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Written by Boyd van Hoeij
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Thursday, 16 November 2006 |
 Pedro Almodóvar on the set of 'Volver'. Photo (c): Paola Ardizzoni/Emilio Pereda, 2005. While his latest film Volver recently premiered on American screens, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s earlier life and filmography is explored in the new Marvin D’Lugo book “Pedro Almodóvar”, part of the Contemporary Film Directors series of the University of Illinois Press. In this handsome little volume the professor of Spanish and adjunct professor of screen studies at Clark University covers all the films of Almodóvar up until his last film before Volver, La mala educación (Bad Education), and also looks at the bad boy of Spanish cinema’s own education as a filmmaker and auteur extraordinaire. The result is an insightful look at the parallel trajectories of Almodóvar’s cinematic output and the cultivation of the Almodóvar persona.
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Written by Boyd van Hoeij
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Tuesday, 30 May 2006 |
 Earlier this year, Briton Roger Crittenden published a very worthwhile collection of interviews with European film editors called Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing, which Elsevier imprint Focal Press published simultaneously in the UK and the US. Crittenden was the first Head of Editing at the National Film and Television School in the UK, and has been associated with the school ever since, lecturing far and wide on editing, as well as writing Film and Video Editing (2nd edition, Routledge, 1995) and the entry for François Truffaut’s La nuit Américaine (Day for Night) in the British Film Institute Film Classics series. The editor of europeanfilms.net, Boyd van Hoeij, had a chat with Crittenden about his new book. |
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