerforming Arts

AuthorLaurent Tirard

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.6 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-019927

Reviews"What a pleasure to read so much straight talk about filmmaking from these masters of the craft. Each interview is brimming with insight-- and honesty." -- Leonard Maltin, "What a pleasure to read so much straight talk about filmmaking from these masters of the craft. Each interview is brimming with insight-- and honesty." --Leonard Maltin, What a pleasure to read so much straight talk about filmmaking from these masters of the craft. Each interview is brimming with insight-- and honesty.

Dewey Decimal791.4302

Table Of ContentPreface Acknowledgments Groundbreakers John Boorman Sydney Pollack Claude Sautet Revisionists Woody Allen Bernardo Bertolucci Martin Scorsese Wim Wenders Dream Weavers Pedro Almodóvar Tim Burton David Cronenberg Jean-Pierre Jeunet David Lynch Big Guns Oliver Stone John Woo New Blood Joel and Ethan Coen Takeshi Kitano Emir Kusturica Lars Von Trier Wong Kar-wai In a Class by Himself Jean-Luc Godard

SynopsisFrom Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard, interviews with twenty of the world's greatest directors on how they make films--and why Each great filmmaker has a secret method to his moviemaking--but each of them is different. In Moviemaker Master Class , Laurent Tirard talks to twenty of today's most important filmmakers to get to the core of each director's approach to film, exploring the filmmaker's vision as well as his technique, while allowing each man to speak in his own voice. Martin Scorsese likes setting up each shot very precisely ahead of time--so that he has the opportunity to change it all if he sees the need. Lars Von Trier, on the other hand, refuses to think about a shot until the actual moment of filming. And Bernardo Bertolucci tries to dream his shots the night before; if that doesn't work, he roams the set alone with a viewfinder, imagining the scene before the actors and crew join him. In these interviews--which originally appeared in the French film magazine Studio and are being published here in English for the first time--enhanced by exceptional photographs of the directors at work, Laurent Tirard has succeeded in finding out what makes each filmmaker--and his films--so extraordinary, shedding light on both the process and the people behind great moviemaking. Among the other filmmakers included are Woody Allen, Tim Burton, Joel and Ethan Coen, and John Woo., Twenty of the world's top film-makers are gathered together in this volume and talk about the nuts and bolts of film-making. The directors include Woody Allen, John Boorman, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, the Cohen brothers, Tim Burton, Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier, John Woo and Wong Kar-Wai, among others. They range in age and experience from the young French director of the international hit, Amelie , to the bastion of French cinema - Jean-Luc Godard.

LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.P7T495 2002

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