“[For] anyone who cares about visionary filmmaking… This set of interviews, remarkable for their candor and depth…is always interesting and ultimately inspiring.”
—Total Film (London)

In this collection of recent, in-depth conversations, seventeen of today’s most original independent filmmakers candidly discuss their creative visions, their careers, and the state of today’s film industry.

MICHAEL ALMEREYDA (Nadja, Hamlet)
ANNA CAMPION (Loaded)

TERENCE ADVIES (The House of Mirth, Distant Voices, Still Lives)
TOM DICILO (Living in Oblivion, Box of Moonlight)

ATOM EGOYAN (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter)
KEITH GORDON (Mother Night, Waking the Dead)

NICHOLAS HYTNER (The Madness of King George, Center Stage)
NEIL JORDON (The Crying Game, The Butcher Boy)

RICHARD LINKLATER (Slacker, Dazed and Confused)
ALISON MACLEAN (Crush, Jesus’ Son)

JOHN MCNAUGHTON (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Wild Things)
MICHAEL RADFORD (Il Postino, Nineteen Eighty-Four)

PHILIP RIDLEY (The Passion of Darkly Noon, The Reflecting Skin)
BENJAMIN ROSS (The Young Poisoner’s Handbook, RKO 281)

ALAN RUDOLPH (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Trixie)
LYNNE STOPKEWICH (Kissed, Suspicious River)

MICHAEL TOLKIN (The Rapture, The New Age)

Michael Falsetto is Professor of Film Studies and MA Program Director (Film Studies) at Concordia University in Montreal, where he has taught cinema for more than twenty years, and a former president of the Film Studies Association of Canada. He is the author of Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis and the editor of Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick.