Fred Schepisi

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Tom Ryan

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University Press of Mississippi
17 February 2025

Individual film directors, film-makers; Film movie production: technical skills; Biography: arts & entertainment

Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

In the New Yorker, Stephen Schiff has described Fred Schepisi (b. 1939) as ""probably the least-known great director working in the mainstream American cinema—a master storyteller with a serenely muscular style that can make more flamboyant moviemakers look coarse and overweening."" Schepisi’s launch in Australia during the country’s film renaissance of the 1970s and his ongoing international work have rightfully earned him a reputation as an actors’ director. But he has also become a skillful stylist, forging his own way as he works alongside a talented team of collaborators.

This volume includes twenty interviews with Schepisi and two with longtime collaborators, cinematographer Ian Baker and composer Paul Grabowsky. The interviews trace the filmmaker’s career from his beginnings in advertising, through his two early Australian features—The Devil's Playground and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith—to his subsequent work in the United States and beyond on films as various as Plenty, Roxanne, A Cry in the Dark, The Russia House, Six Degrees of Separation, Empire Falls, Last Orders, and Eye of the Storm. Schepisi’s films are diverse thematically and visually. In what is effectively a master class on film direction, Schepisi discusses his creative choices and his work with actors and collaborators behind the scenes. In the process, he provides a goldmine of insights into his films, his filmmaking style, and what makes him tick as an artist.

Edited by: Tom Ryan
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781496855688
ISBN 10: 149685568X
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 17 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tom Ryan is a former cinema studies lecturer and an Australian critic who has been a regular contributor to film magazines and the arts pages of newspapers for almost forty years. He is author of The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions and editor of Baz Luhrmann: Interviews, both published by University Press of Mississippi, and has contributed to numerous anthologies about film and sport.

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