false 2718723 1 <DIV><DIV>Since the late 1990s, a subtle, subversive element has been at work within the staid confines of the Hollywood dream factory. Young filmmakers like Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, and Sofia Coppola rode in on the coattails of the independent film movement that blossomed in the early 1990s and have managed to wage an aesthetic campaign against cowardice of the imagination, much like their artistic forebears, the so-called Movie Brats&#8212;Coppola, Scorsese, De Palma, Altman, and Ashby among others&#8212;did in the 1970s. But their true pedigree can be traced back to the cinematic provocateurs of the Nouvelle Vague&#8212;such as Truffaut, Goddard, Chabrol, Rohmer, and Rivette&#8212;who, in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, liberated screens around the world with a series of films that challenged our assumptions of what the medium could offer and how stories could be told&#8212;all of them snapping with style as much as they delivered on ideas. Highly idiosyncratic yet intricately realized, accessible yet willing to overthrow the constraints of formal storytelling, surreal yet always grounded in human emotions, this new film movement captures the angst of its characters and the times in which we live, but with a wryness, imagination, earnestness, irony, and stylish wit that makes the slide into existential despair a little more amusing than it should be.</DIV></DIV> 2744320 1 9 2008 Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers total:6|5:2|4:2|3:1|1:1| 6 22 14 2 1 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 20:30:29 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 10:11:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 30 22:02:27 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 10:17:18 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 22:02:27 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Sep 05 08:30:58 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 06:04:11 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 08:30:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 25 14:29:46 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 14:29:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 17 12:19:27 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 12:19:27 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Feb 12 14:29:42 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 15:38:39 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 14:29:42 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Dec 18 00:20:32 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 00:20:35 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Oct 06 21:26:44 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 21:26:44 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Oct 05 11:42:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 11:42:00 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Aug 20 02:54:27 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 02:54:33 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat May 17 06:04:56 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 06:04:57 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri May 16 23:29:32 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 23:29:41 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri May 16 02:56:28 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 02:56:28 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 21:35:37 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 21:36:21 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2718723