Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists

In Soundings on Cinema, film critic Bert Cardullo engages nine major international film directors-Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Aki Kaurismaki, Mike Leigh, Jean Renoir, and Hans-Jurgen Syberberg-in a series of dialogues about how they work, the meanings of their movies, and the relationship of their pictures to other directors’ films and to the other arts. Each of these probing and thought-provoking interviews is accompanied by an overview of the director’s career, an essay on a particular film, or a series of interconnected reviews of the director’s films. Focusing on practical matters related to filmmaking-acting, design, cinematography, directing, writing, and editing-as well as historical, aesthetic, and critical-theoretical issues raised by the films themselves, Cardullo explains how, at their best, these filmmakers use the resources of their medium to pursue complex, significant humanistic goals. Book jacket.