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Moviemakers' Master Class

by Laurent Tirard

Type
Interviews
Subject
Director
Keywords
interviews, director
Publishing date
2003
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Paperback • 240 pages
5 ½ x 8 ¼ inches (14 x 21 cm)
ISBN-10
ISBN-13
0-571-21102-X
978-0-571-21102-9
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Book Presentation:
From Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard: interviews with twenty of the world’s greatest directors on how they make films – and why.

Each great film-maker has a secret method to his moviemaking – and each is different. In Moviemakers’ Masterclass, Laurent Tirard talks to an illustrious collection of today’s greatest directors to get to the core of their approach to cinema. The results shed a unique light upon the mysteries of the directorial process. Martin Scorsese, we learn, likes setting up each shot very precisely in advance. Lars von Trier, on the other hand, refuses to think about a set-up until the day of filming. And Bernardo Bertolucci tries to dream his shots the night before . . .

Other directors featured include Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, the Coen brothers, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Wong Kar-Wai.

About the Author:
Laurent Tirard was born in 1967. He studied film-making at New York University, from which he graduated with honours in 1990. After a year as a script reader for the Warner Bros. Studio in Los Angeles, he became a journalist for the French film magazine Studio. There, over the course of seven years, he screened and reviewed more than a…

Press Reviews:
"What a pleasure to read so much straight talk about filmmaking from these masters of the craft. Each interview is brimming with insight-- and honesty." —Leonard Maltin

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