Few directors in the past three decades have produced movies more compelling, controversial, or confounding than David Lynch (b. 1946). And fewer still have been so reluctant to talk about what they do. In this collection, editor Richard A. Barney has chosen the rare interviews in which Lynch opens up to questions rather than deflecting them. Whether Lynch is talking about his ...(展开全部)

This is a rare collection of candid and articulate interviews with one of the most influential, yet controversial filmmakers of his generation. Few directors of the past 30 years have produced movies more compelling, controversial, or confounding than David Lynch. And fewer still have been as reluctant as Lynch to talk about what they do. Whether talking about his early film sh...(展开全部)

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-86) was considered by many to be one of Russia's most influential filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in 20 years. He was revered by such luminaries as Bergman and Kurosawa for his use of long takes, languid pacing, and meditations on spirituality and the human soul - as can be seen in his best known films, "Andrei Rublev" (1964-66) ...(展开全部)

"The assembly of pieces of i-- lm to create fright is the essential part of my job, just as a painter would, by putting certain colours together, create evil on canvas." Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) was one of the most interviewed directors in the history of i-- lm. Among the hundreds of interviews he gave, those in this collection catch him at key moments of transition in his ...(展开全部)

"For me, each shot is a living thing, with a breath of its own, that consists of inhaling and exhaling. this is a process that cannot accept my interference. it must have a natural opening and fading." Deeply rooted in the soil and culture of his native Greece, in its history, and in its contemporary political upheavals, Theo Angelopoulos (b. 1935) has chosen to make all his fi...(展开全部)

Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the “Mother of the New Wave” but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment in France. Varda's first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), displayed many of the cha...(展开全部)

Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed "film geek," with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, and imitated of all filmmakers. His dazzling, movie-informed work makes Quentin Tarantino's reputation, from his breakout film, Reservoir Dogs (1992), through Kill Bill: Vol...(展开全部)

【编者简介】 杰拉尔德·皮尔里（Gerald Peary），威斯康星大学传播学博士，萨福克大学荣誉教授，曾在罗格斯大学、波士顿大学等多所高校教授电影研究和编剧课程；知名影评人，密西西比大学出版社“电影人访谈录系列”主编。 【译者简介】 邵逸，南加州大学东亚研究中心硕士，译有《王家卫访谈录》《幻夜奇行：大卫·林奇谈电影》《小说的八百万种写法》《无法上映的54部电影》等。