The Hollywood Interviews (Talking Images)

Hollywood Interviews brings together seven directors--Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Tim Burton, and Joel and Ethan Coen--who together represent the leading auteurs of contemporary cinema. The interviews were all commissioned for the legendary film collective Cahiers du Cinema, the first group of critics to treat films, particularly Hollywood films, as a serious art form. Conducted in the tradition of Cahiers' famously in-depth, critical and engaged style, these interviews catch each director at a crucial juncture in his development as an artist, and stand as a historical record of Hollywood's dominance in cinematic art.