Walter Donohue - Böcker

Projections 2 highlights Robert Altman, whose film The Player restored him to his proper place in cinema's pantheon. Actor Tim Robbins, who memorably incarnated Griffin Mill in The Player, has written, directed and acted in Bob Roberts, the script of which is printed here in full. And another actor, Willem Dafoe, describes how he approaches his craft.There are also pieces by Belgian director Jaco van Dormael, New Zealand director Alison Maclean and Australian director George Miller, who charts the journey he has made from Mad Max to the (then) eagerly awaited Lorenzo's Oil. Finally, Bertrand Tavernier's diary records the evolution of his controversial film L627 against the shifting European cultural landscape.

Projections is a forum for film-makers in which the practitioners of cinema write about their craft. In this edition we celebrate the centenary of film with articles ranging from an interview with Louis Lumière - the inventor of the cinema - to James Toback's tales of contemporary Hollywood. Included in Projections 4:Louis Lumière - Founding FatherMartin Scorsese - AnamorphobiaJames Toback - A Journal for 1994Penn on PennKen Burns - Raising the DeadSidney Howard - The Gone with the Wind Letters and The Story Gets a TreatmentLouis Malle, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Fred Berner, Larry Pine - Chekhov's ChildrenWalter Murch - Sound Design: The Dancing ShadowEddie Fowlie - Playing Cowboys and IndiansJohn Seale - Lunch and a BookGene Kelly - An American in ParadiseSally Potter - The Tango LessonFederico Fellini - Creation and the ArtistViggo Mortensen - Missing Sandy DennisLindsay Anderson - On John FordThis edition also includes contributions by Percy Adlon, Kevin Brownlow, Roger Corman, Alex Cox, Andre de Toth, Nora Ephron, Monte Hellman, Huang Mingchuan, Richard Lowenstein, Dusan Makavejev, Arthur Penn, Vincent Sherman, Istvan Szabo, Michael Tolkin, Vincent Ward and Fred Zinneman.

When the door of the Lumière factory opened to release the workers, it was more than just the end of the day - it was the beginning of a brand new art form that has shaped the consciousness of the twentieth century. This very first moment of the very first film gave birth to other moments that are cherished in the recollections of people all over the world. In this issue we collaborated with the French film magazine Positif.The centrepiece of this issue came to us from Positif. For their 400th issue Positif asked the film-makers with whom they had forged a special relationship over the past forty years to write about the films, directors and actors who have had a special significance for them. An array of seventy international film-makers - including Altman and Angelopoulos, Chabrol and the Coens, Eastwood and Frears, Kazan and Kieslowski, Leigh and Loach, Makavejev and Marker, Ophuls and Penn, Resnais and Rohmer, Rosi and Rudolph, Tavernier and the Tavianis, Varda and Zulawski, among others - responded, and we present this treasure trove of film-making comment as a way of celebrating the 100 years of cinema.1995 was also the centenary of Buster Keaton. In honour of this, Kevin Brownlow - noted film-maker, historian and restorer of the silent cinema - recounts the making of Keaton's masterpiece, The General.

PROJECTIONS is a forum for film-makers where - like dispatches from the front - practitioners of cinema write about their craft. In this year's issue there is a special focus on the art of animation, with interviews with the father-figure of stop-motion animation, Ray Harryhausen, and its leading exponents in Britain, Nick Park, and in the US, Henry Selick. Jamie Lee Curtis & Tony Curtis - Some Like It DarkQuentin Tarantino & Brian de Palma - Emotion PicturesRay Harryhausen - Animation and DynamationNick Park - A Lot Can Happen in a SecondHenry Selick - Bringing Things to Life by HandSimon Pummell - Cutting Off Their Tails with a Carving KnifeAnnaud On AnnaudFred Zinnemann - A Little Tea, A Little ChatJames Stewart - Learning Your CraftTodd Haynes, Julianne Moore, Christine Vachon - Making SafeChris Buck - PortfolioWilliam Wellman - A TributeWalter Donohue - Adventures in a Light IndustryLouis Malle - In Memoriam