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Un documentalista que realiza parábolas, un católico que ataca a la Iglesia, un realista que representa la conciencia, un novelista des- confiado de la palabra escrita, un fabulador que desvela los mecanismos de la represen- tacion... Pocos directores tanUn documentalista que realiza parábolas, un católico que ataca a la Iglesia, un realista que representa la conciencia, un novelista des- confiado de la palabra escrita, un fabulador que desvela los mecanismos de la represen- tacion... Pocos directores tan complejos y tan dificiles de definir como Ermanno Olmi (Treviglio, 1931), cineasta italiano de larga trayectoria pero apenas conocido en España a pesar de obras maestras como El empleo (1961), I fidanzati (1963) o El arbol de los zuecos, galardonada con la Palma de Oro en el Festival de Cannes de 1978.Pensador humanista de multiples facetas, poeta de la imagen en movimiento, Erman- no Olmi ha mantenido a lo largo de su fil- mografia un equilibrio extraordinario entre el compromiso con el hombre de su tiempo y la experimentacion con las formas audio- visuales. El tiempo de la conciencia. Las ficcio- nes de Ermanno Olmi propone un recorrido por el curso de su pensamiento a traves de sus veinte peliculas de ficcion, las que trans- curren entre su opera prima Il tempo si e fermato en 1959 y su ultima pelicula hasta la fecha, Il villaggio di cartone en 2011. Desde el terreno del documental a la ficcion y desde el clasicismo a la modernidad, sus peliculas atraviesan con una personalidad inconfundible el neorrealismo, el cine ensa- yo, el cine de la conciencia, el regreso a la pureza de la imagen, el simbolismo, la para- bola o el cine didactico de invencion rosselli- niana.

George Lucas nos explica cómo Star Wars cambió la forma de comunicar un mensaje, y con ello somos testigos de la creación de un mito en la mitología moderna. También profundiza y nos habla sobre el desarrollo de su carrera, su vision sobre los estudios de cine, las corporaciones, la libertad y las restricciones sobre el arte. Y sus diferencias con respecto al resultado de Star Wars VII: El despertar de la Fuerza.

Michael Cimino es un cineasta de genio, uno de los más brillantes y radicales directores de la historia del cine. También uno de los más incomprendidos y vilipendiados por la crítica institucional. Su mundo es delicado y duro al mismo tiempo, inocente y barbaro, tierno y brutal, y de ese desequilibrio no desiste. Basta con ver a sus personajes y la puesta en escena para percatarse del omnipresente "tour de force" que atraviesa su filmografia: lo que Bataille denominaba "violencia". El polvo que fulgura y nubla la vista (la vision del espectador) en sus peliculas es una de las formas de la materia mas queridas por el director, y el fracaso, mas que un avatar biografico, es el principio formal que mantiene su cine siempre en tension y lo que hara que perdure.

Este libro no aspira a ser na revisión exhaustiva de su obra, porque no hay marco ni matriz para un hombre exhausto. Cada uno de los textos aquí reunidos opera en su individualidad y en su conjunto, arman un caleidoscopio o un collage, y alientan el acercamiento a un cuerpo de trabajo que insiste en derramarse

George Lucas pertenece a la misma generación de Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese o Brian De Palma, y sus primeras realizaciones participan de las mismas inquietudes de aquellos; los integrantes del llamado Nuevo Hollywood intentaron llevar a cabo una profunda renovacion de la industria, sin por ello darle la espalda. El exito planetario del tercer largometraje de Lucas consiguio plenamente este proposito, aunque no de la manera en que habia soñado la mayoria. "La guerra de las galaxias" marca un antes y un despues en la historia de Hollywood y, por extension, en la propia historia del cine. Tras aquella inesperada incursion en una galaxia lejana, muy lejana, nada volveria a ser igual.

«Buñuel detestaba las entrevistas, sentía horror por ese aparato electrónico llamado magnetofón y por la forma “fálica” (decía) de los micrófonos. Sin embargo, un día, a finales de 1974, en una de es

Heredero estilístico de los grandes directores de "blockbusters" surgidos en el seno del Nuevo Hollywood, J. J. Abrams habita un espacio a caballo entre el cine y la televisión, como creador de artefactos narrativos singulares y revitalizador del genero fantastico de corte "mainstream". Si sus productos catodicos han sido parte fundamental de las recientes "edades de oro" de las series televisivas, en la gran pantalla Abrams propugna un estilo opuesto a la frenetica hiperfragmentacion imperante en las grandes superproducciones de los años noventa y principios del siglo XXI. Frente a estos, el cine de Abrams se muestra claramente deudor de la "escuela Amblin" liderada por Steven Spielberg al sustentarse en dos pilares: la claridad y fluidez de su narrativa visual y un habil uso de los registros y herramientas del melodrama.

