Books

Edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue
Projections is a forum for practitioners of the cinema to write about their work. The first issue includes a journal compiled by John Boorman which records his responses to the events and trends of 1991, and their implications for the future of cinema. Like his Emerald Forest diary, Money into Light, it is a fascinating mix of anecdote, personal reflections, thoughts on the nature of cinema, and comments on the practical business of making films.Read More »

Contents
Foreword by John Boorman, vi
Introduction by Michel Ciment, vii

1 Robert Bresson: L’Argent, I
2 Eric Rohmer: Conte d’ete, 13
3 Claude Chabrol: La Ceremonie, 18
4 Alain Resnais: On connait la chanson, 26
5 Louis Malle: Au revoir les enfants, 33
6 Alain Cavalier: Therese, 51
7 Claude Sautet: Un Coeur en hiver, 64
8 Maurice Pialat: Van Gogh, 70
9 Bertrand Tavernier: Un Dimanche ala campagne, 83
10 Claude Miller: Garde a vue, 93
11 Patrice Leconte: Ridicule, 103
12 Marcel Ophuls: Hotel Terminus, 111
13 Otar Iosseliani: Les Favoris de la lune, 123
14 Olivier Assayas, 132
15 Catherine Breillat: 36 fillette, 138
16 Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Delicatessen, 144
17 Robert Guediguian: Marius et Jeannette, 152
18 Arnaud Desplechin: La Sentinelle, 160
19 Manuel Poirer: Western, 167
20 Jacques Audiard: Un Heros tres discret, 175
21 Mathieu Kassowitz: La Haine, 183Read More »

Published by Fontana Paperbacks (Flamingo), 1985 (285p.)
Originally published in France as Mon dernier soupir, 1982

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‘Covers everything from his Surrealist days with Dali to his method of making the perfect dry martini, and is as elegant, wise and mischievous as his movies’
J.G. Ballard

‘My Last Breath is pure delight… It’s as funny and provocative as the old chien’s best movies: than which there’s no higher praise’
Salman RushdieRead More »

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Mondo Cane in 1962 was the blueprint for a shocking, controversial and influential documentary film cycle. Known collectively as “mondo films” or “shockumentaries,” this enduring series of films is a precursor of the reality TV show.

A box-office draw for three decades and now a staple of the video rental market, these explosive “exposés” would often pass fabricated scenes as fact in order to give the public a sensationalist, highly emotive view of the world.

Sweet & Savage is the first-ever English-language book devoted exclusively to the mondo documentary film. A study of mondo as a global film phenomenon, it includes a detailed examination of the key films and includes exclusive interviews with the godfathers of this cult genre.Read More »

Book Description
This is the best-known biography of the film giant, based on extensive interviews with Ray himself, his actors, collaborators, and a deep knowledge of Bengali culture. This second edition contains extensive new material covering Ray’s final three films made in 1989-1991, a discussion of his artistic legacy, and the most comprehensive bibliography of Ray’s own writings.

Andrew Robinson, who had been a friend of Ray’s, spent a number of years working on this, and his account of Ray’s family and childhood draws upon interviews and conversations, supplemented with material from Ray’s own CHILDHOOD DAYS, MY YEARS WITH APU, and other sources. Robinson paints a portrait of a Calcutta overflowing with creative potential – Ray’s family connections to Tagore are also detailed, as are the accomplishments of his father and grandfather, and the intellectual independence of his mother, who seemed to strongly influence at least a few of his cinematic characters.Read More »

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Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies–part autobiography, part film analysis, part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America’s most gifted film critics, began his moviegoing in the 1950s in small-town Alabama, where his family owned and managed a chain of theaters.Read More »

Currently film critic at the Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum has written for a variety of film journals for more than 20 years. Collected in Movies as Politics are more than three dozen essays focusing on political statements of modern film. Covered are such topics as racial stereotyping in the movies, the emergence of films and filmmakers from the Third World, and the cinematic treatment of historical events, such as the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the Holocaust. It’s not all heavy going, either. Rosenbaum’s essays on Forest Gump, Ace Ventura, and the influence of Miramax are both informative and entertaining, if at times scathing.Read More »

Originally released in 1970 under the title “Cinema d’hier, cinema d’aujourd’hui”. This is the 1972 English translation.Read More »

Book Summary:
Tracing the work of Luis Bunuel, Jacques Prevert, Nelly Kaplan, Walerian Borowcyzk, Jan vankmajer, Raul Ruiz and Alejandro Jodorowsky, this book charts the history of surrealist filmmaking in both Europe and Hollywood from the 1920s to the present day. At once a critical introduction and a provocative re-evaluation, “Surrealism and Cinema” is essential reading for anyone interested in surrealist ideas and art and the history of film. Read More »