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Read Instead…in Print
Samuel Fuller was an original. Facts were the bedrock of his stories. He was after the truth, nice or ugly, just as in journalism, and gave it to you straight. But he put just as much imagination into his characters and action. His extraordinary autobiography, A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking, offers a great insight into original filmmaking. Read More
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When François Truffaut talks about his films, he makes you present to their making. In light of this, his films become even more special. Because Truffaut lived through films and for making films. The book Truffaut on Cinema is an artistic autobiography, gathering the interviews of the filmmaker presented chronologically by film. Read More
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There is just one such moment in an artist’s life and Oliver Stone builds that moment up with all the personal fervor, rawness and freedom he has shown in his movies. Chasing the Light is the story up until that brief year of 1986, the year when Salvador hit theaters and Platoon soon followed, when he was the unknown, the elusive, the unexpected. Read More
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Read instead…in print #21: J’ai connu une belle époque, Jacques Deray Read More
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Satyajit Ray wrote his own dialogue (scored his films and often designed their publicity materials as well), but his films rose above the words, as he believed a film should be conveyed in images as much as possible. Satyajit Ray’s films are like that, striking this incredible balance between sound and image and containing moments of purely visual significance. Read More
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