Écrire un scénario

Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Stanley Kubrick
Faber & Faber

Ten short films, each based on a broken commandment, set in and around an apartment block in Warsaw. The stories are simple, describing experiences and emotions common to us all - the fractured quality of modern family life, its sadnesses and hopes. These brilliant films explore the significance of the choices we all make, every day of our lives. This edition includes an introduction by Kieslowski about his work, together with the feature-length scripts for A Short Film about Killing and A Short Film about Love.

Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie
Rutgers University Press

Rashomon is one of the greatest of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's films, the winner of the 1951 Venice Festival prize and the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1952. It features Toshiru Mifune, the best-known Japanese actor in the West, as the bandit, and accused rapist and murderer. At the beginning of the film, a woodcutter, priest, and commoner happen to meet at the ruined gate--Rashomon--outside the city of Kyoto. This tale of rape and murder is first seen through the eyes of the woodcutter and priest, both of whom have been touched by the events. The cynical, detached commoner, "everyman," listens to and comments upon their stories. The central section of the film, a series of flashbacks and tales within tales, consists of the same events retold by the husband (speaking through a medium, from the grave), the wife, the bandit, and the woodcutter. Each tells what happened--or possibly, what should have happened. The film deals with multiple truths; Richie summarized the director's point of view in the introduction: "the world is illusion, you yourself make reality, but this reality undoes you if you submit to being limited by what you have made." The sixth title in the Rutgers Films in Print Series and the first Japanese film, this volume brings together for the first time the full continuity script of Rashomon; an introductory essay by Donald Richie; the Akutagawa stories upon which the film is based; critical review and commentaries of the film; a filmography; and a bibliography. Donald Richie is the author of the definitive books in English on Kurosawa and Ozu. In addition, he is coauthor of the standard English-language history of the Japanese film and author or editor of several other books on the subject. He has also served as film critic for the Japan Times and as curator of film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Jurij M. Lotman
Mimesis Edizioni

L'opera filmica, in quanto opera artistica, richiede che ci si discosti dal "cronotopo quotidiano", in favore del "cronotopo letterario", stabilendo un nuovo ordine di concatenazione e un nuovo sistema di rapporti, per conferire alla passiva e statica realtà una drammatica e dinamica efficacia capace di esprimere una particolare concezione del mondo. Lotman, nella sua descrizione del testo cinematografico, fa frequentemente uso del termine musicale "polifonia" e dell'aggettivo "polifonico", impiegato anche da Bachtin, in riferimento alla scrittura letteraria e in particolare al "romanzo polifonico" di Dostoevskij. "Polifonia" è anche un concetto centrale nella ricerca teorica e creativa di Ejzenstejn. Polifonia drammaturgica, separazione e rottura dei nessi passivi e realistici, congiungimento di cose solitamente separate e distinte: tutto questo è collegato con ciò che Ejzenstejn chiama Ex-stasis, per indicare, nel film, un modello dinamico e temporale di passaggi e commutazioni da un registro espressivo a un altro (dall'immagine alla musica al colore).

Paolo Bertetto, Cristina Monti
Edizioni Lindau

Robert Altman
Bompiani

Terry Jones
Electa

Milly Buonanno
Rai Eri

Cinema / Differenze
Unione Circoli Cinematografici Arci

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Edizioni Electa

Michele Salimbeni
Res edizioni

Francois Truffaut
Marsilio editore

Lauren Bacall
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore