Rebels on the Backlot
by Sharon Waxman | 
Woody Allen on Woody Allen
by Woody Allen | 
Herzog on Herzog
by Werner Herzog |
Lynch on Lynch
by David Lynch | 
This Is Orson Welles
by Orson Welles |
Cronenberg on Cronenberg
by David Cronenberg | 
Gilliam on Gilliam
by Terry Gilliam |
Hitchcock
by Francois Truffaut | 
All About All About Eve
by Sam Staggs | 
On Film-making
by Alexander Mackendrick | 
When Movies Mattered
by Dave Kehr |
Sleazoid Express
by Bill Landis | 
The Jaws Log
by Carl Gottlieb |
Midnight Movies
by J. Hoberman |
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
by David Bordwell |
Shooting to Kill
by Christine Vachon | 
On Directing Film
by David Mamet | 
So You Want to Be a Producer
by Lawrence Turman | 
Placing Movies
by Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Understanding Movies
by Louis Giannetti |
Peter Bogdanovich, director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of film - from Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh to Leo McCarey, Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Lumet. The conversations brought together in this book give us a history of the movies. They are the stories of pioneers who came to the picture business from many worlds. Some were adventurers (running away to sea; joining Pancho Villa) before finding their place in the movies. Some were football stars, some electrical engineers, lawyers, auto mechanics, airplane designers. Some were trained in silent movies (Dwan, Walsh, Lang, von Sternberg, Hitchcock). Many of them were men who lived to the hilt and brought to their work the residue of their earlier experiences.