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El cine al aire libre es una de esas actividades con la que es fácil cruzarse todos los veranos en algún pueblo, e incluso en grandes urbes. Las frescas noches de verano son la excusa perfecta para el cine a la luz de la luna. ¿De donde surge esta aficion por poner una pantalla en medio de una plaza y compartir la experiencia con amigos y vecinos? ¿Como se articula una proyeccion de cine de verano? ¿Cuales son los problemas a los que se enfrenta un equipo profesional de cine ambulante? En este libro, parcialmente autobiografico, trato de dar respuesta a todas estas cuestiones contando una historia del cine hasta hoy desconocida.

In this innovative book Julian Hanich explores the subjectively lived experience of watching films together to discover a fuller understanding of cinema as an art form and a social institution that matters to millions of people worldwide

A master filmmaker inimitable and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values Bunuel s method is free from all artifice and his honesty and humour are to extreme to accept any compromise in exposing our deceit and our decadence Like Pasolini his work offers a remarkably sophisticated political analysis but remains based in the essentially peasant values of storytelling and the purposefully unsystematic supervisions of laughter

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic Deleuzian and phenomenological exploration of Japan s finest currently working film director performer and celebrity The volume uniquely explores Kitano s oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement becoming animal melancholy and loss intensity schizophrenia and radical alterity and through the aesthetic temperatures of color light camera movement performance and urban and oceanic space In this highly original monograph all of Kitano s films are given due consideration including A Scene at the Sea 1991 Sonatine 1993 Dolls 2002 and Outrage 2010

Over one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens D W Griffith s controversial photoplay The Birth of a Nation continues to influence American film production and to have relevance for race relations in the United States While lauded at the time of its release for its visual and narrative innovations and a box office hit with film audiences it provoked African American protest in 1915 for racially offensive content In this collection of essays contributors explore Griffith s film as text artifact and cultural legacy and place it into both the historical and transnational contexts of the first half of the 1900s and its resonances with current events in America such as BlackLivesMatter HollywoodSoWhite and OscarsSoWhite movements Through studies of the film s reception formal innovations in visual storytelling and comparisons with contemporary movies this work challenges the idea the United States has moved beyond racial problems and highlights the role of film and representation in the continued struggle for equality This title is also available as an Open Access edition online at https iu pressbooks pub thebirthofanation

The definitive look at one of the most important Black art films and original filmmakers of the 1970s Bill Gunn s Ganja & Hess 1973 has across the decades attained a sizable cult following among African American cinema devotees art house aficionados and horror fans thanks to its formal complexity and rich allegory Pleading the Blood is the first full length study of this cult classic Ganja & Hess was withdrawn almost immediately after its New York premiere by its distributor because Gunn s poetic re fashioning of the vampire genre allegedly failed to satisfy the firm s desire for a by the numbers blaxploitation horror flick for quick sell off in the urban market Its current status as one of the classic works of African American cinema has recently been confirmed by the Blu ray release of its restored version by its continued success in screenings at repertory houses museums and universities and by an official remake Da Sweet Blood of Jesus 2014 directed by Spike Lee one of the original picture s longtime champions Pleading the Blood draws on Gunn s archived papers screenplay drafts and storyboards as well as interviews with the living major creative participants to offer a comprehensive absorbing account of the influential movie and its highly

In each of his films Wes Anderson builds entire worlds that fans tend to feel somehow really should exist Discover the rich veins of inspiration that he weaves into this unique magic Anderson s colorful and richly structured style is universally admired but how has he managed to create such an enigmatic visual signature Like many key creatives he s found inspiration in a huge host of varied influences From Hitchcock and Spielberg to Truffaut and Varda there are countless filmic homages and references scattered throughout Anderson s filmography while his cultural anchor points also go deep beyond film and into the worlds of art and literature Evocations of place and time also underpin his work from mid century Paris in The French Dispatch to grand pre war Europe in The Grand Budapest Hotel while cultural institutions such as Jacques Cousteau and The New Yorker magazine are other touchstones For Wes Anderson fans and cinephiles alike uncover the fascinating creative process of one of the world s most revered filmmakers

The first edited collection of critical essays on American filmmaker Richard Linklater

The first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta Findlay

Presents a portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene This book offers a comprehensive biography of Sembene and contributes a critical appraisal of his life and art in the context of the political and social influences on his work

The mercurial Danish director of Dogville Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves offers his inimitable views on life and art in this fascinating opinionated and witty addition to Faber s Directors on Directors series Lars Trier affected the lordly von in his name while still a film student in homage to such great movie makers of the past as von Sternberg and von Stroheim His own brilliant directing career has been marked by similarly grand ambitions and he is unique in having premiered all of his features from the highly styled The Element of Crime to the digital video originated The Idiots at the Cannes Film Festival Trier is a rare item in contemporary cinema a restless innovator and polemicist as his participation in the back to basics Dogme95 movement attests and these conversations with Stig Bjorkman author of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen trace the evolution of his career and thought in a manner that is both astonishingly detailed and engagingly humorous

