Michael Haneke Over the course of extensive conversations with French film critics Michel Cieutat and Philippe Rouyer, 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 his creative practice: from the structure of…
Pierre Rissient 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 group in 1950s Paris to his rediscovery of…
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…
James Naremore Part memoir, part critical inquiry, Cinema Then and Now is a wide-ranging conversation with distinguished film scholar and critic James Naremore, in conversation with Craig S. Simpson. 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…
Jonathan Rosenbaum Jonathan Rosenbaum stands as one of the most eminent film critics in the English-speaking world. After working for Sight and Sound and Monthly Film Bulletin in London in the 1970s, he served for two decades as chief film critic for the Chicago Reader. Hailed as “one of the best” by Jean-Luc Godard, who…
Patrick McGilligan Still Film Crazy (After All These Years) is an informal sequel to Film Crazy, his earlier collection of interviews featuring some of the most famous names of the Golden Age. Spanning fifty years of reportage, these conversations date back to the 1970s, and include Ken Russell, Ralph Bakshi, Peter Weir and Oliver Stone,…
Nathan Réra Expertly steered by Nathan Réra, these conversations showcase Chazelle’s deep and wide-ranging knowledge of cinema history and his mastery of film-making technique. They guide the reader from Chazelle’s little-seen debut, the student feature film Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (featuring music by his Harvard roommate-turned regular composer, Justin Hurwitz), through his…
Brian De Palma Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Mission: Impossible and Carlito’s Way. Brian De Palma might have directed some of the most potent and stylish movie dramas of the last half century, but his lack of diplomacy and constant challenging of conventions have forever condemned him to the margins of the American…
Michel Ciment In A Shared Cinema, legendary French critic Michel Ciment, in conversations with N. T. Bihn, takes us on a journey through his life, beginning as a film-obsessed youngster in 1950s Paris and early experiences in the United States and as a teacher, through to his long-standing association with Positif magazine, his seminal interview…