Arthur Penn

Beginning in 1957 with the release of his directorial debut <i>The Left-Handed Gun</i> Arthur Penn (b. 1922) quickly became an iconoclastic and influential American film director. Moving deftly between comedy and tragedy realism and absurdity his films <i>Mickey One</i> <i>Bonnie and Clyde</i> <i>Alice's Restaurant</i> <i>Little Big Man</i> and <i>Night Moves</i> speak to the troubled times--the 1960s and 1970s--in which they were made while remaining timeless in their unsettling portrayal of characters on the margins of society. <p/> <i>Arthur Penn: Interviews</i> is the first collection to explore every stage of the director's career. These conversations span forty-five years from his first in-depth discussion with <i>Cahiers du cinema</i> in 1963 to a new interview from 2007 and reveal Penn's ever-changing ideas on the nature of film and filmmaking. This volume also presents newly translated interviews from European film periodicals published in English for the first time.