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Action!

Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran

Bert Cardullo editor Gary Morris editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Anthem Press

Published:1st Feb '09

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Action! cover

Draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’.

‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died.

‘Action!’ presents nineteen outstanding interviews with directors past and present, from around the world, working in a variety of genres, budgets and production environments from major studios to indie and DIY. The result is a vibrant group portrait of the filmmaking art, a kind of festival in words that explores everything from the enormous creative and personal satisfactions to the challenges and frustrations of the process.

'Utterly engaging… ‘Action!’ [is] a wide-ranging and exemplary collection.' —Richard Brody, ‘The New Yorker’

ISBN: 9781843313120

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 26mm

Weight: 454g

370 pages