CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/20/2018

From Kenneth Anger to Agnès Varda: Jonas Mekas' 'Conversations with Film-makers'

Every once in a while we get a book that stops us in our tracks and causes an office-wide slowdown as we pass the finished copy around the office. Spector Books' Conversations with Film-makers by Jonas Mekas is one such book. A collection of Mekas' legendary 60s and 70s "Movie Journal" columns for the Village Voice, this volume gets everything right. Printed on newsprint and glossy paper and designed to look like vintage Voice, the book contains interviews with everyone from Kenneth Anger to Stan Brakhage, John Cassavetes, Tony Conrad, Richard Foreman, the Maysles brothers, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Harry Smith, Jack Smith, Susan Sontag, Agnès Varda, Viva and Andy Warhol, to name but a few.