Conversations with Filmmakers Series
The Conversations with Filmmakers Series is part of the University Press of Mississippi which is sponsored by Mississippi's eight state universities. The mission of the Series is to publish collected interviews with world-famous directors. The current Filmmakers Series editor is Gerald Peary, a noted film critic and Professor of Communications and Journalism at Suffolk University, Boston. Peary was appointed to this position following the death of the Series' original general editor, Dr. Peter Brunette. Background The series was launched in 1998 with Gerald Peary's Quentin Tarantino: Interviews. It was favorably reviewed by MovieMaker magazine which found a balance and depth throughout saying, "Contemporary giants like Soderbergh, Oliver Stone and John Sayles are treated with just as much esteem as legends like Wilder and John Huston." Interviewees J.J. Abrams Robert Aldrich Woody Allen Pedro Almodóvar Robert Altman Theo Angelopoulos Michelangelo Antonioni Dorothy Arzner Hal Ashby Ingmar Bergman Bernardo Bertolucci Peter Bogdanovich Kathryn Bigelow Danny Boyle Stan Brakhage Charles Burnett Tim Burton James Cameron Jane Campion Frank Capra John Cassavetes Claude Chabrol Charlie Chaplin The Coen Brothers Francis Ford Coppola Sofia Coppola Roger Corman Wes Craven David Cronenberg George Cukor Jonathan Demme Clint Eastwood Blake Edwards Atom Egoyan Asghar Farhadi Federico Fellini