Projections 4
Published on 1. November 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-571-17363-1 (ISBN)
Description
Projections is a forum for film-makers in which the practitioners of cinema write about their craft. In this edition we celebrate the centenary of film with articles ranging from an interview with Louis Lumiere - the inventor of the cinema - to James Toback's tales of contemporary Hollywood. Included in Projections 4:
Louis Lumiere - Founding Father
Martin Scorsese - Anamorphobia
James Toback - A Journal for 1994
Penn on Penn
Ken Burns - Raising the Dead
Sidney Howard - The Gone with the Wind Letters and The Story Gets a Treatment
Louis Malle, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Fred Berner, Larry Pine - Chekhov's Children
Walter Murch - Sound Design: The Dancing Shadow
Eddie Fowlie - Playing Cowboys and Indians
John Seale - Lunch and a Book
Gene Kelly - An American in Paradise
Sally Potter - The Tango Lesson
Federico Fellini - Creation and the Artist
Viggo Mortensen - Missing Sandy Dennis
Lindsay Anderson - On John Ford
This edition also includes contributions by Percy Adlon, Kevin Brownlow, Roger Corman, Alex Cox, Andre de Toth, Nora Ephron, Monte Hellman, Huang Mingchuan, Richard Lowenstein, Dusan Makavejev, Arthur Penn, Vincent Sherman, Istvan Szabo, Michael Tolkin, Vincent Ward and Fred Zinneman.
Louis Lumiere - Founding Father
Martin Scorsese - Anamorphobia
James Toback - A Journal for 1994
Penn on Penn
Ken Burns - Raising the Dead
Sidney Howard - The Gone with the Wind Letters and The Story Gets a Treatment
Louis Malle, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Fred Berner, Larry Pine - Chekhov's Children
Walter Murch - Sound Design: The Dancing Shadow
Eddie Fowlie - Playing Cowboys and Indians
John Seale - Lunch and a Book
Gene Kelly - An American in Paradise
Sally Potter - The Tango Lesson
Federico Fellini - Creation and the Artist
Viggo Mortensen - Missing Sandy Dennis
Lindsay Anderson - On John Ford
This edition also includes contributions by Percy Adlon, Kevin Brownlow, Roger Corman, Alex Cox, Andre de Toth, Nora Ephron, Monte Hellman, Huang Mingchuan, Richard Lowenstein, Dusan Makavejev, Arthur Penn, Vincent Sherman, Istvan Szabo, Michael Tolkin, Vincent Ward and Fred Zinneman.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
548 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-17363-1 (9780571173631)
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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 & Faber's long-running series Projections: Film-makers on Film-making.