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9780823059713

Writers on Directors

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  • ISBN13:

    9780823059713

  • ISBN10:

    0823059715

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-07-01
  • Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns
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Summary

For serious as well as casual film buffs, this exciting collection of essays on today's most important filmmakers is essential reading. Readers can delight in Susan Gray's inspired photos of the normally behind-the-camera directors, and in insightful essays by well-known writers. 35 photos, 25 in color.

Table of Contents

Foreword 10(4)
Leonard Maltin
Introduction 14(2)
Roman Polanski
16(6)
Ariel Dorfman
Norman Jewison
22(4)
William Goldman
Alan Rudolph
26(3)
Tom Robbins
Ron Shelton
29(5)
David Weddle
Jonathan Demme
34(4)
Edwidge Danticat
Oliver Stone
38(3)
Tobias Wolff
Wes Craven
41(4)
Bruce Wagner
Carl Franklin
45(4)
Russell Banks
Rob Reiner
49(4)
William Goldman
Amy Heckerling
53(3)
Wendy Wasserstein
Gus Van Sant
56(5)
Katherine Dunn
Kenneth Branagh
61(3)
Scott Frank
John Woo
64(3)
John Ridley
Hector Babenco
67(4)
Ricardo Piglia
Jean-Jacques Annaud
71(5)
Catherine Texier
Herbert Ross
76(6)
Michael Cristofer
Martin Brest
82(3)
Bo Goldman
Stephen Frears
85(4)
Donald E. Westlake
Penelope Spheeris
89(4)
Mike Werb
Phillip Noyce
93(4)
Damian Sharp
Agnieszka Holland
97(4)
Richard Lourie
Michelangelo Antonioni
101(4)
Seymour Chatman
Lawrence Kasdan
105(3)
Adam Brooks
Ron Howard
108(3)
Walter Mosley
Richard Donner
111(3)
Brian Helgeland
Terry Gilliam
114(4)
Jack Womack
Martha Coolidge
118(3)
Darryl Ponicsan
Bernardo Bertolucci
121(5)
Joan Juliet Buck
James Cameron
126(5)
John Shirley
John Schlesinger
131(4)
Michael Cunningham
Paul Verhoeven
135(5)
Bruce Benderson
Milos Forman
140(5)
Michael Weller
Robert Altman
145(4)
Michael Tolkin
Sidney Lumet
149(4)
Peter Blauner
Neil Jordan
153(4)
Patrick McCabe
David Cronenberg
157(4)
Norman Snider
William Fredkin
161(3)
Joe Eszterhas
Sydney Pollack
164(4)
Thomas Caplan
Roger Corman
168(4)
Steven Gaydos
Michael Mann
172(5)
Michael Sragow
Credits 177(4)
Index 181

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