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.

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.