The Making of Alternative Cinema [Two Volumes]

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Mario Falsetto, Liza Bear

Volume 1
Dialogues with Independent Filmmakers
Mario Falsetto
Volume 2
Beyond the Frame: Dialogues with World Filmmakers
Liza Béar

Book Code: C9941

ISBN: 0-275-99941-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99941-4

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704 pages, photos

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2007

List Price: $199.95 (UK Sterling Price: £115.00)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Endorsement From Bart Testa, University of Toronto: This is an extremely valuable book of interviews. Mario Falsetto's enthusiasm for his subject is always apparent. What he brings to these probing conversations is his thorough research on the films, his modestly phrased but pointed questions, and his generosity to the filmmakers.
Endorsement From William Rothman
Professor of Motion Picture and Video-Film
University of Miami
Author of Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze: There is no other book quite like it. Mario Falsetto is a masterful interviewer who consistently elicits thoughtful responses pitched at precisely the right level.

Description: The massive investments made in Hollywood today demand tight controls on mainstream cinema, which effectively dictate--and provide--exactly what the public wants to see...or else. Elaborate measures are thus taken everywhere and at all points to maintain a grip on the public's imagination, but the more adept Hollywood becomes at giving the public what it wants, the less any given studio is able to say anything new or truly innovative. As a result, one must often look to alternative outlets in otder to find a movie intended primarily as art--or even as a sincere effort at entertainment--instead of as a basic source of revenue. Inside of the United States, this means looking to independent films; outside of the United States, it means filtering through an enormous mass of movies and moviemakers. Foreign and independent movies often play the role of bellwether for Hollywood studios unable to experiment in new genres and styles: thus, behind the look of the studio smash Sin City, for instance, was the rigorous pulp style of Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition; before the sadism and cynicism of many current thrillers and horror movies (like American Psycho) there was the work of Neil Labute; and where would the domestic drama be without the crumbling relationships of Alexander Payne; where would Hollywood's plots be without the harsh, fragmented narratives of Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro Inarritu? In Volume 1 of this revealing set, Mario Falsetto presents extended interviews with nine of the most prominent independent film directors working in America today; while in Volume 2, Liza Bear gives prominent international filmmakers the opportunity to address essential issues surrounding creativity and production in a number of different geographical setting and contexts.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1
Dialogues with Independent Filmmakers
Mario Falsetto
Introduction
Sam Mendes, Boy Wonder Goes to Hollywood
Neil LaBute, Sexual Politics, Violence, and Mormons
John Dahl, Guns, Cars, and Fast Women: Film Noir and Other Genres
Gus Van Sant, Art and Commerce: A Constant Battle
Nancy Savoca, Ethnic Voices, Working Women, and the

Struggle to Make Movies

Anthony Minghella, Hollywood International, Epic Visions,

and a Love of Words

Alexander Payne, Nebraska Is a State of Mind

Michael Polish, Double Vision (and Imaginary Places)

Julie Taymor, Theater, Film, and the Power of the Imagination

Filmographies

Index

Volume 2
Beyond the Frame: Dialogues with World Filmmakers
Liza Béar
Foreword by Laurence A. Kardish
Introduction by Robin Andersen
Gleb Panfilov,Tema
Shawn Slovo, Writer, A World Apart
Chris Menges, Director, A World Apart
Atom Egoyan, Director, and Arsinée Khanjian, Actor, Speaking Parts
Brigitte Rouan, Outremer [Overseas]
Gillian Armstrong, The Last Days of Chez Nous
Lucian Pintilié, An Unforgettable Summer
Chantal Akerman, On the Set in Brooklyn
Abel Ferrara, The Addiction
Jafar Panahi, The White Balloon
Marleen Gorris, Antonia's Line
Benjamin Ross, The Young Poisoner's Handbook
Nicole Holofcener, Walking and Talking
Karim Dridi, Bye-Bye
Patrice Leconte, Ridicule
Milos Forman, The People vs. Larry Flynt
Jan Sverak,Kolya
Judy Davis, Children of the Revolution
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Gabbeh
Cédric Klapisch, Chacun Cherche Son Chat
Miguel Arteta, Star Maps
Masayuki Suo, Shall We Dance?
Shirley Barrett, Love Serenade
Rupert Graves, Profile
Jim Jarmusch, Year of the Horse
Alain Berliner, Ma Vie en Rose
Takeshi Kitano, Sonatine and Hana-Bi [Fireworks]
Wayne Wang, Chinese Box
John Hurt, Love and Death on Long Island
Sherman Alexie, Smoke Signals
Michael Winterbottom, Welcome to Sarajevo
Samira Makhmalbaf, The Apple
Samira Makhmalbaf, Blackboards
Fernanda Montenegro, Central Station
Catherine Breillat, Romance
Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke
Zhang Yimou, Not One Less
François Ozon, Criminal Lovers
François Ozon, Swimming Pool
Abbas Kiarostami, The Wind Will Carry Us
Abbas Kiarostami, ABC Africa
Wong Kar-wai, In the Mood for Love
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amores Perros
Agnès Varda, The Gleaners and I
Barbet Schroeder, Our Lady of the Assassins
Jacques Rivette, Va Savoir
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Kandahar
Wang Xiaoshuai, Beijing Bicycle
Tsai Ming-liang, What Time Is It There?
Laurent Cantet, L'Emploi du Temps [Time Out]
Fabián Bielinsky, Nine Queens
Juan Carlos Cremata, Nada
Elia Suleiman, Divine Intervention
Manoel de Oliveira, I'm Going Home
Denys Arcand, Barbarian Invasions
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, James' Journey to Jerusalem
Alan Mak, Andrew Lau, Infernal Affairs
Ousmane Sembène, Moolaadé
Ousmane Sembène, Transcript
Michael Winterbottom, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Bruno Dumont, Twentynine Palms
Zhang Yimou, Hero
Yacef Sâadi, The Battle of Algiers
Appendix 1:Filmakers by Continent and Country of Origin
Appendix 2: First Feature Films
Index

LC Card Number: 2007037156

LCC Class: PN1998

Dewey Class: 791

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