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Trier On Von Trier
''Trier on von Trier'' () is a 1999 book by the Swedish journalist and filmmaker Stig Björkman. It consists of a series of interviews with the Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. The content goes into Trier and his work in roughly chronological order, beginning with his childhood and covering his films from the 1980s and 1990s, notably the Europa trilogy and Golden Heart trilogy. Faber & Faber published the book in English translation in 2003. See also * ''Hawks on Hawks'' * ''Lynch on Lynch'' References External links Faber 1999 non-fiction books Books of interviews Non-fiction books about film directors and producers Lars von Trier Swedish non-fiction books {{film-bio-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stig Björkman
Stig Björkman (born 2 October 1938) is a Swedish writer and film criticism, film critic. He has also directed fifteen films since 1964. His 1972 film ''Georgia, Georgia'' was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. His 1975 film ''The White Wall'' was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2015 documentary ''Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words'' was screened in the Cannes Classics section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Selected bibliography * Bergman on Bergman: Interviews with Ingmar Bergman (1970), * * Trier on von Trier (1999); Faber & Faber, 2003, * Fucking film: den nya svenska filmen (2002) * Joyce Carol Oates: Samtal med Stig Björkman (2003) Selected filmography * ''Georgia, Georgia'' (1972) * ''The White Wall'' (1975) * ''Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words'' (2015) * ''Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind'' (2023) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bjorkman, Stig 1938 births Living people Swedis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Von Trier
Lars von Trier (né Trier; born 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. Beginning in the late-1960s as a child actor working on Danish television series ''Secret Summer'', von Trier's career has spanned more than five decades. Considered a major figure of the European film industry, he and his works have been variously described as ambitious and provocative, as well as technically innovative. His films offer confrontational examinations of Existentialism, existential, social, psychosexual, and political issues, and deal in subjects including mercy, sacrifice, and mental health. He frequently collaborates with the actors Jens Albinus, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier and Stellan Skarsgård. Von Trier co-created the avant-garde filmmaking movement Dogme 95 alongside fellow director Thomas Vinterberg and co-founded the Danish film production company Zentropa, the films from which have sold more than 350million tickets and garnered eight Academy Award nominations. Von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europa Trilogy
The ''Europa'' trilogy is an experimental film trilogy created by Danish writers Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel, comprising his three feature films '' The Element of Crime'' (1984), ''Epidemic'' (1987) and '' Europa'' (1991). The films are set in different locations of Europe, and are not a narrative trilogy but rather are linked by common themes and stylistic explorations. The overarching subject of the trilogy may be taken to be the social crises and traumas of Europe in the future. Each of the three films follows a character whose idealistic actions ultimately perpetuate the very problem he seeks to solve. Von Trier's later ''USA - Land of Opportunities'' trilogy also deals with both apparent social collapse, and the ill-effects of the interventions of idealistic individuals. Themes and creative aspects that the films share include hypnosis, a dystopian version of Europe, and experimental uses of colour. The trilogy also experiments with film noir conventions, and explores ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Heart Trilogy
The Golden Heart trilogy () consists of three films by the Danish screenwriter and director Lars von Trier: ''Breaking the Waves'' (1996), a melodrama about sex and religion; ''The Idiots'' (1998), a Dogme 95 film dealing with moral conventions; and ''Dancer in the Dark'' (2000), a musical starring the Icelandic singer Björk. The standalone films feature female protagonists and were inspired by the children's book ''Guldhjertet'' (), which is about a poor girl who ends up giving away all her food and all the clothes she wears in order to help others. Each film premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where ''Breaking the Waves'' won the Grand Prix and ''Dancer in the Dark'' won the Palme d'Or. ''Breaking the Waves'' ''Breaking the Waves'' stars Emily Watson and is set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s. It follows Bess McNeill, a young woman with a history of mental illness, who belongs to a tight-knit Calvinist community and marries a non-religious and for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Milan Kundera and Kazuo Ishiguro. Founded in 1929, in 2006 the company was named the KPMG Publisher of the Year. Faber and Faber Inc., formerly the American branch of the London company, was sold in 1998 to the Holtzbrinck company Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG). Faber and Faber ended the partnership with FSG in 2015 and began distributing its books directly in the United States. History Faber and Faber began as a firm in 1929, but originated in the Scientific Press, owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer. The Scientific Press derived much of its income from the weekly magazine ''The Nursing Mirror''. The Gwyers' desire to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quarterly Review Of Film And Video
