Michael Haneke Conversations with Michel Cieutat and Philippe Rouyer Translated by Paul Cronin Over the course of extensive conversations with two French film critics, Austrian director Michael Haneke reflects on his five decades of work across film, theatre and television. Avoiding interpretation and resisting moral conclusions, Haneke instead offers a precise and revealing account of…
Peter Cowie In Flashbacks, Peter Cowie tells his story with the same clarity, curiosity and quiet authority that have made him one of cinema’s most respected chroniclers. From his postwarn childhood in the English countryside to decades spent in screening rooms, studios and film festivals around the world, Cowie reflects on a life shaped by…
Preston Sturges Introductions by Jay RozgonyiForeword by Tom Sturges O Brother, What Might Have Been opens a hidden door into the creative world of Preston Sturges, one of the great originals of American cinema, the trailblazing writer-director whose comedies The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels and The Palm Beach Story brought a new sophistication to Hollywood…
John Bleasdale Jonathan Glazer has created some of the most unforgettable images in twenty-first-century cinema. From the dreamlike menace of Sexy Beast to the haunting abstractions of Under the Skin and the chilling banality of evil in The Zone of Interest, his films blend surreal intensity with razor-sharp formal control. But Glazer’s world doesn’t stop…
Pierre Rissient Conversations with Samuel Blumenfeld Translated by Paul Cronin Mister Everywhere is a vivid, globe-spanning portrait of Pierre Rissient—filmmaker, producer, talent scout, and cinephile nonpareil—told in his own words. In these wide-ranging conversations with Le Monde critic Samuel Blumenfeld, Rissient reflects on a life lived entirely for cinema: from his days with the Mac-Mahon…
Luke McKernan What do moving images mean? How and why do they work? In sixty short, engaging essays film archivist, curator, historian and writer Luke McKernan looks at 140 years of a bewitching medium, focussing on the importance of stories and form in shaping the moving images on our screens. Luke McKernan presents a collection…
Anthony Ray “Written when I was 21, this is my recollection of experiences I had as a 12- and 13-year-old. The events contained in this work led to my being traumatized for over fifty years.” June 10, 1950. 12-year-old Tony Ray leaves behind his single mother and their drab Manhattan apartment and flies to Los…
Leonard Maltin and Nat Segaloff They say that everybody has two professions: whatever they do for a living, plus being a film critic. For sixty years, Leonard Maltin has happily combined both. Starting when he was 13, Maltin turned a childhood love of movies into a career as a film historian, writer, interviewer, teacher, and…
Caveh Zahedi With his characteristic candor, wit, and steadfast belief in radical honesty, this collection of personal essays, critical reviews, and selected diary entries from Caveh Zahedi takes the reader on an itinerant tour through subjects as varied as his own artistic and spiritual journey, his trials and tribulations in the indie film world, encounters…
James Naremore Conversations with Craig S. Simpson Part memoir, part critical inquiry, Cinema Then and Now is a wide-ranging conversation with distinguished film scholar and critic James Naremore. In this book-length interview, he reflects on his youth, education, and decades as a writer and teacher, before turning to questions that have shaped his career and…