The Sundance Kids : how the mavericks took back Hollywood
Mottram covers the same territory Sharon Waxman did in 2005's 'Rebels on the Backlot', including extensive considerations of directors Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino, but the British film journalist adds several filmmakers into the mix, including Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson, concentrating primarily on hot young talents discovered at the Sundance Film Festival. He's also more interested in what's on the screen than Waxman was, so nearly every chapter has lengthy analyses of the movies discussed. Mottram also covers the F-64 filmmakers collective, Soderbergh and other directors' abortive effort to maintain artistic control, and screenwriter-auteur Charlie Kaufman
Print Book, English, 2006
Faber & Faber, Inc., NY, 2006