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Abraham Polonsky: Interviews

Albert and David Maysles: Interviews

Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews

Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews

Anthony Minghella: Interviews

Arthur Penn: Interviews

Atom Egoyan: Interviews

Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews

Billy Wilder: Interviews

Brian De Palma: Interviews

Buster Keaton: Interviews

Carlos Saura: Interviews

Charles Burnett: Interviews

Charlie Chaplin: Interviews

Clint Eastwood: Interviews

Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised And Updated

The Coen Brothers: Interviews

D. W. Griffith: Interviews

Danny Boyle: Interviews

David Lean: Interviews

David Lynch: Interviews

Dennis Hopper: Interviews

Elia Kazan: Interviews

Eric Rohmer: Interviews

Errol Morris: Interviews

Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews

François Truffaut: Interviews

Frank Capra: Interviews

Fred Zinnemann: Interviews

Fritz Lang: Interviews

George A. Romero: Interviews

George Cukor: Interviews

George Lucas: Interviews

George Stevens: Interviews

Guy Maddin: Interviews

Hal Ashby: Interviews

Howard Hawks: Interviews

Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

James Cameron: Interviews

Jane Campion: Interviews

Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews

Jim Jarmusch: Interviews

John Ford: Interviews

John Huston: Interviews

John Sayles: Interviews

John Singleton: Interviews

John Waters: Interviews

John Woo: Interviews

Jonathan Demme: Interviews

Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews

Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews

Lars von Trier: Interviews

Liv Ullmann: Interviews

Martin Ritt: Interviews

Martin Scorsese: Interviews

Merchant-Ivory: Interviews

Michael Powell: Interviews

Michael Winterbottom: Interviews

Mike Leigh: Interviews

Neil Jordan: Interviews

Oliver Stone: Interviews

Orson Welles: Interviews

Ousmane Sembène: Interviews

Pedro Almodóvar: Interviews

Peter Greenaway: Interviews

Quentin Tarantino: Interviews

Ridley Scott: Interviews

Robert Aldrich: Interviews

Robert Altman: Interviews

Robert Rodriguez: Interviews

Roger Corman: Interviews

Roman Polanski: Interviews

Sam Peckinpah: Interviews

Samuel Fuller: Interviews

Sidney Lumet: Interviews

Spike Lee: Interviews

Stanley Kubrick: Interviews

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews

Steven Spielberg: Interviews

Terry Gilliam: Interviews

Theo Angelopolous: Interviews

Tim Burton: Interviews

William Wyler: Interviews

Woody Allen: Interviews

Words into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System

Working with Walt: Interviews with Disney Artists

Zhang Yimou: Interviews

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On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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