Les réalisateurs sont les maîtres d'oeuvre d'un film. Cet ouvrage leur est consacré : de Pedro Almodóvar à Zhang Yimou, en passant par Olivier Assayas, Susanne Bier ou encore Guillermo del Toro, dix-sept réalisateurs emblématiques se dévoilent et évoquent leurs méthodes de travail, leurs secrets de tournage, leur savoir-faire et leur vision, avec passion et générosité. L'ouvrage dresse en outre le portrait de cinq grands cinéastes qui ont marqué les générations : Ingmar Bergman, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock et Akira Kurosawa.

A rare, intimate portrait of Hollywood’s reigning ‘blockbuster auteur’ whose deeply personal billion-dollar movies have established him as the most successful director to come out of the British Isles since Alfred Hitchcock.
More than just the tinkerings of a glass watchmaker, Christopher Nolan’s films have an unerring grasp of the way time makes us feel. Time steals people away in his films, and he takes careful note of the theft. Time is Nolan’s great antagonist, his lifelong nemesis. He seems almost to take it personally.

Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, the book moves chronologically through Hitchcock’s films to discuss his career, techniques, and effects he achieved. It changed the way Hitchcock was perceived, as a popular director of suspense films – such as Psycho and The Birds – and revealed to moviegoers and critics, the depth of Hitchcock’s perception and his mastery of the art form.

As a result of the changed perceptions about Hitchcock, his masterpiece, Vertigo, hit the No 1 slot in Sight & Sound’s recent poll of film-makers and critics, displacing Citizen Kane as the Best Film of all time.