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| Eye on the World |
| Conversations
with International Filmmakers |
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| Judy Stone, 826 pages, 8x10, illus., 1-879505-36-3,
$35.00 paper |
“Judy Stone knows about movies, she knows
about politics, she knows about life. Here,
in this informative and entertaining book, she
brings it all together.
—Jules Feiffer
“In an age obsesses with trivia and celebrity,
Judy Stone’s interviews are the perfect antidote.”
—Adrienne Mancia, Curator, Department of
Film and Video, The Museum of
Modern Art
“Judy Stone has an eye for movies and a
nose for politics. Her interviews are not
just good journalism (and terrific reading), they
belong to film history as well.”
—J. Hoberman, film critic, Village Voice
“A stunning collection of interviews with
the best filmmakers of our time by one of America’s
outstanding journalists. Judy Stone has the
unusual gift of easily entering into the minds
of these directors, with the result that she stimulates
them into making highly original comments. I
learned much from this book.”
—Daniel Talbot, President, New Yorker Films
“Judy Stone’s
bright, exuberant, revealing conversations illuminate more about American and
foreign filmmaking than any scholarly tome or deadly
serious exegesis about “the
cinema.” Sometimes funny, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, but always knowledgeable
and intelligently written, these pieces offer fascinating observations,
remarkable insights, and engaging commentary about the inevitable struggle
to make films that are honest and entertaining and, yes, that also
sell. A remarkable collection.”
—Lawrence K. Grossman, Former President of PBS and NBC News and author
of
The Electronic Republic
“A rarity among those who write about film,
Judy Stone has a genuine and all-too-rare curiosity
about the world—not ONLY the “world of film.” She’s
got a tremendous knack for getting people to open
up and talk about themselves and their work—and
that usually makes her interviews keenly rewarding.”
—Peter Scarlet, Artistic Director, San Francisco
International Film Festival
“When other film journalists were chasing
down stars to interview, Judy Stone went after
directors, usually of so-called foreign films. There
probably isn’t another writer in this country
who could have put together this anthology of dispatches
from the front lines of film making.”
—Jay Carr, critic, The Boston Globe |
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More
than 200 filmmakers from forty countries are included
in this unique and engrossing look at cinema around
the world. They are profiled in discussions
with Ms. Stone that get to the heart of these artists’ works
and their underlying views of the world—the
political and cultural contexts—that inform
their works.
Definitely
not a dry-as-dust academic survey, this inviting
and enlightening blend of conversations and commentaries,
most of which are drawn from the author’s
long-running film column for the San
Francisco Chronicle, is a must-read
for all who enjoy intelligent filmmaking.
Among
the filmmakers included are Alfonso Arau, Richard
Attenborough, Hector Babenco, Bernardo Bertolucci,
Kenneth Branagh, Luis Buñuel, Chen Kaige, Francis
Ford Coppola, Constantin Costa-Gavras, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, Federico Fellini, Milos Forman,
Jean-Luc Goddard, Agnieszka Holland, Neil Jordan,
Philip Kaufman, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Akira Kurosawa,
Spike Lee, Miki Leigh, George Lucas, Dusan makavejev,
Nikita Mikhalkov, Mira Nair, Jan Nemec, István Szabó, Bertrand Tavernier, François
Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda, Peter Weir, Wim Wenders, Lina Wertmüller, and
Zhang Yimou.
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Judy Stone has been writing about
international cinema for the San
Francisco Chronicle and other publications,
including The New York Times and Ramparts, for
forty years. She is the author of The
Mystery of B. Traven. |
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