Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview

Jason Wood

Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-1-904764-90-8
$25.00

October, 2006
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-1-904764-91-5
Wallflower Press
$80.00

"British Writer, programmer and filmmaker Jason Wood's collection of 31 interviews with an international cast of writers and directors is a discerning look into the minds and motivations of some of cinema's brightest talents. Wood's Q&As, many reprinted from various outlets, provide interesting anecdotes about the creative process... Readers and cinephiles should be grateful that Wood takes pains to showcase international masters along with several filmmakers who are still waiting to be discovered - Asif Kapadia, Samira Makhmalbaf, and Elia Sulieman for example... With luck, another collection, updated for a new crop of filmmakers, will be published soon." — Gary M. Kramer, Filmbill

"Talking Movies is an indispensable volume that should be considered a set text for arts journalists (both budding and professional) trying to master the methodology behind achieving the most revealing and entertaining interviews possible." — David Jenkins, Time Out

"Impressive and enlightening." — Movie Maker

Related Subjects

• Film

About the Author

Jason Wood is a film programmer, documentary filmmaker, and writer. He is the author of Contemporary Mexican Cinema and has been published in Vertigo, the Guardian, and Sight and Sound.

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