Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden

Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute

The first book to bring together these interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Instituteâ€™s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners.

Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang (â€œI learned only from bad filmsâ€), William Wyler, and George Stevens; renowned producers and cinematographers; celebrated screenwriters Ray Bradbury and Ernest Lehman; as well as the immortal Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini (â€œMaking a movie is a mathematical operation. Itâ€™s absolutely impossible to improviseâ€). Taken together, these conversations offer uniquely intimate access to the thinking, the wisdom, and the genius of cinemaâ€™s most talented pioneers.

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	9781400033140
Color	Tan
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Height	8
Length	5.19
Weight	1.54984970186
Width	1.83
ReleaseDate	2007-02-13
NumberOfItems	1

Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute