The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud catapulted its shy academic film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight; selling over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an Academy Award. Ma Nuit chez Maud remains his most famous film; the highlight of an impressive range of films examining the sexual; romantic; and artistic mores of contemporary France; the temptations of desire; the small joys of everyday life; and sometimes; the vicissitudes of history and politics. Yet Rohmer was already forty years old when Maud was released and had already had a career as the editor of Cahiers du Cineacute;ma; a position he lost in a political takeover in 1963. The interviews in this book offer a range of insights into the theoretical; critical; and practical circumstances of Rohmers remarkably coherent body of films; but also allow Rohmer to act as his own critic; providing us with an array of readings concerning his interest in setting; season; color; and narrative. Alongside the application of a theoretical rigor to his own films; Rohmers interviews also discuss directors as varied as Godard; Carneacute;; Renoir; and Hitchcock; and the relations of film to painting; architecture; and music. This book reproduces little-known interviews; such as a debate Rohmer undertakes with Women and Film concerning feminism; alongside detailed discussions from Cahiers and Positif; many produced in English here for the first time.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great scoreBy Aaron DanielThis is a great score at a very affordable price; I believe you can get the entire Ring Cycle through these Dover reprints8 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Twilight of the GodsBy Scott GilesThis is an immense work of Herculean intensity. At its worst this opera can be a little thick but even the worst music here is beautiful! The scoring is superb; the harmonies rich. This is the only part of The Ring to use a chorus. The first moments of the piece set the tone of apocalyptic drama.Its a big work but once you get involved in the action (this takes a few seconds at most); the time flies by and before you know it; it is over. It is a great idea to equip oneself with the score for most productions as; unfortunately; there are very few good productions of this ever. It is a complicated score; exhausting and difficult to sing and interpret. A pity; for when Gotterdammerung is done right there are few things as powerful and beautiful in the world.3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Excellent reprint of a good first edition of a great work!!By Alexander Z. DamyanovichThe reviewer who praised this reprint before my post here has said all that needs to be said in favour of this work!! My only quibbles - and the reason I cant give this edition a full 5 stars - have to do with Schotts fonts and the ordering of their staves in the systems.[For details; please see my equivalent review for "Siegfried in Full Score"; which Dover reprint is from the same first-edition source as this one.]Nevertheless; warmly recommended!