TALKING MOVIES

A culmination of more than ten years of interviews, Talking Movies is a collection of conversations with some of the most audacious and respected contemporary filmmakers of the present generation. Several of these in-depth discussions have already featured in publications such as Vertigo and Enthusiasm, and there are over fifteen interviews exclusive to this book. The names included here are those at the cutting edge of cinematic style the world over, those whose work has defined how images are processed and appreciated by modern audiences. Directors frankly discussing their craft and the social, political and technological forces that inform it including Claire Denis and Bertrand Tavernier (France), Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Carlos Reygadas (Mexico) Hal Hartley and Richard Linklater (USA), Stephen Frears and Andrew Kötting (UK), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey), Atom Egoyan (Canada), Lucrecia Martel (Argentina) and John Hillcoat and Nick Cave (Australia).

January 2006
224 pages

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Jason Wood is a film programmer, documentary filmmaker and writer. Recent publications include Nick Broomfield: Documenting Icons (2005) and Contemporary Mexican Cinema (2006). His journalism has appeared in Vertigo, the Guardian and Sight and Sound.

'Talking Movies is an indispensable volume that should be considered a set text for arts journalists (both budding and professional) trying to master the methodology behind achieving the most revealing and entertaining interviews possible.' *****
David Jenkins, Time Out 

'In Talking Movies Jason Wood interviews more than 30 contemporary filmmakers ... Wood’s project is wonderfully international in scope, and there are numerous good observations from his interviewees.' ****
Tony McKibbin, The List, June 2007

‘The strength lies in Wood’s questions; never generic or glib, his inquiries always demonstrate an assured insight into the director’s work … Talking Movies could have been a cursory collection of existing pieces, but instead it has the cohesion of an original book.'
Moviemaker