Interviews With Film Directors
1967
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This is a fundamental compilation made for one of the most lucid, smart and brilliant cinema critics. He offers brief but dense interviews with the most prominent directors of those ages. His penetrating vision and sharp intelligence allows us to know some interiorities, unknown anecdotes and even revealing statements. Kurosawa, Buñuel, Fellini, Welles, Bresson, Ford, Hawks, Losey, Pasolini, Bergman are part of an impressive set of famed and irreverent directors of the seventh art. As referential guide and consulting resource, this book is still a must in your library.
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Author
Andrew Sarris
Author · 8 books
Most famous for his 1962 essay "Notes on the Auteur theory" which popularized this film criticism technique in America. He wrote for the Village Voice criticing films and literature before bringing the Auteur theory from France to America and employing it in analysis of Hitchcock's film Psycho. He wrote for The New York Observer until 2009 and was a professor at his alma mater, Columbia University where he taught courses on Internationl Film, Hitchcock, and American Cinema. Trivia: The evil overlord from Galaxy Quest was named after him!
