True to its title, this book offers Martin Scorsese in his own words. The result is an insight into a body of work that is the most personal achievement in modern American cinema. Scorsese proves himself to be an articulate artist, whether recounting the many battles to get his movies made, his supreme passion for the medium of film itself, or the roots of his long-time creativ...(展开全部)

True to its title, this book offers Martin Scorsese in his own words. The result is an insight into a body of work that is the most personal achievement in modern American cinema. Scorsese proves himself to be an articulate artist, whether recounting the many battles to get his movies made, his supreme passion for the medium of film itself, or the roots of his long-time creativ...(展开全部)

Martin Scorsese's challenging and often controversial films are a record of the most personal achievement in modern American cinema. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Gooodfellas--these titles conjure up a world and a style of filmmaking that he has made his own, one of a savage beauty of great intensity and truth. The interviews which make up this book chart the journey...(展开全部)

Martin Scorsese's challenging and often controversial films are a record of the most personal achievement in modern American cinema. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Gooodfellas--these titles conjure up a world and a style of filmmaking that he has made his own, one of a savage beauty of great intensity and truth. The interviews which make up this book chart the journey...(展开全部)

Wilson is a sophisticated and marvelously humane writer. His vision is a liberating one, and a reader of this splendid book comes away with a sense of the kinship that exists among the people, animals, and insects that share the planet. (New Yorker 20041219) Compellingly interesting and enormously important...The most stimulating, the most provocative, and the most illuminating...(展开全部)

Now fully updated, LYNCH ON LYNCH describes the career of a cinematic genius who has continued to astonish film-goers with the lovely and life-affirming The Straight Story and the luxurious dread of the Academy Award-nominated Mulholland Drive.

Wilson is a sophisticated and marvelously humane writer. His vision is a liberating one, and a reader of this splendid book comes away with a sense of the kinship that exists among the people, animals, and insects that share the planet. (New Yorker 20041219) Compellingly interesting and enormously important...The most stimulating, the most provocative, and the most illuminating...(展开全部)

The major writings of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), with the exception of the letters, are collected here along with transcriptions of important interviews and broadcasts given at various stages of Matisse's career. Jack Flam provides a biography, a general introduction that addresses the development of Matisse's aesthetic values and theories, and a critical introduction for each ...(展开全部)

Classic of biology and modern science sets forth seminal "theory of transformation" -- that one species evolves into another not by successive minor changes in individual body parts but by large-scale transformations involving the body as a whole. Rich literary style. Over 500 photographs and drawings. Index.

Wittgenstein's work remains, undeniably, now, that off one of those few philosophers who will be read by all future generations.