Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers
«Hill's subjects - including Michel Gondry and Sofia Coppola - are covered in an admirably authoritative, fluid way [four stars]»
Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine
Since the late 1990s, a subtle, subversive element has been at work within the staid confines of the Hollywood dream factory. Young filmmakers like Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, and Sofia Coppola rode in on the coattails of the independent film movement that blossomed in the early 1990s and have managed to wage an aesthetic campaign against imaginative cowardice of all persuasions, much like their artistic forebears - the so-called Movie Brats Coppola, Scorsese, De Palma, Altman, and Ashby among others - did in the 1970s. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Kamera Books
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 192
- ISBN
- 9781842433928
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
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«Hill's subjects - including Michel Gondry and Sofia Coppola - are covered in an admirably authoritative, fluid way [four stars]»
Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine
«Do the surreal and subversive visions of Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, et al constitute a movement on a par with the 'Movie Brats' of the 1970s and the Nouvelle Vague?»
Neil Smith, Total Film
«Author Derek Hill was interviewed by Antonio Pasolini of our sister film review website kamera.co.uk»
Antonio Pasolini, www.kamera.co.uk
«Much has been written in magazines and online about what Hill describes as the American New Wave, yet this is one of the few books to tackle the subject»
Peter Thornell, Library Journal December 2008
«a timely companion to a generation of so-called 'subversive' fillmmakers following in the footsteps of the 'Movie Brats' of the 70s»
Quentin Falk, Academy Magazine