Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers

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A rich companion volume to George Stevens, Jr.'s much admired book of American Film Institute seminars with the pioneering moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age, this time with a focus on filmmakers of the 1950s to present day. The Next Generation brings together conversations with moviemakers at work from the 1950s-during the studios' decline-to today's Hollywood. Directors, producers, writers, actors, cinematographers, composers, film editors, and independent filmmakers appear within these pages, including Steven Spielberg, Nora Ephron, George Lucas, Sidney Poitier, Meryl Streep, David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, and more. We see how the filmmakers of today and those of Hollywood's Golden Age face the same challenges of both art and craft-to tell compelling stories on the screen. And we see the ways in which actors and directors work together, how each director has his or her own approach, and how they share techniques and theories. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by Bob Gazzale Introduction by George Stevens, Jr. Robert Altman Darren Aronofsky Peter Bogdanovich Charles Champlin Shirley Clarke Anne Coates Roger Corman Ed Emshwiller Nora Ephron Morgan Freeman William Friedkin Larry Gelbart Charlton Heston Janusz Kaminski Jack Lemmon George Lucas David Lynch James Mangold Alan Pakula Gregory Peck Arthur Penn Sidney Poitier Sydney Pollack David Puttnam Leonard Rosenman John Sayles Paul Schrader Neil Simon Steven Spielberg Meryl Streep Robert Towne François Truffaut Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Sources Index