Terrence Malick s debut film Badlands announced the arrival of a unique talent In the 40 years since that debut Malick has only made 5 films but they are distinctive in their beauty This book is not meant to be a biography of Terrence Malick The purpose behind the book is to introduce readers to the extraordinary universe of his film making and to aid them in understanding his work And to do this through the words of his closest collaborators cinematographers set designers costumers cameramen directors producers and actors such as Sean Penn Martin Sheen Sissy Spacek and Jessica Chastain As their words flow from one to another they form a fascinating kaleidoscopic vision of American film and specifically Malick s artistic world who make up a film This book is the fruit of a journey began years ago when Luciano Baracaroli Carlo Hintermann Gerardo Panichi and Daniele Villa made a documentary on the work of Terrence Malick which led to the making of this book as well

Ther book investigates contemporary women directors who put a poetics of horror to new use in their work expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre

Get an intimate look at the cult filmmaker of our generation Packaged in a handsome slipcase and loaded with stunning pictures from the Kobal archives this biography explores the genesis of Tarantino s unique directorial style and provides insight into his inspirations and his frequent collaborations with favoured actors An 8 page foldout timeline presents Tarantino s entire filmography in the heart of the book Through in depth and informative text written by renowned film journalist Ian Nathan this book examines the entirety of Tarantino s work including his early writing on screenplays such as True Romance and Natural Born Killers his break out directorial debut Reservoir Dogs and the career defining Pulp Fiction as well as his later iconic films such as Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained You ll also go behind the scenes of Tarantino s latest epic Once Upon a Time in Hollywood As you make your way through Tarantino s incredible career discover what inspired him his working methods and the breadth of his talent With a visually arresting design that mimics Tarantino s approach to film making and chapters organized by film the pages are brimming with images taken on set and behind the scenes This is the ultimate celebra

Nicolas Roeg is one of the most distinctive and influential film makers of his generation The generation of film makers who define contemporary movie making Danny Boyle Kevin Macdonald The Last King of Scotland Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight James Marsh Man on Wire and Guillermo Del Toro Pan s Labyrinth all acknowledge their debt to the work of Nicolas Roeg Roeg began as a cameraman working for such masters as Francois Truffaut and David Lean His explosive debut as a director with Performance established an approach to film making that was unconventional and ever changing creating works such as Don t Look Now The Man Who Fell to Earth Bad Timing Insignificance and more recently Puffball Having now reached eighty years of age Roeg has decided to pass on to the next generations the wealth of wisdom and experience he has garnered over fifty years of film making

Documentary films are the rock and roll of our times Why are they made Who are in the tribe of documentary film makers Do their films really change the world Eighteen years ago Nick Fraser created BBC Storyville producing films that won Oscars BAFTAs and Peabody Awards He found film makers from all across the world covering important subjects in documentaries In Say What Happened he describes the frenzied intense world of documentary film making tracing its history back to the early pioneers such as Dziga Vertov and his ground breaking Man with a Movie Camera The book deals with the British documentary tradition founded by John Grierson and discusses the work of American masters such as the Maysles brothers Frederick Wiseman and D A Pennebaker as well as Europeans such as Marcel Ophuls Claude Lanzmann Chris Marker and Werner Herzog He interviews acclaimed documentary film makers and discusses the work of Ken Burns Errol Morris and Joshua Oppenheimer among others across the globe as well as listing his top one hundred documentaries and where readers can watch them In a world beset with fake news he argues documentaries are better at getting at the verities about life and death and that the new journalism will come from films made using n

This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro s career from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963 focusing on Ozu s depiction of the everyday life and experiences of ordinary Japanese people during a time of depression war and economic resurgence

Werner Herzog s protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world the Americas have provided the setting and subject matter for iconic works ranging from Aquirre The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo to Grizzly Man Joshua Lund offers the first systematic interpretation of Werner Herzog s Americas themed works illuminating the director s career as a political filmmaker a label Herzog himself rejects Lund draws on materialist and post colonial approaches to argue that Herzog s American work confronts us with the circulation distribution accumulation application and negotiation of power that resides quietly at the center of his films By operating beyond conventional ideological categories Herzog renders political ideas in radically unfamiliar ways while fearlessly confronting his viewers with questions of world historical significance His maddeningly opaque viewpoint challenges us to rethink discovery and conquest migration and exploitation resource extraction slavery and other foundational traumas of the contemporary human condition

The definitive study of the great filmmaker set in the context of Russian cultural history