
Fred Schepisi
Interviews
Tom Ryan(Editor)
University Press of Mississippi
Published on 30. March 2017
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4968-1147-9 (ISBN)
Description
In the New Yorker, Stephen Schiff has described Fred Schepisi (b. 1939) as "probably the least-known great director working in the mainstreamAmerican cinema-a master storyteller with a serenely muscular style that can make more flamboyant moviemakers look coarse and overweening." Schepisi's launch in Australia during the country's film renaissance of the 1970s and his ongoing international work have rightfully earned him a reputation as an actors' director. But he has also become a skillful stylist, forging his own way as he works alongside a talented team of collaborators.
This volume includes twenty interviews with Schepisi andtwo with longtime collaborators, cinematographer Ian Baker and composer Paul Grabowsky. The interviews trace the filmmaker's career from his beginnings in advertising, through his two early Australian features-The Devil's Playground and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith-to his subsequent work in the United Statesand beyond on films as various as Plenty, Roxanne, A Cry in the Dark, The Russia House, Six Degrees of Separation, Empire Falls, Last Orders, and Eye of the Storm. Schepisi's films are diverse thematically and visually. In what is effectively a master class on film direction, Schepisi discusses his creative choices and his workwith actors and collaborators behind the scenes. In the process, he provides a goldmine of insights into his films, his filmmaking style, and what makes him tick as an artist.
This volume includes twenty interviews with Schepisi andtwo with longtime collaborators, cinematographer Ian Baker and composer Paul Grabowsky. The interviews trace the filmmaker's career from his beginnings in advertising, through his two early Australian features-The Devil's Playground and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith-to his subsequent work in the United Statesand beyond on films as various as Plenty, Roxanne, A Cry in the Dark, The Russia House, Six Degrees of Separation, Empire Falls, Last Orders, and Eye of the Storm. Schepisi's films are diverse thematically and visually. In what is effectively a master class on film direction, Schepisi discusses his creative choices and his workwith actors and collaborators behind the scenes. In the process, he provides a goldmine of insights into his films, his filmmaking style, and what makes him tick as an artist.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jackson
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4968-1147-9 (9781496811479)
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Based in Melbourne, Australia, Tom Ryan was the film critic for the Sunday Age and has been a regular contributor to the arts pages of the Age and the Australian for three decades in addition to publishing in Lumiere, Cinema Papers, Movie, Positif, Film Comment, and Senses of Cinema. He previously edited Baz Luhrmann: Interviews, published by University Press of Mississippi.