TVDM 21500: Fiction Field Production

The first issue includes a journal compiled by John Boorman which records his responses to the events and trends of 1991, and their implications for the future of cinema. Like his Emerald Forest diary, Money into Light, it is a fascinating mix of anecdote, personal reflections, thoughts on the nature of cinema, and comments on the practical business of making films. Projections also contains contributions from cinematographer Nestor Almendros, who describes the craft of photographing the human face, and from Jonathan Demme, who traces the evolution of his career from his early days with Roger Corman to his chilling Silence of the Lambs. River Phoenix and Gus Van Sant discuss their work together on My Own Private Idaho; there is a script from one of the most original talents in American today, Hal Hartley, and a penetrating account by director Michael Mann of his startling new version of Last of the Mohicans.

Projections 2 highlights Robert Altman, whose film The Player restored him to his proper place in cinema's pantheon. Actor Tim Robbins, who memorably incarnated Griffin Mill in The Player, has written, directed and acted in Bob Roberts, the script of which is printed here in full. And another actor, Willem Dafoe, describes how he approaches his craft. There are also pieces by Belgian director Jaco van Dormael, New Zealand director Alison Maclean and Australian director George Miller, who charts the journey he has made from Mad Max to the (then) eagerly awaited Lorenzo's Oil. Finally, Bertrand Tavernier's diary records the evolution of his controversial film L627 against the shifting European cultural landscape.

The centrepiece of this issue is the journals of Francis Ford Coppola, whose films, such as the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, are considered masterworks of contemporary cinema. This volume also contains articles by leading film-makers about the state of the art at this moment. Included in this volume: Francis Ford Coppola - Journals 1989-1993 Chen Kaige on Chinese Cinema Sydney Pollack on Directing Actors Allan Starski - Art Direction: Wajda to Spielberg Hal Willner - Making Music for Short Cuts Michael Almereyda on Pixelvision Kasdan on Kasdan Michael Tolkin on Screenwriting Art Linson on Producing Quentin Tarantino - The Director as Writer Sally Potter - Orlando Diary Gus Van Sant on Hollywood Richard Stanley - Dust Devil Diary Hal Hartley - Flirt Zrinko Ogresta - Cry from Croatia.

When the door of the Lumiere factory opened to release the workers, it was more than just the end of the day - it was the beginning of a brand new art form that has shaped the consciousness of the twentieth century. This very first moment of the very first film gave birth to other moments that are cherished in the recollections of people all over the world. In this issue we collaborated with the French film magazine Positif. The centrepiece of this issue came to us from Positif. For their 400th issue Positif asked the film-makers with whom they had forged a special relationship over the past forty years to write about the films, directors and actors who have had a special significance for them. An array of seventy international film-makers - including Altman and Angelopoulos, Chabrol and the Coens, Eastwood and Frears, Kazan and Kieslowski, Leigh and Loach, Makavejev and Marker, Ophuls and Penn, Resnais and Rohmer, Rosi and Rudolph, Tavernier and the Tavianis, Varda and Zulawski, among others - responded, and we present this treasure trove of film-making comment as a way of celebrating the 100 years of cinema. 1995 was also the centenary of Buster Keaton. In honour of this, Kevin Brownlow - noted film-maker, historian and restorer of the silent cinema - recounts the making of Keaton's masterpiece, The General.

Projections is a forum for film-makers in which the practitioners of cinema write about their craft. In this edition we celebrate the centenary of film with articles ranging from an interview with Louis Lumiere - the inventor of the cinema - to James Toback's tales of contemporary Hollywood. Included in Projections 4: Louis Lumi#65533;re - Founding Father Martin Scorsese - Anamorphobia James Toback - A Journal for 1994 Penn on Penn Ken Burns - Raising the Dead Sidney Howard - The Gone with the Wind Letters and The Story Gets a Treatment Louis Malle, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Fred Berner, Larry Pine - Chekhov's Children Walter Murch - Sound Design: The Dancing Shadow Eddie Fowlie - Playing Cowboys and Indians John Seale - Lunch and a Book Gene Kelly - An American in Paradise Sally Potter - The Tango Lesson Federico Fellini - Creation and the Artist Viggo Mortensen - Missing Sandy Dennis Lindsay Anderson - On John Ford This edition also includes contributions by Percy Adlon, Kevin Brownlow, Roger Corman, Alex Cox, Andre de Toth, Nora Ephron, Monte Hellman, Huang Mingchuan, Richard Lowenstein, Dusan Makavejev, Arthur Penn, Vincent Sherman, Istvan Szabo, Michael Tolkin, Vincent Ward and Fred Zinneman.

