How to evaluate a movie, what more professional angles can we have when watching a movie, and what is the process of a movie from script to post-production...... These "front-line" problems may be able to let director Jia Zhangke tell us. This "Movie, I Know a Thing or Two" is based on the previous audio program of the same name "Look at the Ideal", and was revised by Jia Zhangke himself, as well as adding new content.
In the book, Jia Zhangke starts from his own experience in the industry for nearly 30 years, and takes hundreds of classic film and television works as cases to share the process of film development and artistic creation. Among them, you can see Jia Zhangke's own private "film list", and you can also see Jia Zhangke's own thinking and interpretation of classic films such as "Xiao Wu", "Platform", and "Children of Jianghu", which will be a rare angle for domestic film fans and students.
At the same time, Jia Zhangke also pointed out the key to the authenticity of the film by the French film critic André Bazin's long-lens theory and depth of field, and analyzed the significance of the "film authorship theory" proposed by Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol and others during the French New Wave period for the film director as the main creator and finalizer. The book also focuses on the movement genes of film, what kind of language film is, the difference between documentary and film, and the innovation and rebellion of film.
To a certain extent, this is also Jia Zhangke's own film study notes, and the 17 parts included in the book all reflect Jia Zhangke's thoughts on the art of film, the industry, and the entire film industry. Especially these come from a director who is active in the present, which seems more concrete and realistic.
Also noteworthy is the book's binding, the cover of which was designed by book designer Lu Zhichang, and a hot silver square symbolizes a "miniature movie screen", "inviting everyone to enter Jia Zhangke's cinematic world". The book is also printed in four colors, with more than 100 stills and pictures, and the reading process will also be a journey of appreciation of the aesthetics of cinema.
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