Mike Figgis is known for his iconoclastic portrayals of outsiders. Stormy Monday (1988) depicts a janitor turned jazz club partner while in Liebestraum (1991) two affairs shed light on a 30-year old murder-suicide. But it was with Leaving Las Vegas (1995) that Figgis became a household name. The heartbreaking story of the friendship between a prostitute and a man drinking himself to death, the film garnered numerous accolades and awards including Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Director, and has since become a contemporary classic.

Mike Figgis: Collected Screenplays 1: Stormy Monday, Liebestraum, Leaving Las Vegas

Humor & Entertainment

FIGGIS, Mike

Movies

Faber&Faber

Now there is no reason to prevent anybody from making a film. The technology exists, the equipment is much cheaper than it was, the post-production facilities are on a laptop computer, the entire equipment to make a film can go in a couple of cases and be carried as hand luggage on a plane. ―Mike Figgis In this indispensable guide, Academy Award nominee Mike Figgis offers the reader a step-by-step tutorial in how to use digital filmmaking technology so as to get the very best from it. He outlines the equipment and its uses, and provides an authoritative guide to the shooting process―from working with actors to lighting, framing, and camera movement. He dispenses further wisdom on the editing process and the use of sound and music, all while establishing a sound aesthetic basis for the digital format.
Offering everything that you could wish to know on the subject, this is a handbook that will become an essential backpocket eference for the digital film enthusiast―whether your goal is to make no-budget movies or simply to put your video camera to more use than just holidays and weddings.

Digital Filmmaking

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The original 36 Dramatic Situations was written in in French by Georges Polti in the 1850s. Polti synthesized all drama as belonging to combinations of 36 situations. In the book he illustrates each 'situation' with examples from classical and French theater. When Mike Figgis used the book as an aid in putting together a treatment for a film, he found that his landscape of creativity had altered quite radically and ideas came forth with relative ease. He realized that Polti's book was system of reference which could be a powerful tool for writers. So he began updating all of the references, moving the focus away from theater and focusing primarily on cinema. Broken into two halves — the first part of the book looks at 36 different 'Dramatic Situations'. The specific 'Situation' is then explained more fully, followed by an example from a film, accompanied by an explanation of how the device is used in the film. In the second half there are a series of charts which analyze 150 great films (of all genres) based on the 36 situations.

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations

In this book, Figgis shows the potential for revolution through stunning multi-textured images taken from his experimental digital work, which started in 1999 with the widely acclaimed, split-screen TIMECODE. Alongside extracts from his notebooks, scripts and other documents relating to his development of these new techniques are comments on the possibilities they open up for the future.

Hotel

Booth-Clibborn Editions

In the Dark

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

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