The British cinema during the 1940s was enjoying an unlikely renaissance. This book chronicles these seminal years for British cinema through the characters and aspirations of some of its leading personalities. Drawing on interviews and research, it brings to life the atmosphere, ambience and connections of a film-making community.
Fifty years on, The Third Man remains one of the most critically acclaimed British films ever made. But little has ever been written about the film and its making. This book uses a wide range of material to deliver a fast-paced story about the making of this classic. schovat popis
Amidst the chaos and anarchy of civil war-wracked France, one man's spectacular rise and devastating fall was lost to history - until now.
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Focusing on the evolution of the independent film industry, this book narrates the history of Film Finances, established in 1950 to mitigate financial risks in filmmaking. It highlights the development of the "completion guarantee," a crucial tool for securing investor confidence. Spanning seven decades, the narrative intertwines the company's journey with significant milestones in postwar cinema, showcasing how it influenced and supported the growth of independent filmmaking on a global scale.
But when his mother was told that she was dying, it prompted recollections of her early life that she had never confided before: of the village in the west of Ireland where she had grown up, and of her father, whose death changed the life of an eight-year-old girl for ever.
In The Faber Book of French Cinema, Charles Drazin explores the rich film culture and history of the country that first established the cinema as the most important mass medium of the twentieth century. Offering portraits of such key figures as the Lumière brothers, Georges Méliès, Charles Pathé and Léon Gaumont, he looks at the early pioneers who transformed a fairground novelty into a global industry. The crisis caused by the First World War led France to surrender her position as the world's dominant film-making power, but French cinema forged a new role for itself as a beacon of cinematic possibility and achievement. Suggesting a Gallic attitude that has always considered the cinema to be as much a cause as a business, Drazin looks at the extraordinary resilience of the French film industry during the Second World War when, in spite of the national catastrophe of defeat and occupation, it was still able to produce such classics as Le Corbeau and Les Enfants du Paradis. Finally, he traces its remarkable post-war regeneration. He looks at the seminal impact of the New Wave of film-makers - typified by Truffaut and Godard - but also at the other waves that have followed since. As he brings the story into the twenty-first century - with Jacques Audaird's award-winning A Prophet - he seeks to capture the essence of the French film tradition and why it continues to matter to anyone who cares about the cinema.