Conversations with Filmmakers Series

The Conversations with Filmmakers Series is part of the University Press of Mississippi which is sponsored by Mississippi's eight state universities. The mission of the Series is to publish collected interviews with world-famous directors.^[1] The current Filmmakers Series editor is Gerald Peary, a noted film critic and Professor of Communications and Journalism at Suffolk University, Boston. Peary was appointed to this position following the death of the Series’ original general editor, Dr. Peter Brunette.

The series was launched in 1998 with Gerald Peary's Quentin Tarantino: Interviews.^[2] It was favorably reviewed by MovieMaker Magazine which found a balance and depth throughout saying, "Contemporary giants like Soderbergh, Oliver Stone and John Sayles are treated with just as much esteem as legends like Wilder and John Huston."^[2]

Interviewees

Robert Aldrich Woody Allen Pedro Almodóvar Robert Altman Theo Angelopoulos Michelangelo Antonioni Hal Ashby Ingmar Bergman Bernardo Bertolucci Danny Boyle Tim Burton Jane Campion Frank Capra Charlie Chaplin The Coen Brothers Francis Ford Coppola George Cukor Jonathan Demme Clint Eastwood Atom Egoyan Federico Fellini John Ford Terry Gilliam Jean-Luc Godard Peter Greenaway

Howard Hawks Alfred Hitchcock John Huston Jim Jarmusch Elia Kazan Buster Keaton Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Fritz Lang David Lean Spike Lee Mike Leigh George Lucas Sidney Lumet David Lynch Guy Maddin Joseph L. Mankiewicz Albert and David Maysles Errol Morris Brian De Palma Sam Peckinpah Arthur Penn Roman Polanski Michael Powell Satyajit Ray

Jean Renoir Martin Ritt Carlos Saura John Sayles Martin Scorsese Ridley Scott Ousmane Sembène John Singleton Steven Soderbergh Steven Spielberg George Stevens Oliver Stone Quentin Tarantino Andrei Tarkovsky François Truffaut Liv Ullman Lars von Trier Orson Welles Billy Wilder Michael Winterbottom John Woo William Wyler Zhang Yimou Fred Zinnemann

References

1. ^ Google Books
2. ^ ^{a b} Conversations with Filmmakers Series reviewed by Jennifer M. Wood of MovieMaker Magazine, 25 January 2003

External links

• University Press of Mississippi
• Official website