This book collects the best artwork from the first five years of "Bad Dads," an annual exhibition of art inspired by the films of Wes Anderson. Curated by Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco, "Bad Dads" has continued to grow and progress and has featured work from more than four hundred artists. From paintings to sculptures to limited-edition screen prints, the artworks vary greatly in style, but share the imagery and beloved characters from the mind of one of Hollywood's most noteworthy and imaginative filmmakers. The book features an original cover by graphic artist Max Dalton, a foreword by writer and director Wes Anderson himself, and an introduction by TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz, author of the bestselling Wes Anderson Collection books.

Who s your favourite character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe Whether you like Super Heroes or villains the movies or TV series learn all about them in this updated edition Now including more than 200 characters from Black Panther and Ms Marvel to Iron Man and Shang Chi The Marvel Studios Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition is any young fan s go to guide to find out all about the heroes villains spies school kids scientists aliens inventors and others in the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU Discover their strengths super powers friends allies weapons epic battles and much more Dive into the action with 90 new pages covering characters from recent movies and Disney series including Black Panther Wakanda Forever Shang Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness Black Widow Thor Love and Thunder Ms Marvel WandaVision Loki The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Hawkeye Ant Man and The Wasp Quantumania and Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 2024 MARVEL

Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood s first truly independent producer directors Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction The Man with the Golden Arm and homosexuality Advise and Consent Preminger broke the censorship of the Hollywood Production Code and the blacklist while creating some of Hollywood s most enduring film noir classics Chris Fujiwara s critical biography the first in more than thirty years follows Preminger throughout his varied career penetrating his carefully constructed public persona and revealing the many layers of his work

Exploring Mamardashvili s extensive philosophical output as well as a range of recent Russian films Alyssa DeBlasio reveals the intellectual affinities amongst directors of the Mamardashvili generation including Alexander Sokurov Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov

In The Phenomenology of Religious Belief the renowned philosopher Michael J Shapiro investigates how art and in particular literature and film can impact upon both traditional interpretations and critical studies of religious beliefs and experiences In doing so he examines the work of prolific and award winning writers such as Toni Morrison Philip K Dick and Robert Coover By placing their work in conjunction with critical analyses of media by the likes of Ingmar Bergman and Pier Paolo Pasolini and combining it with the work of groundbreaking thinkers such as George Canguilhem Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj iek Shapiro takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to the question of how life should be lived His assessment of phenomenological subjectivity also leads him to question the nature of political theology and extend the criticism of Pauline theology

Twelve years ago Amores Perros erupted in the cinemas across the world and announced the arrival of Mexican film makers The film makers profiled in that book have now come of age and have made a decisive impact on the international cinema scene The last few years Mexican film makers winning the Best Director Oscars 5 times and Best Picture 4 times Alfonso Cuaron with Gravity and Roma Alejandro Inarritu with Birdman and The Revenant Guillermo del Toro with The Shape of Water This revised edition of The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema brings this astounding story up to date as well as profiling the next generation waiting in the wings

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

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

This comprehensive and in depth study delves into the life and works of the most famous director who has ever lived Steven Spielberg Spielberg is the medium s defining artist the embodiment of the Hollywood ideal the commercial potential of film married to its creative possibilities He s widely popular but he s also a stylist and far darker than he is given credit for Often it is this very darkness that speaks to us But it s also his incredible knack for telling stories with lightness that speaks to millions by mixing the extraordinary with the ordinary His leading characters even Indiana Jones are marked by their vulnerability their mistakes their yearning It s the human touch There are so many parts to Spielberg s story the suburban background that supplied the films with a biographical streak the collaborations with George Lucas and the Movie Brats in general with composer John Williams producer Kathleen Kennedy editor Michael Khan stars Richard Dreyfus Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks and mogul and mentor Sid Sheinberg The myths that bloomed from the making of these films The nightmare shoot and stubborn shark behind Jaws The strange ambitions of Close Encounters Dive bombing with 1941 Inventing Indiana Jones Re inventing the blockbuste

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