Collects together never before translated writings on Philippe Garrel's legendary film L'Enfant secret (The Secret Child) for the first time. Includes:- "The Wademant Notebook." Pre-screenplay for L'Enfant secret by Philippe Garrel. Translated into English for the first time by Nicholas Elliott.- "On L'Enfant secret." An interview with Philippe Garrel by Alain Philippon from Cahiers du Cinéma in 1983. Translated into English for the first time by Nicholas Elliott.- "Garden of Stone: Philippe Garrel's L'Enfant secret." An essay by Adrian Martin, newly updated by the author.- "L'Enfant secret - Philippe Garrel." - An essay by Serge Daney, new English translation by Nicholas Elliott.

L'Enfant Secret

Adrian Martin

Serge Daney

Philippe Garrel

The Film Desk

Between 1960 and 1976, The New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross wrote a series of articles for the magazine's "Talk of the Town" section covering François Truffaut's visits to New York: for The 400 Blows in 1960, The Soft Skin in 1964, The Wild Child in 1970, Day for Night in 1973, and Small Change in 1976. This book collects these articles together for the first time. Lillian Ross was a staff writer at The New Yorker. She wrote often about moviemakers-including Clint Eastwood, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Oliver Stone, Tommy Lee Jones, Wes Anderson, and Francis Ford Coppola. She lived in Manhattan and passed away in 2017 at the age of 99. Perfect bound softcover. 40 pages. "As modest in appearance as it is auspicious in substance."-Richard Brody, The New Yorker Click here to read Richard Brody's full review in The New Yorker

François Truffaut by Lillian Ross

Lillian Ross

"I want to be eighteen to live a life in New York. A magical, overwhelming, beautiful city. One of those fortunate cities that possess grace." - Pier Paolo Pasolini The Film Desk is proud to release its fourth publication: an in-depth interview with film director, poet, critic, and political activist Pier Paolo Pasolini, conducted in New York in 1969. In that year, Pasolini visited the city for the second time (his previous visit had been in 1966 for the New York Film Festival) and was interviewed by Guiseppe Cardillo, the longtime director of Instituto Italiano di Cultura of New York, for a wide ranging conversation in which he discusses his childhood, his move to Rome, religion, Jean-Luc Godard, Marxism and the sequence shot. The recording of this interview was completely unavailable to the public until it was recently discovered and rescued by Luigi Fontanella, a poet, novelist, Pasolini scholar and professor at SUNY Stony Brook. This book presents this historic interview in full, in a new translation from the Italian by Michael Palma, and with an extensive introduction by Luigi Fontanella. Perfect bound softcover. 76 pages. Edition of 500 copies.

Pasolini in New York

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Conversations with Kiarostami collects for the first time a far ranging series of interviews with the celebrated director Abbas Kiarostami by film critic, and Iranian cinema expert, Godfrey Cheshire. Conducted in the 1990s, these in-depth conversations offer a film-by-film account of Kiarostami's views of his artistic development from his first short "Bread and Alley" in 1970 to the 1999 feature The Wind Will Carry Us, covering his lesser known, and seldom written about, shorts from earlier in his career, along with the masterworks that made him world famous, such as the Koker Trilogy (Where Is the Friend's House?, And Life Goes On, Through the Olive Trees), Close-Up and Taste of Cherry. The book includes a Foreword by Ahmad Kiarostami, the director's son, as well as an introduction from Cheshire that contextualizes the interviews and discusses his relationship with the director. "During Godfrey's several visits to Iran throughout a decade, he formed a relationship with my father that I had rarely seen him having with other writers. I believe this is because of Godfrey's ability to go beyond the surface; his unique views and interpretations...It is well-known that Godfrey was one of he first people who introduced the Iranian cinema to America and, yet, there is no trace of the usual "exotic" approach...That is what you will find in this book: a refreshing conversation with Abbas that has substance, and is far from cliché."-Ahmad Kiarostami, from his foreword. Published by Woodville Press. Perfect bound softcover. 188 pages. Edition of 750. "For Kiarostami's own overview of his early career, I'd recommend Conversations with Kiarostami by the critic and filmmaker Godfrey Cheshire."-Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Conversations with Kiarostami

Arts & Photography

Godfrey Cheshire

Performing Arts

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L'Enfant Secret

François Truffaut by Lillian Ross

Pasolini in New York

Conversations with Kiarostami