Movies for a Desert Isle
Forty-two Well-Known Film-Lovers in Search of the Films They Love Most
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About the Book
Insights and anecdotes about cinema and filmmakers tumble from the mouths of filmmaker legends like Akira Kurosawa, Robert Altman, and Jim Jarmusch on these pages. Movies for a Desert Isle is at once a delight to browse in, and a provocative seminar on filmmaking.
About the Author
Elena Oumano is the author of twenty-one nonfiction books, a professor of communications for the City University of New York, and a music and film journalist for the Village Voice. She is also the author of Film Forum: Thirty-five Filmmakers Discuss Their Craft and the forthcoming Cinema Today: A Conversation with Thirty-nine Filmmakers From Around the World.