Description
About the Author
Kent Jones is an internationally recognized writer and filmmaker. He writes regularly for Film Comment and his work has appeared in many magazines, newspapers, anthologies, and catalogues. In 2007, Wesleyan University Press published Physical Evidence, a selection of his writings. In 2009, he was appointed Executive Director of The World Cinema Foundation. He has worked with Martin Scorsese on numerous projects and documentary films including My Voyage to Italy (1999), Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007) which he wrote and directed, and the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning A Letter to Elia (2010). He is preparing a feature film, It Never Entered My Mind, for the winter of 2012.
Reviews
Enthusiastic, personal, and easy to read.... Recommended. * Choice *
The book is really beautiful: the layout is terrific, the illustrations fantastic, well-chosen; it's truly a wonderful package. -- Some Came Running
A thoughtful, personal survey of Assayas's career by American critics edited by Jones and an English translation of Assayas's 2002 memoir 'A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord', both published in handsome volumes by the Austrian Film Museum, expose this tension in Assayas's work: between a desire for risk and a sensitive intelligence resistant to easy solutions; between allegiance to cinema 'degree zero,' a cinema of presence, and a romantic fascination with the passage of time...Jones, who writes four of the essays himself, has been in correspondence with Assayas for two decades, and the richness of the book is due not only to his deep affinity for Assayas's work but from the dialogue that has developed between the two of them on the nature of cinema and art. -- Film Comment
Book Information
ISBN 9783901644436
Author Kent Jones
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien
Publisher Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien
Weight(grams) 532g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 171mm * 29mm