Publisher's Synopsis
Projections is a forum for film-makers in which the practitioners of cinema write about their craft. In this edition we celebrate the centenary of film with articles ranging from an interview with Louis Lumière - the inventor of the cinema - to James Toback's tales of contemporary Hollywood. Included in Projections 4:
Louis Lumière - Founding Father
Martin Scorsese - Anamorphobia
James Toback - A Journal for 1994
Penn on Penn
Ken Burns - Raising the Dead
Sidney Howard - The Gone with the Wind Letters and The Story Gets a Treatment
Louis Malle, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Fred Berner, Larry Pine - Chekhov's Children
Walter Murch - Sound Design: The Dancing Shadow
Eddie Fowlie - Playing Cowboys and Indians
John Seale - Lunch and a Book
Gene Kelly - An American in Paradise
Sally Potter - The Tango Lesson
Federico Fellini - Creation and the Artist
Viggo Mortensen - Missing Sandy Dennis
Lindsay Anderson - On John Ford
This edition also includes contributions by Percy Adlon, Kevin Brownlow, Roger Corman, Alex Cox, Andre de Toth, Nora Ephron, Monte Hellman, Huang Mingchuan, Richard Lowenstein, Dusan Makavejev, Arthur Penn, Vincent Sherman, Istvan Szabo, Michael Tolkin, Vincent Ward and Fred Zinneman.
