Roger Ebert wrote the foreword to this collection of 35 in-depth
interviews with the world's leading filmmakers and critics, from
Fonda to Fassbinder, from Canby to Costa-Gavras, from Sarris to
Sayles. Cineaste, America's leading magazine on the art and
politics of the cinema, has become known for its in-depth
interviews with filmmakers and film critics of international
stature. The best of these interviews are now collected in this
volume. The interviews: Constantin Costa-Gavras, Glauber Rocha,
Miguel Littin, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ousmane Sembene, Elio Petri,
Dusan Makavejev; Gillo Pontecorvo; Alain Tanner, Jane Fonda,
Francesco Rosi, Lina Wertmuller, Roberto Rossellini, Tomas
Gutierrez Alea, Gordon Parks, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John Howard
Lawson, Paul Schrader, Agnes Varda, Bertrand Tavernier, Andrew
Sarris, Bruce Gilbert, Jorge Semprun, Vincent Canby, John Berger,
Andrzej Wajda, John Sayles, Krzysztof Zanussi, Molly Haskell, Budd
Schulberg, Satyajit Ray. The unique value of these interviews will
be the comments by the filmmakers on the crucial artistic and
political decisions confronted in the making of their films, many
of which have become classics of their kind. The filmmakers and
critics talk about their own development, films which influenced
their work, and the continuing controversies and alternative
approaches in filmmaking. They take on their critics and their own
previous positions with a clarity and forcefulness to be expected
from some of the leading practitioners of their art. The interviews
are introduced with a foreword by Roger Ebert, television
commentator and critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Mr. Ebert
discusses the relation of art and politics and some of the common
perspectives which unite filmmakers of different cultures and of
diverse artistic and political temperaments. Among the subjects of
these wide-ranging talks are: the choice between popular and
experimental forms of narrative; the filmmaker's responsibility to
society; blacks and women in the movies; the rise of third world
filmmaking; Hollywood's left and progressives; the conditions of
filmmaking in different societies; the challenges of independent
production; different forms of censorship, from the U.S. to Poland;
trends in criticism and auteur theory to feminism; the power of the
reviewer.
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