Interviews with Film Directors

Andrew Sarris, one of the most influential of the younger critics at the time this book was written, gathered interviews with forty of the central figures of modern film-making, discussing their own work and the film as an art form. The directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Peter Brook, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, George Cukor, Clive Donner, Carl Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Buster Keaton, Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, David Lean, Joseph Losey, Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamoulian, Max Ophuls, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sam Peckinpah, Abraham Polonsky, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Satyajit Ray, Leni Riefenstahl, Jean Renoir, Alain Resnais, Roberto Rossellini, Josef von Sternberg, Erich von Stroheim, Preston Sturges, Francois Truffaut, Orson Welles. "More inside information on film directing than has ever been previously assembled in a single volume. The interviewers' exceptional familiarity with the medium visibly stimulates the director to greater articulateness about his craft." Cover......Page 1 Back Cover......Page 2 Contents......Page 8 Fall and Rise of the Film Director, The......Page 10 Michelangelo Antonioni......Page 22 Ingmar Bergman......Page 34 Robert Bresson......Page 47 Peter Brook......Page 52 Luis Bunuel......Page 66 Claude Chabrol......Page 76 Charles Chaplin......Page 87 George Cukor......Page 93 Clive Donner......Page 128 Carl Dreyer......Page 141 Sergei Eisenstein......Page 165 Federico Fellini......Page 176 John Ford......Page 194 Jean-Luc Goddard......Page 203 Howard Hawks......Page 229 Alfred Hitchcock......Page 242 John Huston......Page 254 Buster Keaton......Page 275 Akira Kurosawa......Page 288 Fritz Lang......Page 310 David Lean......Page 317 Joseph Losey and Nicholas Ray......Page 323 Ernst Lubitsch......Page 336 Rouben Mamoulian......Page 343 Max Ophuls......Page 351 Pier Paolo Pasolini......Page 367 Sam Peckinpah......Page 372 Abraham Polonsky......Page 385 Otto Preminger......Page 399 Satyajit Ray......Page 414 Jean Renoir......Page 420 Alain Resnais......Page 435 Leni Riefenstahl......Page 454 Roberto Rossellini......Page 475 Josef von Sternberg......Page 480 Erich von Stroheim......Page 501 Preston Sturges......Page 512 Francois Truffaut......Page 521 Orson Welles......Page 529