A wide-ranging interview in which Gilliam talks at length about his life, his work, the malaise of the film industry, and the state of the world. As expected from Gilliam, it makes for fascinating and sometimes controversial reading.
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The film takes as its source Cortázar’s (and wife-photographer Carol Dunlop’s) book about their unusual road trip from Paris to Marseille, titled Autonauts of the Cosmoroute. Humbert discusses the intricate process of adapting such a unique book to the screen.
The origins of the Luxembourg Cinémathèque is a fascinating story of cinéphilia in its own right. Claude Bertemes discusses the Cinémathèque’s history, along with issues about curatorship, preservation, and film and technology in the digital age.
For any scholar of the so-called New American cinema of the late ’60s and early ’70s, the career of Bob Rafelson makes for an interesting case study. A wide-ranging interview with the director of Five Easy Pieces, Stay Hungry and Mountains of the Moon.
Andrew V. McLaglen never quite reached the ranks of auteur, but he left his mark in his own way. This career interview offers real insight into the working life of a noted director in the studio era.
Dresen has directed eight feature films and, as Abel reveals, “Is one of the rare successful contemporary German directors who was born and raised in the GDR [former East Germany] and has managed to adjust to the market-driven rules of filmmaking characteristic of reunified Germany.”
Warren, together with his contemporary Pete Walker, were seen as the “two young Turks of British ’70s horror” that took the genre beyond the gothic Hammer studio template. The director of such titles as Her Private Hell, Satan’s Slave and Terror discusses his career.
The Argentine director of the impressive Los Muertos (2004) discusses his impressive recent feature, Liverpool.
Serra places his film dealing with the Three Wise Men in the same tradition of religious films as those of Dreyer, Rossellini and Pasolini.
Denis discusses her recent feature, 35 Shots of Rum, a film inspired by Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring, and, as Hughes puts it, “a love story – or, in fact, several love stories – told in small gestures and commonplace tragedies”.
The director of Acéphale and Héraclite l’obscur looks back on the people, films and events that have shaped his work and thoughts.
The Chad-born director of Bye Bye Africa, Abouna and Darratt discusses the significance of his films, and the broader context of African Cinema today.
An in-depth discussion with the director of such cult-music era-defining documentaries as Hey is Dee Dee Home, Born to Lose and the ‘Sex Pistols in America’ movie D.O.A., together with outstanding films such as Hitler’s Highway and, most recently, Winners and Losers. Surprising revelations are to be found in what Kowalski has to say on all manner of subjects.
In the first decade of the Cahiers era, Bitsch conducted many interviews with Hollywood directors. He has expressed great fondness for this particular one – because of Welles and in memory of his co-interviewer, the legendary André Bazin.
Wide-ranging interview in which Bitsch discusses his youthful cinéphilia, his association with Cahiers du Cinéma, and his work with Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, et al. So evocative, one can almost relive history in the making through his words.
Further illuminating insights come from the voice of the filmmaker herself, who was recently the subject of a retrospective at the 2007 VIENNALE.
A key contributor to France’s experimental film culture, Christian Lebrat, filmmaker and director of the publishing imprint Paris Expérimental, talks about his films and related interests.
Filmmaker Viviane Vagh talks to one of the seminal figures of the French experimental film scene. Filmmaker, critic and cinema historian, Raphaël Bassan speaks about his career, his films and his life long passion for film.
A stimulating discussion with Miami-based filmmaker and theoretician Michael Betancourt about his unique audio-visual experiments.
The most influential figure in the history of the ‘New American Cinema’ discusses his past, present and ongoing projects. The interview concludes with Mekas’ strikingly precise and detailed evocation of the historical controversy surrounding Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures.
One of the best US Independent filmmakers to emerge in recent years, the director of the critically acclaimed Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation discusses his work at length.
After having his first two short films screened at respective Cannes Film Festivals in the mid-1990s, a decade later director Ogilvie has shot his first feature on Super 8.
The fabled Israeli filmmaker speaks at length about his cinema, the tortured history and politics of the Middle East, his interest in landscape, architecture, and the stories of people caught within and between State-imposed geo-political boundaries.
French critics coined the term Nouvelle Vague Allemande in response to the rise of a new wave of filmmaking in Germany. In this wide-ranging interview, the filmmaker and co-editor of the magazine Revolver discusses the current state of German cinema in the light of its history, and the cultural and æsthetic ideas that impact on his films and thinking.
Bill Morrison is one of the most distinctive voices in the independent film scene. On the occasion of a retrospective of his films at the Cork Film Festival in Ireland, he speaks about the practice of his found-footage æsthetic.
Having relocated from New York to Melbourne, Ben Speth continues to make low budget cinema of an intimate, lyrical quality about quotidian people and places.
