"Projections 2" highlights Robert Altman, whose film "The Player" restored him to his proper place in cinema's pantheon. Actor Tim Robbins, who memorably incarnated Griffin Mill in "The Player", has written, directed and acted in Bob Roberts, the script of which is printed here in full. And another actor, Willem Dafoe, describes how he approaches his craft. There are also pieces by Belgian director Jaco van Dormael, New Zealand director Alison Maclean and Australian director George Miller, who charts the journey he has made from "Mad Max" to the (then) eagerly awaited "Lorenzo's Oil". Finally, Bertrand Tavernier's diary records the evolution of his controversial film "L627" against the shifting European cultural landscape.

Projections 2

Humor & Entertainment

Boorman, John

Movies

John Boorman and Walter Donohue

This book offers a veritable feast of comment by international filmmakers. Following the tradition of the previous three volumes, the centerpiece of Projections 4 is a diary by a filmmaker that encompasses the year in film. This year James Toback, the screenwriter of Bugsy, undertakes the diary. Photos.

Projections 4

When the door of the Lumiere factory opened to release the workers, it was more than just the end of the day - it was the beginning of a brand new art form that has shaped the consciousness of the twentieth century. This very first moment of the very first film gave birth to other moments that are cherished in the recollections of people all over the world. In this issue we collaborated with the French film magazine "Positif". The centrepiece of this issue came to us from "Positif". For their 400th issue "Positif" asked the film-makers with whom they had forged a special relationship over the past forty years to write about the films, directors and actors who have had a special significance for them. An array of seventy international film-makers - including Altman and Angelopoulos, Chabrol and the Coens, Eastwood and Frears, Kazan and Kieslowski, Leigh and Loach, Makavejev and Marker, Ophuls and Penn, Resnais and Rohmer, Rosi and Rudolph, Tavernier and the Tavianis, Varda and Zulawski, among others - responded, and we present this treasure trove of film-making comment as a way of celebrating the 100 years of cinema. 1995 was also the centenary of Buster Keaton. In honour of this, Kevin Brownlow - noted film-maker, historian and restorer of the silent cinema - recounts the making of Keaton's masterpiece, "The General".

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Gathers interviews with Tony Curtis, Brian De Palma, Ray Harryhausen, Nick Park, Henry Selick, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Fred Zinnemann, and James Stewart

Projections 5

The trade publication PROJECTIONS is a forum for film-makers in which the practitioners of cinema write about their craft. This 500th issue collaborates with a prestigious French cinema journal, features a series of essays by Martin Scorsese, pieces by and about actors, and commemorates the 40th anniversary of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 60 photos.

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