Film Voices

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Description

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.

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

Sujets

• Performing arts
• History of film
• Entertainment
• Media

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9780791484753
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

FilmVoices

EDITED BY Gerald Duchovnay

Interviews fromPost Script

FILM VOICES

T H ES U N YS E R I E S CULTURAL STUDIES IN CINEMA/VIDEO

W H E E L E R W I N S T O N D I X O N

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FILM VOICES  Interviews fromPost Script

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G E R A L D D U C H O V N A Y

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

© 2004 State University of New York andPost Script, Inc.

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Duchovnay, Gerald, 1944– Film voices : interviews from Post Script / by Gerald Duchovnay. p. cm. — (SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0791461556 — ISBN 0791461564 (pbk.) 1. Motion pictures—Production and direction. 2. Motion picture producers and directors—United States—Interviews. 3. Motion picture producers and directors—Interviews. I. Title. II. Series.

PN1995.9.P7D76 2004 791.4302'3—dc22

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2003066185

Dedicated to the Memory of

Arthur Stander Charles Mazer Robert E. Waxman

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C O N T E N T S

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List of Illustrationsxi

Preface

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Acknowledgmentsxv

Introduction1 G ERALD D UCHOVNAY

PART I. HOLLYWOOD VOICES

C H A P T E R O N E 17 Robert Altman L EO B RAUDY AND R OBERT P. K OLKER

C H A P T E R T W O 33 Francis Ford Coppola R IC G ENTRY

C H A P T E R T H R E E 51 Sydney Pollack L EO B RAUDY AND M ARK C RISPIN M ILLER

C H A P T E R F O U R Clint Eastwood R IC G ENTRY

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C H A P T E R F I V E Oliver Stone R IC G ENTRY

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PART II. INDEPENDENT VOICES

C H A P T E R S I X 109 Barbara Hammer G WENDOLYN A UDREY F OSTER

C H A P T E R S E V E N 129 Robert Downey Sr. W HEELER W INSTON D IXON

C H A P T E R E I G H T 143 Don Bluth G ERALD D UCHOVNAY

C H A P T E R N I N E 153 Jamie Babbit W HEELER W INSTON D IXON

PART III. INTERNATIONAL VOICES

C H A P T E R T E N 169 Paul Verhoeven C HRIS S HEA AND W ADE J ENNINGS

C H A P T E R E L E V E N 195 Stephen Frears L ESTER D. F RIEDMAN AND S COTT S TEWART

C H A P T E R T W E L V E Atom Egoyan P ETER H ARCOURT

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C H A P T E R T H I R T E E N Louis Malle R ICHARD A. M ACKSEY

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PART IV. BEHIND—AND IN—THE SCENES

C H A P T E R F O U R T E E N James Woods R IC G ENTRY

C H A P T E R F I F T E E N Dede Allen R IC G ENTRY

C H A P T E R S I X T E E N Vittorio Storaro R IC G ENTRY

C H A P T E R S E V E N T E E N Horton Foote G ERALD C. W OOD

List of Contributors

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