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Agnès Varda : interviews / edited by T. Jefferson Kline

by Varda, Agnès, 1928-

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791.430233 V291a

Varda, Agnès, 1928- -- Interviews.

Women motion picture producers and directors -- France -- Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors -- France -- Interviews.

Conversations with filmmakers series.

9781496802491 (pbk.)

9781617039201 (hc.)

xxxix, 216 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index

Agnès Varda from 5 to 7 / Pierre Uytterhoeven (1962) -- Agnès Varda: the hour of truth / Michel Capdenac (1962) -- A secular grace: Agnès Varda / Jean-Andre Fieschi and Claude Ollier (1965) -- Interview with Agnès Varda / Hubert Arnault (1967) -- The underground river / Gordon Gow (1970) -- Lions love / Andre Cornand ( 1971) -- Mother of the new wave: an interview with Agnès Varda / Jacqueline Levitin (1974) -- Agnès Varda: a very worthy young woman / Mario Cloutier (1975) -- Agnès Varda talks about the cinema / Mireille Amiel (1975) -- L'une chante, l'autre pas: inteview with Agnès Varda / Jean Narboni, Serge Toubiana, and Dominique Villain (1977) -- Agnès Varda / Gerald Peary (1977) -- Sings, the other doesn't: an interview with Agnès Varda / Ruth McCormick (1978) -- Agnès Varda / Philippe Carcasonne and Jacques Fieschi (1981) -- Interview with Agnès Varda / Francoise Aude and Jean-Pierre Jeancolas (1982) -- Interview with Agnès Varda / Francoise Wera (1985) -- Agnès Varda: a conversation / Barbara Quart (1986) -- Interview with Varda on The vagabond (Jean Decock (1988) -- Agnès Varda: playing with tarot cards / Jean Darrigol (1994) -- The grandmother of the new wave / Carol Allen (1996) -- The modest gesture of the filmmaker: an interview with Agnès Varda / Melissa Anderson (2001) -- The gleaners and I by Agnès Varda / Julie Rigg (2005) -- Agnès Varda in Toronto / Gerald Peary (2008) -- The beaches of Agnès: an interview / David Warwick (2009) -- Gleaning the passion of Agnès Varda / Andrea Meyer (2009)

Varda's first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), displayed many of the characteristics of the two later films that launched the New Wave, Truffaut's 400 Blows and Godard's Breathless. In a low-budget film, using (as yet) unknown actors and working entirely outside the prevailing studio system, Varda completely abandoned the "tradition of quality" that Truffaut was at that very time condemning in the pages of Cahiers du cinema. Her work, however, was not "discovered" until after Truffaut and Godard had broken onto the scene in 1959. Varda's next film, Cleo from 5 to 7, attracted considerably more attention and was selected as France's official entry for the Festival in Cannes. Ultimately, however, this film and her work for the next fifty years continued to be overshadowed by her more famous male friends, many of whom she mentored and advised. Her films have finally earned recognition as deeply probing and fundamental to the growing awareness in France of women's issues and the role of women in the cinema. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary with a distinct experimental style.

Kline, T. Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson), 1942-

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