Film World: The Directors' Interviews

by Michel Ciment, Julie Rose (Translator)

Film World brings together key interviews with cinema's leading directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most influential film-makers of the last 50 years. All have been selected because of their cinematic vision, because they have a particular way of seeing the world and of filming it. All have created a body of work which is both hugely popular and critically acclaimed.

This truly global range of directors hails from Australia, Britain, China and Hong Kong, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, North America, Poland, and Russia. Together, these illuminating interviews reveal how these visionary directors create images which speak to audiences the world over.

The interviews are Bernardo Bertolucci, John Boorman, Robert Bresson, Jane Campion, John Cassavetes, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wong Kar-wei, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Takeshi Kitano, Im Kwon-taek, Mike Leigh, Manoel de Oliveira, Satyajit Ray, Martin Scorsese, Andrei Tarkovsky, Lars von Trier, Zhang Yimou

384 pages, Hardcover

First published November 25, 2008

About the author

Michel Ciment was a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine Positif. He was a Chevalier of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, and the president of FIPRESCI. Ciment was noted for his love for American film, somewhat unusual in his French cultural environment.

Michel Ciment est un critique de cinéma et rédacteur en chef du magazine de cinéma Positif. Il est Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres et président de la FIPRESCI. Ciment est connu pour son amour pour le cinéma américain, quelque peu inhabituel dans son environnement culturel français.

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[Bahman Bahman · Rating 2 out of 5]

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