The ''Quarterly Review of Film and Video'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering moving image studies, considered to be among the best-known journals in this field. It is published by Routledge. From 1999 to 2014, Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster were the editors-in-chief of the journal;Susan Wloszczyna, April 2, 2010, USA TODAYHow to watch your dragons: 10 fire-breathing beasts on DVD Accessed Aug. 25, 2013 on December 23, 2014 David Sterritt became the new editor of the journal. The journal is currently edited by Vera Dika. History The founding editor was Ronald Gottesman, who began the journal in the middle 1970s. Later editors have included Katherine S. Kovács and Michael Renov. The journal was established in 1976 as the ''Quarterly Review of Film Studies'', obtaining its current title in 1989. It was one of a few journals in the early 21st century which published critical essays about controversial topics.David Abel, August 29, 2001, San Francisco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Review Of Books
The ''London Review of Books'' (''LRB'') is a British literary magazine published bimonthly that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews. History The ''London Review of Books'' was founded in 1979, when publication of ''The Times Literary Supplement'' was suspended during the year-long Lockout (industry), lock-out at ''The Times''. Its founding editors were Karl Miller, then professor of English at University College London; Mary-Kay Wilmers, formerly an editor at ''The Times Literary Supplement''; and Susannah Clapp, a former editor at Jonathan Cape. For its first six months, it appeared as an insert in ''The New York Review of Books''. It became an independent publication in May 1980. Its political stance has been described by Alan Bennett, a prominent contributor, as "consistently radical". Unlike ''The Times Literary Supplement'' (TLS), the majority of the articles the ''LRB'' publishes (usually fifteen p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawks On Hawks
''Hawks on Hawks'' is a book of interviews between critic Joseph McBride and director Howard Hawks first published in 1982. Hawks explains his views on directing and storytelling, and his work with such stars as Carole Lombard, John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe and such writers as Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Leigh Brackett, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Background McBride explains the origins of the book: "François Truffaut, the French director and critic who conducted a landmark book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock in the mid-1960s, told me in 1974 that he wished a similar book could be done with Hawks... Oddly enough, when Truffaut suggested to me that someone should do a book on Hawks comparable to his book on Hitchcock, I was then in the process of doing just such a book without even realizing it. I first met Hawks in November 1970, at the Chicago Film Festival, a month before th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynch On Lynch
''Lynch on Lynch'' is a book of interviews with David Lynch, conducted, edited, and introduced by Chris Rodley, a filmmaker. The interviews took place between 1993 and 1996. Each chapter is devoted to a separate film, from his beginnings up to '' Lost Highway''. It was published by Faber & Faber Limited in London in 1997 (). A revised edition was published by Farrar Straus & Giroux on March 16, 2005 () Table of contents Acknowledgements, Introduction # Shadow of a Twisted Hand Across My House: Childhood, memory and painting # Garden in the City of Industry: From The Bride to '' The Grandmother'' # I See Myself: '' Eraserhead'' # A Bug Dreams of Heaven: Shed Building and ''The Elephant Man'' # Oww God, Mom, the Dog He Bited Me: Photography and ''Dune'' # She Wasn't Fooling Anyone, She Was Hurt and She Was Hurt Bad: Music and '' Blue Velvet'' # Suddenly My House Became a Tree of Sores: A Tale of ''Twin Peaks'' # It's a Great Big Wonderful World: '' Wild at Heart'' and Weird ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Non-fiction Books
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA. * January 25 – The 6.2 Colombia earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,900 people. February * February 7 – Abdullah II inherits the throne of Jordan, following the death of his father King Hussein. * February 11 – Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will become again in 2231. * February 12 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is acquitted in impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate. * February 16 ** In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov takes place at government headquarters. ** Across Europe, Kurdish protestors take over embassies and hold hostages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books Of Interviews
A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, mostly of writing and images. Modern books are typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover, what is known as the ''codex'' format; older formats include the scroll and the tablet. As a conceptual object, a ''book'' often refers to a written work of substantial length by one or more authors, which may also be distributed digitally as an electronic book (ebook). These kinds of works can be broadly classified into fiction (containing invented content, often narratives) and non-fiction (containing content intended as factual truth). But a physical book may not contain a written work: for example, it may contain ''only'' drawings, engravings, photographs, sheet music, puzzles, or removable content like paper dolls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-fiction Books About Film Directors And Producers
Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Non-fiction typically aims to present topics objectively based on historical, scientific, and empirical information. However, some non-fiction ranges into more subjective territory, including sincerely held opinions on real-world topics. Often referring specifically to prose writing, non-fiction is one of the two fundamental approaches to story and storytelling, in contrast to narrative fiction, which is largely populated by imaginary characters and events. Non-fiction writers can show the reasons and consequences of events, they can compare, contrast, classify, categorise and summarise information, put the facts in a logical or chronological order, infer and reach conclusions about facts, etc. They can use graphic, structural and printed appearance features such as pictures, graphs or charts, di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
