Cinematic Encounters: Interviews and Dialogues (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252083884)

Godard. Fuller. Rivette. Endfield. Tarr. In his celebrated career as a film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum has undertaken wide-ranging dialogues with many of the most daring and important auteurs of our time.

Cinematic Encounters collects more than forty years of interviews that embrace Rosenbaum's vision of film criticism as a collaboration involving multiple voices. Rosenbaum accompanies Orson Welles on a journey back to Heart of Darkness, the unmade film meant to be Welles's Hollywood debut. Jacques Tati addresses the primacy of d馗or and soundtrack in his comedic masterpiece PlayTime, while Jim Jarmusch explains the influence of real and Hollywoodized Native Americans in Dead Man. By arranging the chapters chronologically, Rosenbaum invites readers to pursue thematic threads as if the discussions were dialogues between separate interviews. The result is a rare gathering of filmmakers trading thoughts on art and process, on great works and false starts, and on actors and intimate moments.

Author: Jonathan Rosenbaum
ISBN-10: 0252083881
ISBN-13: 9780252083884
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2018
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/19/2018