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Dear Orson Welles & Other Essays

MARK COUSINS

In this wide-ranging, stylish and iconoclastic book, Cousins reflects on his prolific career in filmmaking, meditating on the actors, directors, films, writers and philosophers that have influenced him, as well as on other adventures in filmland and on creativity in general.

$36.00

978-1-7393537-2-8 Hardback 448 pages
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From recollections of his childhood in Belfast to practical filmmaking advice for new directors, to the complexities of representing trauma on screen, this is a book that will captivate readers interested in both contemporary film and the history of cinema.

Cousins’ essays are in conversation with iconic artistic figures, particularly Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual; and Orson Welles, an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is also in dialogue with D.H. Lawrence; film-directors Stanley Donen, Agnès Varda, Paul Schrader and Quentin Tarantino; actors Amy Adams, Channing Tatum, Nicole Kidman and Dennis Hopper; and last but not least, himself.

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About The Author

A globally acclaimed Scottish-Irish director, writer and wanderer, Mark Cousins was born in 1965, raised in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and has lived in Scotland since the early 1980s. His 24 feature-length films (as well as 30 short films) and 40 hours of television – including The Story of Film: An Odyssey, What is This Film Called Love?, Life May Be, A Story of Children and Film, Atomic, Stockholm My Love, I Am Belfast and The Eyes of Orson Welles – have premiered in Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Venice film festivals and have won the Prix Italia, a Peabody, the Persistence of Vision Award in San Francisco, the Maverick Award in Dublin, the Stanley Kubrick Award, and the European Film Award for Innovative Storytelling as well as many other prizes. He has filmed in Iraq, Sarajevo during the siege, Iran, Mexico, across Asia and in America and Europe. He continues to live in Edinburgh.

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About The Author

A globally acclaimed Scottish-Irish director, writer and wanderer, Mark Cousins was born in 1965, raised in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and has lived in Scotland since the early 1980s. His 24 feature-length films (as well as 30 short films) and 40 hours of television – including The Story of Film: An Odyssey, What is This Film Called Love?, Life May Be, A Story of Children and Film, Atomic, Stockholm My Love, I Am Belfast and The Eyes of Orson Welles – have premiered in Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Venice film festivals and have won the Prix Italia, a Peabody, the Persistence of Vision Award in San Francisco, the Maverick Award in Dublin, the Stanley Kubrick Award, and the European Film Award for Innovative Storytelling as well as many other prizes. He has filmed in Iraq, Sarajevo during the siege, Iran, Mexico, across Asia and in America and Europe. He continues to live in Edinburgh.

Weight 820 g
Dimensions 223 × 147 × 53 mm