L'Art des Films

Jérôme d’Estais a précédemment publié trois essais aux éditions LettMotif : Jean Eustache ou la traversée des apparences, Andrzej Zulawski, sur le fil et Barbet Schroeder, ombres et clarté. Il a aussi collaboré à l’ouvrage sur Hal Hartley et écrit deux romans, 178 et Thomas Liebmann, les derniers jours du Yul Brynner de la RDA, paru chez LettMotif. Il est par ailleurs le correspondant en Allemagne de La Septième Obsession.

Dans Secrets de cinéma, les réalisateurs de trente films « cultes » livrent des anecdotes inédites sur la production de leur film, l’écriture, les comédiens, les aléas des tournages… De La vie est un long fleuve tranquille à Intouchables, en passant par Le Père Noël est une ordure ou Le Dîner de cons, suivez Bruno Cras dans les coulisses du 7e art.

Acclaimed film-maker Ang Lee’s concept for his film adaptation of the classic Marvel Comics series, The Hulk, combines all the elements of a blockbuster visual effects-intensive superhero movie with the brooding romance and tragedy of Universal’s classic horror films. In depicting The Hulk as both a superhero and a monster, a wish fulfillment and a nightmare, Lee and his team have stayed true to the early subversive spirit of the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, while completely updating The Hulk and projecting it into the dangers and aspirations of contemporary times.

Today, India is the world's leading film producer, with more than 1,500 films a year in around twenty languages exported throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The international success of Bollywood must not conceal the diversity of Indian cinematography. The term "Bollywood" was created in 1970 from the contraction of Bombay and Hollywood, and refers to the predominant production of musicals in Hindi, but Indian cinema is vast and multicultural. Every region has its own production in its regional language: Kollywood in Kodambakkam, for Tamil cinema a mix of comedy, action and emotion—, or Bengali cinema which is more intellectual and social, as reflected in Satyajit Ray's culturally significant oeuvre the opposite of commercial productions.

La 1ère édition de 'Cent ans de publicités de films et d'affiches de films en Iran' comprenait des affiches de films de 1909 à 2011, laborieusement rassemblées par le critique de cinéma et journaliste Massoud Mehrabi. Celui-ci est la 2e édition de ce livre, comprenant également des affiches des trois dernières années. De la toute première publicité pour un film au dernier film, Rastakhiz, sorti en 2011.

Wes Anderson startled audiences with his stop-motion animated film of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox.
He now displays his unique wit and playful visual sense in an action-filled saga of Samurai dogs.

Tim Burton is one of the great modern-day visionaries of cinema, a director who has fabricated his own deliciously nightmarish universe in movies as extraordinary as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and The Nightmare before Christmas – not to mention his twisted takes on the tales of Batman, Sleepy Hollow and Planet of the Apes.

Directed by the remarkable Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998), ‘Rashomon’ was the first Japanese film to receive significant international attention. It was released in 1950 and won several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, while its visionary artistic ambitions became a symbol of Japan’s post-war reconstruction. Now, on the occasion of its 70th anniversary, this volume presents an in-depth look at what the film’s notable production staff accomplished. Filled with original storyboards, screenwriting fragments, production photographs, scripts, posters, and other ephemera, it is a fascinating tribute to one of the greatest, most impactful films ever made.