Title:
Cinematic encounters : interviews and dialogues / Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Author:
Rosenbaum, Jonathan, author, interviewer.
Publication Information:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Call Number:
PN1994 .R567 2018
Abstract:
"Godard. Fuller. Rivette. Endfield. Tarr. In his celebrated career as a film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum has undertaken wide-ranging dialogues with many of the most daring and important auteurs of our time. [This book] collects more than forty years of interviews that embrace Rosenbaum's vision of film criticism as a collaboration involving multiple voices. Rosenbaum accompanies Orson Welles on a journey back to Heart of Darkness, the unmade film meant to be Welles's Hollywood debut. Jacques Tati addresses the primacy of décor and soundtrack in his comedic masterpiece PlayTime, while Jim Jarmusch explains the influence of real and Hollywoodized Native Americans in Dead Man. By arranging the chapters chronologically, Rosenbaum invites readers to pursue thematic threads as if the discussions were dialogues between separate interviews. The result is a rare gathering of filmmakers trading thoughts on art and process, on great works and false starts, and on actors and intimate moments."--Back cover of trade paperback edition.
ISBN:
9780252042164
9780252083884
9780252050909
Physical Description:
279 pages ; 23 cm.
General Note:
Collection of previously published essays and interviews, from 1972-2009.
Contents:
Introduction: in defense of critical interactivity -- The voice and the eye: a commentary on The heart of darkness script -- Tati's democracy -- Paris journal on Stavisky -- Show business in the end: interview with Jim McBride -- Phantom interviewers over Rivette -- "Conversation" with Paul Morrissey -- Geraldine Chaplin interview (from London Journal) -- Obscure objects of desire: a jam session on non-narrative -- Sam Fuller spills his guts -- Catching up with Godard -- A lesson in modesty: speaking with Alain Resnais -- Cinema at a distance: interview with Peter Gidal -- The "presents" of Michael Snow -- Ivan the bearable: Ivan Passer on Cutter's way -- Just Jost -- On location with John Carpenter's The thing -- Jackie Raynal -- Documentary expressionism: the films of William Klein -- Pages from the Endfield file -- The Seberg we missed: interview with Mark Rappaport -- A gun up your ass: interview with Jim Jarmusch -- Trailer for Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema -- Falling down, walking, destroying, thinking: a conversation with Béla Tarr -- Trying to catch up with Raúl Ruiz -- A handful of world: the films of Peter Thompson.
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