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Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology
Michael Temple (Ed.)
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Description for Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology
Paperback. An anthology of selected writings by Richard Roud, the influential film critic and co-founder of the New York Film Festival. Charting his career from the 1950s to the 1980s, it includes rare archival and previously-unpublished material and highlights Roud's role in bringing European art cinema to the attention of American and British audiences. Editor(s): Temple, Michael; Smolens, Karen. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 232 x 16. Weight in Grams: 488.
Richard Roud, film writer and co-founder and director of the New York Film Festival, was one of the most influential film critics of the twentieth century. Renowned for his close relationships with French New Wave directors such as Godard and Truffaut, he played a key role in bringing European art cinema to the attention of American and British audiences.
This anthology brings together selected writings from his published works with previously unpublished archival material – from an unfinished study of Truffaut, to extracts from his books on film-makers such as Straub-Huillet and Ophüls, and articles for The Guardian and ... Read more
Richard Roud, film writer and co-founder and director of the New York Film Festival, was one of the most influential film critics of the twentieth century. Renowned for his close relationships with French New Wave directors such as Godard and Truffaut, he played a key role in bringing European art cinema to the attention of American and British audiences.
This anthology brings together selected writings from his published works with previously unpublished archival material – from an unfinished study of Truffaut, to extracts from his books on film-makers such as Straub-Huillet and Ophüls, and articles for The Guardian and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844576258
SKU
V9781844576258
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About Michael Temple (Ed.)
Michael Temple is Reader in Film and Media at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He is author of Jean Vigo (2005) and co-editor of The French Cinema Book (2004) and Jean-Luc Godard: Documents (2006), among other titles. Karen Smolens is the niece of Richard Roud. She attended her first New York Film Festival at age 13, ... Read more
Reviews for Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology
"Topical in the best sense, these bulletins from the front are the first draft of film history." - Film Comment "Even before Andrew Sarris and Susan Sontag, Richard Roud was a key translator/programmer of continental cinema for the Anglo-American public, and it's extremely gratifying to finally have a collection of his film writing." Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Critic and Writer "This ... Read more