Projections 9: French Film-Makers on Film-Making (No. 9)

"This issue of Projections celebrates French cinema by using the interviews conducted by Positif magazine with the major French film-makers of the past 50 years. The book presents a panorama of French cinema ranging from the aesthetic masterpieces of Robert Bresson to the searing aggression of Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine, including along the way the masters of the French New Wave: Alain Resnais, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol. Over the past 50 years French cinema has exhibited an incredible ability to renew itself and to not only flourish in the face of competition from English-language film-making, but also to create masterpieces of cinema unparalleled anywhere in the world, and this collection of interviews sheds new light on the reasons behind this resilience."-- Provided by publisher A celebration of French cinema, drawn from the pages of Positif magazine.This issue celebrates French cinema using the interviews conducted by Positif with the major French filmmakers of the past fifty years. It presents a panorama of French cinema ranging from the aesthetic masterpieces of Robert Bresson to the searing aggression of Mathieu Sassovitz's La Haine, including along the way the masters of the French New Wave: Alain Resnais, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol. Over the past fifty years, French cinema has exhibited an incredible ability to renew itself, and not only to flourish in the face of competition from English-language filmmaking, but also to create masterpieces of cinema. A celebration of French cinema which uses interviews conducted by Positif with major film-makers of the past 50 years. The book presents a panorama ranging from the aesthetic works of Robert Bresson to the aggression of Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine, as well as masters of the French New Wave.