100 American Independent Films (Screen Guides) - Softcover

Wood, Jason

 
9781844570065: 100 American Independent Films (Screen Guides)

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An expert and concise selection of American Independent films, one of the most vital areas in the contemporary film-making scene. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, commentary on the film's significance and cross reference to other films. Films addressed include Sex, Lies and Videotape and Donnie Darko.

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JASON WOOD is a freelance film consultant and a co-founder of Ion Productions Ltd. He has produced and directed documentaries on Krzysztof Kleslowski, Hal Hartley and Atom Egoyan. Previous publications include The Pocket Essential Hal Hartley (Pocket Essentials, 2003) and regular film articles for Enthusiasm Film Magazine and Vertigo. David Siegel and Scott McGehee are the writers-producers-directors of Suture, 1994 ('Official Selection' at Cannes Film Festival and Jury prize at the Toronto Film festival) and The Deep End, 2001 (selected for Director's Fortnight Cannes Film Festival). Both films won the best Cinematography Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Together with Robert Nathan they formed an independent film production company, 15, in 1999.

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American Independent films have to many observers provided the only experimental and distinctive voices in recent US cinema. Now an increasingly pervasive influence on contemporary European cinema and mainstream Hollywood, a whole generation of innovative and idiosyncratic American film-makers including Steven Soderbergh, Todd Haynes, Hal Hartley and Jim Jarmusch emerged during the critical and commercial renaissance of the late 1980s and 1990s. Jason Wood's guide defines and outlines a personal but representative selection of a hundred recommended American Independent films, Listing titles such as Sex, Lies and Videotape, Blood Simple, Reservoir Dogs, right up to Donnie Darko, each entry includes a plot synopsis, a commentary on the film's significance, production and exhibition history and cross-references to other films. Jason Wood's expert but concise selection, part of the new BFI Screen Guides Series, is an informative map to one of the most vital areas in the contemporary film-making scene. List of films overleaf.

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ISBN 10:  1844570053 ISBN 13:  9781844570058
Verlag: BFI Publishing, 2004
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