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FILM AND VIDEO DIRECTORS

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DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

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Hardcover, 7 x 10 in. / 208 pgs / 228 color / 100 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 8   

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ISBN 9781636810607 TRADE
List Price: $39.95 CAD $57.95 GBP £35.00

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Los Angeles, CA
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, 11/03/23–01/05/25

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Agnès Varda: Director's Inspiration

Edited with introduction by Matt Severson. Foreword by Jacqueline Stewart. Text by Sasha Archibald, Jane Birkin, Sandrine Bonnaire, Manohla Dargis, Peter Debruge, Mathieu Demy, Julia Fabry, JR, Lynne Littman, Didier Rouget, Martin Scorsese, Rosalie Varda, Viva, Chloé Zhao. Interview by Manouchka Kelly Labouba.

Agnès Varda: Director's Inspiration

A visual tribute to Agnès Varda’s three lives as a photographer, filmmaker and artist, with previously unseen archival materials, texts and personal reflections from Jane Birkin, Martin Scorsese, JR and more

French filmmaker Agnès Varda was a trailblazer who broke new artistic and cinematic ground for nearly seven decades. Although closely associated with the French New Wave, Varda established her groundbreaking visual style in her 1955 debut film La Pointe Courte, well before other milestones such as François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Varda impacted cinema from her first feature film through her final works, with an expansive oeuvre that includes Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985) and the Academy Award–nominated Faces Places (2017).
Agnès Varda: Director’s Inspiration presents the first English-language visual showcase for Varda’s inspirations, art and personal life, incorporating original materials from her personal archive on rue Daguerre. The book covers Varda’s "three lives"—as photographer, filmmaker and visual artist—and features a previously unpublished interview Varda gave to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on the eve of receiving her Honorary Oscar in 2017. Essays by author Sasha Archibald and film critic Peter Debruge examine facets of Varda’s creative lives, and personal reflections by friends and colleagues illustrate what it was like to collaborate with and be inspired by Varda.
Agnès Varda (1928–2019) was a French filmmaker, photographer and visual artist, sometimes called the grandmother of the French New Wave. In 2018, her film with the French photographer and muralist known as JR, Faces Places, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature, and that same year she received an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement.


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Bookforum

Christina Catherine Martinez

A tension between lightness and rigor informs 'Agnès Varda: Director’s Inspiration'...capturing the spirit of Varda’s difficult, feminist, and paradoxically coy ethos.

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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/23/2024

Book Soup presents Matt Severson and Peter Debruge on 'Agnès Varda: Director’s Inspiration'

Book Soup presents Matt Severson and Peter Debruge on 'Agnès Varda: Director’s Inspiration'

Thursday, January 25 at 7 PM, Book Soup presents Agnès Varda: Director’s Inspiration editor Matt Severson and essayist and Variety Chief Film Critic Peter Debruge in conversation about the trailblazing French filmmaker who broke new artistic and cinematic ground for nearly seven decades.
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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/9/2023

The Academy Museum presents 'Agnes Varda: Director's Inspiration Book Signing and Conversation'

The Academy Museum presents 'Agnes Varda: Director's Inspiration Book Signing and Conversation'

Saturday, December 9 at 2PM, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will celebrate the release of Agnès Varda: Director’s Inspiration with a conversation on Varda’s art, life and legacy with book editor Matt Severson and contributing authors Manohla Dargis and Peter Debruge. Purchase tickets here.
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