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More Bert Cardullo, “Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists” Thought-provoking interviews with nine major film directors, accompanied by critical essays on their work. Preface This book began as a wildly ambitious adventure over three decades ago, a few years after I had graduated from college: try to interview, or at least meet, as many of the world’s most esteemed filmmakers as possible. Through various contacts—familial, academic, journalistic—unflagging persistence, and some great good luck, I was able to do so. But my “adventure” took much longer than I had expected, for the usual reasons: money, time, other commitments, and so on. In any event, meeting up with filmmakers got easier after I became the movie critic of The Hudson Review in 1987. And Soundings on Cinema is the result of hours of conversation with the likes of Michelangelo Antonioni and Robert Bresson, to name just two of my subjects in the pages to follow. The conversations with Antonioni, Vittorio De Sica, and Federico Fellini were all conducted, as much as possible, in English; when each director had to use Italian, I translated later with the assistance of my mother, a native speaker. The same goes for the interviews with Jean Renoir and Bresson: mostly in English, with a smattering of French, which I was able to translate on my own. Ingmar Bergman, Aki Kaurismäki (who graciously provided me with my introduction to the reclusive Bergman), and, of course, Mike Leigh all spoke only in English; and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg spoke exclusively in German, which I myself subsequently translated. In the cases of the interviews with Kaurismäki, Bergman, and Leigh, each man either was already familiar with my writings on his work or requested copies in advance of our meeting. When those writings were negative, in whole or in part, as in the instances of Autumn Sonata and Vera Drake, the filmmaker happily happened to agree with my assessment (Bergman) or wanted very much to contest it—in person (Leigh). Soundings on Cinema is organized along national lines, and, although I have limited my nations to those of Europe, I have otherwise tried to be inclusive in my selections. Finland, Italy, Germany, France, England, and Sweden are represented here. I would have liked to include other continents and other countries along with their best directors, and I tried. But Gutiérrez Alea of Cuba, for example, regrettably passed away several weeks before our scheduled meeting; Ousmane Sembène of Senegal canceled on me three times; and Agnès Varda simply refused all requests for an interview. Still, I managed to conduct nine interviews with some of the men who figured (and figure) most in the making of the movies; in any case, restrictions on length would have prevented me from including all the filmmakers I would have wanted. It must be said, moreover, that the subject of African or Latin American cinema—like the subject of Asian cinema—deserves a representative collection of interviews unto itself. The European filmmakers I have included, the reader will note, are important not because they are “mere” directors, but because they are writer-directors or cinematic auteurs. Each of them has written, or collaborated in the writing of, every script he has directed; some are even complete auteurs in the sense that they perform almost every function that goes into the making of a film, including editing and musical scoring. Why is such authorship so important? For the obvious reason that it puts a work of film art on the same level as any other work of art (not so negligible a reason when you consider the relative youth of the cinema as an art form): as primarily the product of one person’s vision, supervision, and execution. Auteurism is also significant for the less obvious reason that, as it is properly understood, it correctly privileges the well-wrought script, the carefully chosen word, as the place where every narrative film of quality must begin. That so many narrative films do not so begin—that they limit auteurism to signature visual style or stylistic flourish—is the reason so many of them finally fall short of cinematic wholeness, let alone excellence. A word on the pairings: Each interview is accompanied either by an overview of the director’s career, a section on a particular film of his, or a series of interconnected reviews of films by the auteur in question. My intent in doing this, of course, is to “bounce” my writings off a director’s own words, to juxtapose what I think of his work against what he thinks of his work. We do not always agree, but, why must we? Where I am bold enough to differ, say, with Leigh, I hope that our disagreement is a productive or “teaching” one. Where I am (at the tender age of twenty-five) cheeky enough to challenge De Sica, in conversation if not in writing, I trust that his exasperated response to my question is telling as well as comic. As for the three groupings themselves, they are, aside from being geographically representative of Europe, artistically inclusive as well. Among the Italian neorealist directors, for example, are those who go beyond re alism into realms that can only be called “romantically fantastic” in the case of Fellini and “sculpturally spatial” in the case of Antonioni. In the grouping “Anglo-Nordic Temperaments,” Syberberg’s theater of film is juxtaposed against Bergman’s film as music. Finally, among the French, there is one director, Renoir, to whom one cannot easily ascribe a specific narrative style or tone—and there is another director, Bresson, whose style and tone remained the same throughout his career (as they have remained the same, thus far, in the work of his Finnish admirer, Kaurismäki). I have tried to make the interviews themselves as artistically inclusive as possible. That is, my questions focus on practical matters related to filmmaking (which, lest we forget, is variously known as a technology, an industry, an entertainment, and an art) as much as they do on historical, aesthetic, and critical-theoretical issues raised by the films themselves. Among those practical matters, furthermore, the reader will note that as much attention is given to acting, design, and cinematography as to directing, writing, and editing (with some attention paid to finance and audience-reception, as well). Naturally, this is because film is the most “total” of the arts, containing or embracing all the others: literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, music, theater, and dance. Hence any interview of a film artist should itself aspire to be as aesthetically comprehensive as it can. Soundings on Cinema is the culmination, then, of my lifelong love affair with the cinema, even though I somehow managed to marry into the theater (as the reader will see, for instance, in the chapter devoted to Syberberg). That love affair, from the start, has been premised on my belief, or rather knowledge, that not only is film the most democratic of the arts in addition to being the most “total”—making all faces equal and making “travel,” through time as well as space, available to people of every social class at the same low price. Film is also the only narrative art form almost instantaneously available, through subtitling, throughout the world. Its immediate international character is what drew me to it, and therefore it is ultimately what made this book possible. Soundings on Cinema was also made possible in the end through the generosity, confidence, and even forbearance of my editors at The Hudson Review, Paula Deitz and the late Frederick Morgan. It was completed during a Fulbright research fellowship in Istanbul, Turkey—a country, poised between East and West, where I remain today. It was improved by my editor, Murray Pomerance, together with the two anonymous readers of the original manuscript. It is dedicated to Barbara Ann Wittenberg, the woman who accompanied me during the early part of my great adventure— and the one who got away. Only RS mirrors, please
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