Ce très bel album, richement illustré de photos et de documents de travail (extraits de scénario et de storyboard, dessins…) est la première monographie consacrée au réalisateur américain (Little Odessa, The Yards, La nuit nous appartient, Two Lovers..). L’auteur passe en revue chronologiquement, tout le parcours cinématographique de James Gray à partir d’entretiens avec le réalisateur lui-même ainsi qu’avec ceux qui ont collaboré avec lui (acteurs, producteurs, chef opérateurs, scénariste, compositeur, chef décorateur, monteur) ; édition bilingue, préface de Jean Douchet, introduction de Francis Ford Coppola, filmographies, nombreuses illustrations en couleurs.
The first book about James Gray. After only four feature-length movies – Little Odessa (Silver Lion at the 1994 Venice Film Festival), The Yards (2000 Cannes Film Festival), We Own the Night (2007 Cannes Film Festival) and Two Lovers (2008 Cannes Film Festival) – James Gray has imposed himself as one of the most important filmmakers of his generation and has forged a unique path between independent cinema and the Hollywood studio system.
Alongside the filmmaker’s own words can be found interviews with the various actors, producers, screenwriters, production designers, editors and cinematographers that he has worked with over the years. Each interview reveals, step by step and with complete frankness, how a movie is made – from the earliest scenarios to the final mixing.
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Throughout these interviews, which are accompanied by a series of exceptional documents (screenplays, storyboards, set photographs, musical compositions, personal archives from the director), James Gray offers up a lesson in moviemaking that will delight both cinéphiles and film students alike.
With a preface by Jean Douchet, renown film critic of the French New Wave, and accompanied by a short introductory message from Francis Ford Coppola, James Gray provides readers with a thorough analysis of contemporary American cinema.
A film book with a radically innovative design.
