This collection of interviews brings together major Hollywood directors and actors, independent filmmakers, screenwriters, and others to discuss the art, craft, and business of making movies. Whether it be Clint Eastwood or Francis Ford Coppola, Vittorio Storaro or Dede Allen, these filmmakers detail how they strive for quality, the price they pay to do so, and how new technologies and the business aspects of filmmaking impact all aspects of their creativity. Taken together, the interviews reveal much about filmmaking practices in and out of Hollywood.
The interviewees include Dede Allen, Robert Altman, Jamie Babbit, Don Bluth, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Downey Sr., Clint Eastwood, Atom Egoyan, Horton Foote, Stephen Frears, Barbara Hammer, Louis Malle, Sydney Pollack, Oliver Stone, Vittorio Storaro, Paul Verhoeven, and James Woods.
Contributors include Leo Braudy, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gerald Duchovnay, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Lester D. Friedman, Ric Gentry, Peter Harcourt, Wade Jennings, Robert P. Kolker, Richard A. Macksey, Mark Crispin Miller, Chris Shea, Scott Stewart, and Gerald C. Wood.
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List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Gerald Duchovnay
PART I. HOLLYWOOD VOICES
1. Robert Altman
Leo Braudy and Robert P. Kolker
2. Francis Ford Coppola
Ric Gentry
3. Sydney Pollack
Leo Braudy and Mark Crispin Miller
4. Clint Eastwood
Ric Gentry
5. Oliver Stone
Ric Gentry
PART II. INDEPENDENT VOICES
6. Barbara Hammer
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
7. Robert Downey Sr.
Wheeler Winston Dixon
8. Don Bluth
Gerald Duchovnay
9. Jamie Babbit
Wheeler Winston Dixon
PART III. INTERNATIONAL VOICES
10. Paul Verhoeven
Chris Shea and Wade Jennings
11. Stephen Frears
Lester D. Friedman and Scott Stewart
12. Atom Egoyan
Peter Harcourt
13. Louis Malle
Richard A. Macksey
PART IV. BEHIND—AND IN—THE SCENES
14. James Woods
Ric Gentry
15. Dede Allen
Ric Gentry
16. Vittorio Storaro
Ric Gentry
17. Horton Foote
Gerald C. Wood
List of Contributors
Index
Over de auteur
Gerald Duchovnay is Professor of English and Head of the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University at Commerce. He is general editor of the international film journal
Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities and author of
Humphrey Bogart: A Bio-Bibliography.