--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, Tag Gallagher <tag@s...> wrote:
David Thomason: Dictionary of Film [Directors].
>
> JPC & Bertrand Tavernier: 50 ans de Cinéma américaine. (also
nearly
> 1300 pages, double-columned). There's an attractive paper edition,
> revised, that sold for 150F a few years ago. (The annoying thing
is
> that one doesn't know which of the authors wrote which sentences.)
>
> .
> It's "americain," Tag, not "americaine". And you just have to
ask me who wrote which sentences. Make a little list. For one thing
some of the essays are entirely Bertrand's, some entirely mine; and
many are mainly by one of us with just a little bit by the other guy.
So that makes it easy. Sometimes we have forgotten who wrote what but
not often. Also His style and mine are quite different so that can be
a cue too. The anonymity was our choice from the start (in "30 years"
back in 1970 too...)

JPC
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>
>
> Fred Camper wrote:
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> >
> > Let's say I wanted to know how an "auteurist" director is
generally
> > assessed. As of the early 80s I would look to Sarris, Roud's two
volume
> > book, JPC's two volume book, and perhaps the St. James Press
dictionary
> > of filmmakers.
> >
> > Are there more current volumes with essays assessing the work of
> > directors?