Peter Bogdanovich

Edited by Peter Tonguette
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Before he was the Academy Award-nominated director of The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich (1939–2022) interviewed some of cinema's great masters: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and ...

Alexander Payne

Edited by Julie Levinson
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Since 1996, Alexander Payne (b. 1961) has made seven feature films and a short segment of an omnibus movie. Although his body of work is quantitatively small, it is qualitatively impressive. His movies ...

Bertrand Tavernier

Edited by Lynn A. Higgins & T. Jefferson Kline
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Bertrand Tavernier (1941–2021) was widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s in the wake of the New Wave. In just over forty ...

Woody Allen

Edited by Robert E. Kapsis
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

This revised and updated edition gathers interviews and profiles covering the entire forty-five-year span of Woody Allen's career as a filmmaker, including detailed discussions of his most popular as ...

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Edited by Renata Bernard & Steven Woodward
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Krzysztof Kieslowski's untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europe's ...

Todd Haynes

Edited by Julia Leyda
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

A pioneer of the New Queer Cinema, Todd Haynes (b. 1961) is a leading American independent filmmaker. Whether working with talking dolls in a homemade short (Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story) or with ...

Kathryn Bigelow

Edited by Peter Keough
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. Since then she has also filmed history with her movie, ...

Harmony Korine

Edited by Eric Kohn
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine's stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice. Bringing together interviews collected from over two decades, this unique chronicle ...

D. A. Pennebaker

Edited by Keith Beattie & Trent Griffiths
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D. A. Pennebaker (b. 1925) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s to the present day, D. A. Pennebaker ...

Agnes Varda

Edited by T. Jefferson Kline
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the “Mother of the New Wave” ...