With particular emphasis on animation, this fifth of a series in which film-makers discuss their art includes an extensive interview with Nick Park, the double-Oscar-winning creator of the Wallace and Gromit films. There is also an interview with the American animator, Henry Selick, creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas, and a piece about the founding figure of stop-motion animated film, Ray Harryhausen. Other pieces include an article by Freddie Young, who discusses his work as a cameraman on Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, notes by Eleanor Coppola about the making of The Godfather III and Dracula, and coverage of Quentin Tarantino's encounter with Brian De Palma. The book looks to the past with veteran director Fred Zinneman, and to the future with Tod Haynes's Safe.

Containing the series of Masterclass lectures given at the 1995 Edinburgh Film Festival, this book includes Robert Towne talking about Chinatown, the Coen brothers discussing their films, screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico talking about working with Visconti, and Walter Murch discussing the editing of Fred Zinnemann's Julia. There are also contributions from Stephen Soderbergh and Susan Sarandon, and the veteran film-maker Stanley Donen recalls a career which includes Singin' in the Rain and other Gene Kelly musicals. The diary is by Taiwanese film-maker Edward Yan, and also featured is George Lucas, creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

Founding father / Louis Lumière with Georges Sadoul -- The burning question: what is the greatest gift or the worst legacy of the movies? -- Anamorphobia / Martin Scorsese with Gregory Solman -- Divisions and dislocations: a journal for 1994 / James Toback -- Penn on Penn; interview / with Tom Luddy and David Thomson -- Raising the dead / Ken Burns with David Thomson -- Letters home 1937-1939 / Sidney Howard -- The story gets a treatment / Sidney Howard -- Chekhov's children- in their own words / edited by Oren Moverman -- Sound design: the dancing shadow / Walter Murch -- Playing cowboys and Indians / Eddie Fowlie with John Boorman -- Lunch and a book; observations on director/camerman relations / John Seale -- An American in Paradise: Gene Kelly / edited by Graham Fuller -- The tango lesson / Sally Potter -- Creation and the artist / Federico Fellini with Damien Pettigrew -- Missing Sandy Dennis / Viggo Mortensen -- Meeting in Dublin; the Quiet man, 1950 / Lindsay Anderson

In this eighth title in a series in which film-makers discuss their art, there is a focus on critics and criticism. Critics themselves are asked what they think about the state of film criticism and their relationship and responsibility to film and film-makers, and what they dream about. And film-makers are asked about how they regard the critics. This issue also contains articles and interviews with practitioners of film, including a diary from the set of the Coen brothers' film, The Big Lebowski, and a conversation with Michael Ondaatje, editor of The English Patient.

Figgis went to Los Angeles in late 1998 to document the mores of the Hollywood dream factory. The format is a series of taped conversations with film makers, directors, actors, writers, managers and agents. What emerges is a fairly dark image of an industry where money does more than talk.

A celebration of French cinema which uses interviews conducted by Positif with major film-makers of the past 50 years. The book presents a panorama ranging from the aesthetic works of Robert Bresson to the aggression of Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine, as well as masters of the French New Wave.

Why live and work as a film-maker in New York rather than Hollywood? The birthplace of US cinema, New York has played a hugely influential role in its evolution - particularly in the realm of more personal, 'independent' film-making of figures from Sam Fuller to John Cassavetes. Now Projections 11 seeks to answer Mike Figgis' Los Angeles issue Projections 10 by interviewing film-makers who base themselves in New York, creating an East coast alternative to Hollywood. Tod Lippy speaks to Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Sidney Lumet, Christine Vachon, David O. Russell, Nora Ephron, Tim Robbins, Frances McDormand, and many others.

Film schools have nurtured successive generations of cinematic talent over the last three decades. But in the new digital era, do they still have a place? From Paris to Prague, London to Lodz, New York to Los Angeles, film schools sprung up around the globe in the 1960s and helped to revolutionise cinema. Now, recent graduates Fraser MacDonald and Oren Moverman explore the past, present, and future of film education in a series of wide-ranging dialogues with current teachers and celebrated alumni. MacDonald concentrates on the British and European scene and asks whether the recent 'renaissance' in British production owes a debt to the gifted recent graduates of the academies, while Moverman focuses on the famous schools of the American east coast The volume also includes interviews with gifted new directors Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort), François Ozon (Water Drops on Burning Rocks), Bruno Dumont (L'Humanité), and Walter Salles (Central Station). Plus Peter Weller's diary of working with Michelangelo Antonioni, and a short story of backstage life from Ethan Hawke.

This edition of Projections is focused around the experience of female film-makers and actresses. There are interviews, conversations and articles by actresses and directors, including Lisa Choledenko (Laurel Canyon) and Katia Lund (City of God).

This 14th edition of Projections celebrates 14 years of writing by film-makers on film making

In association with the European Film Academy.
"From the great names of auteur cinema to independent producers, multi-language actors and the new avant-garde."