Over the last century, film actors from Charlie Chaplin and Lillian Gish to Meryl Streep and Jeff Daniels have spoken about the art and technique of playing to the camera. This fascinating anthology of their "insiders" observations will delight film lovers and aspiring film actors everywhere. The book has been edited by four leading film and theater historians, who have brought together selections from periodicals and books (some no longer in print), had some statements or conversations translated into English for the first time, and conducted new interviews with working actors. The book is divided into four parts―"The Silent Performance," "Finding a Voice," "European Acting," and "Hollywood Acting"―each of which is introduced by a brief commentary. This chronological and topical structure allows one actor to talk or argue with another as they offer astute―and often contradictory―opinions on a broad range of theoretical concerns. Among the issues they discuss are stage versus screen performance, the spiritual, emotional, and psychological underpinnings of the actor’s art, and the performer’s response to technical demands and other exigencies of filmmaking. The book, which also includes an insightful general introduction, film biographies of the actor-authors, and aptly chosen movie stills, is an essential resource―one that gives us, says Stanley Kauffmann, "the mapping of a new territory in art."

Playing to the Camera: Film Actors Discuss Their Craft

Humor & Entertainment

Cardullo, Bert

Movies

Yale University Press

In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art

The essays collected here reflect the spectacular rise of Iranian cinema in recent years as well as the strong contributions of contemporary filmmakers from countries such as Belgium, Canada, China, Israel, Lebanon, Scotland, and Spain. But In Search of Cinema does not neglect the best recent films from major film-producing nations like the United States, France, and Italy and includes retrospective pieces on the careers of Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen as well as several essays on the interrelationship between film form, or film genres, and drama and the novel, the two forms from which the cinema continues to draw a wealth of its material.

McGill-Queen's University Press

The essays collected here reflect the spectacular rise of Iranian cinema in recent years as well as the strong contributions of contemporary filmmakers from countries such as Belgium, Canada, China, Israel, Lebanon, Scotland, and Spain. But In Search of Cinema does not neglect the best recent films from major film-producing nations like the United States, France, and Italy and includes retrospective pieces on the careers of Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen as well as several essays on the interrelationship between film form, or film genres, and drama and the novel, the two forms from which the cinema continues to draw a wealth of its material.

Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists (Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema)

In 'Soundings on Cimena', film critic Bert Cardullo engages nine major international film directors - Antonioni, Bergman, Bresson, De Sica, Felini, Kaurismaki, Leigh, Renoir and Syberberg - in a series of dialogues about how they work and the meanings of their films.

Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists (SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema)

State Univ of New York Pr

Focusing on practical matters related to filmmaking-acting, design, cinematography, directing, writing, and editing, World Directors in Dialogue: Conversations on Cinema collects probing interviews with 13 major international directors. Representing Italy, France, Belgium, England, Iran, China, India, and Japan, these artists answer questions about how they work, the meanings of their movies, and the relationship of their pictures to other directors' films as well as to other arts.Some of the most acclaimed directors in the world are featured here, including Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon), Satyajit Ray (Aparajito, Pather Panchali), Luchino Visconti (Death in Venice, The Leopard), Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Under the Olive Trees), Ermanno Olmi (The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Il Posto), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (L'Enfant, La Promesse), Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, To Live), Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake), and Ken Loach (Kes, Raining Stones). This collection also includes the final interviews with Eric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, My Night at Maud's) and François Truffaut (The 400 Blows, Day for Night), as well as a rare interview with Jacques Tati (Mon Oncle, M. Hulot's Holiday).With a complete filmography for each director, as well as detailed bibliographies and a comprehensive index, World Directors in Dialogue is a book to which one can return again and again for insights, anecdotes, and a vision of what it was to be an auteur in the 20th century and beyond.

World Directors in Dialogue: Conversations on Cinema

Scarecrow Press

At a time when movie reviews have degenerated into mere publicity and film scholarship has become entangled in pedantic discourse, close readings of major directing careers and significant films are a needed alternative. In European Directors and Their Films: Essays on Cinema, Bert Cardullo analyzes of some of the most important film artists and individual films of the last several decades. Beyond simple biographical capsules and plot summaries, these readings demonstrate with elegance and clarity what cinema means as well as what it shows, explaining how international moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex, significant human goals.In this volume Cardullo offers fresh perspectives on some of the established greats of European cinema—including Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine, Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.), Federico Fellini (I Vitelloni, La Strada, Nights of Cabiria), Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game), Robert Bresson (L’Argent), Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot’s Holiday), Ingmar Bergman (Winter Light, Autumn Sonata), Eric Rohmer (A Tale of Winter), and Roman Polanski (The Pianist)—as well as insights into vital work by such contemporary filmmakers as Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher), Sergei Bodrov (Prisoner of the Mountains), Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (La Promesse, The Son, L’Enfant), Andrei Kravchuk (The Italian), and Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days).Including essays on filmmakers from continental Europe, Russia, and Scandinavia, this engaging companion to World Directors and Their Films will appeal to general readers as well as scholars of international cinema.

European Directors and Their Films: Essays on Cinema

Indelible Images

Film criticism today needs educated analysis without blinkered doctrine, seriousness without pomposity, insight without crankiness. All these virtues Bert Cardullo brings to his book, plus a passion for film that enlightens his views of the masterworkshe examines. Welcome to Indelible Images.

University Press of America

The Film Criticism of Vernon Young is a collection of Young's work subsequent to the publication of On Film (1970-1986) and of his early essays and reviews not included in that book (1949-1961). At first a novelist, a director for theater and radio, and an actor in those mediums as well as occasionally in the movies, Young made his mark as a freelance critic of film, art, and literature and as a book reviewer. He contributed to a number of publications, among them The Kenyon Review, The American Scholar, The Sewanee Review, Ten New Criterion, and The Hudson Review, for which journal he became the regular film critic in 1955. He published two books of film criticism in his lifetime: Cinema Borealis: Ingmar Bergman and the Swedish Ethos (1971) and On Film: Unpopular Essays on a Popular Art (1972). The latteró nominated for a National Book Awardówas made up of pieces that had originally appeared in several magazines, The Hudson Review prominent among them.

The Film Criticism of Vernon Young

Theatrical Reflections consists of essays on such plays as Hamlet, Leonce and Lena, Curse of the Starving Class, The Birthday Party, The Knight of Olmedo, and Androcles and the Lion in addition to reviews of productions of The Servant of Two Masters, Yerma, The Threepenny Opera, Caligula, and Wings, among other works. The author's focus in his essays is on dramatic analysis that ultimately can be of benefit to directors, designers, and even actors - that is, with analysis of character, action, language, and setting that can be translated into viable concepts for theatrical production. In the case of reviews, of course, he is concerned with evaluating the actual concepts behind various theatrical productions. Most of the plays considered here are regularly produced, and it is the goal of this book to make some contribution to their future staging.

Theatrical Reflections: Notes on the Form and Practice of Drama (American University Studies)

P. Lang 1992; c

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Playing to the Camera: Film Actors Discuss Their Craft

In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art

In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art

Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists (SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema)

World Directors in Dialogue: Conversations on Cinema

European Directors and Their Films: Essays on Cinema

Indelible Images

Indelible Images

The Film Criticism of Vernon Young

Theatrical Reflections: Notes on the Form and Practice of Drama (American University Studies)