About Faber and FaberFounded in 1929, Faber and Faber has been a publisher of distinction for nearly 80 years. One of the UK's leading independent houses, Faber publishes Fiction, Non-fiction, Children's titles, and specialist lists of Poetry, Drama, Music, and Film. Faber has been the publisher of eleven Nobel laureates for Literature, among them Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, and Harold Pinter. The company's publishing of books about cinema began in the 1930s, including a book by Michael Powell about the making of his The Edge of the World (1937). But it became a fully-fledged list in the mid-1980s, expressly dedicated to publishing the writings, reflections and opinions of the world's leading filmmakers, in their own words: from Scorsese on Scorsese and Lynch on Lynch to the annual journal Projections, Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit, and Mike Figgis's Digital Film-Making.
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Faber library
Selections from Faber and Faber’s vast back and current catalogue of published books.
Zoetrope: Coppola's Cinema Utopia
An extract from the Faber Library on the formation of Coppola’s dream factory.
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A Dark Day: Producer JoAnne Sellar on River Phoenix and Dark Blood
Remembering River Phoenix, 15 years after his death.
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Faber and Faber’s spotlight on the writings and works of our favorite filmmakers.
David Lynch's Dune: "Really Great Wood"
David Lynch recalls the experience of making Dune.
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The Casbah, Rocked: Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers
A look at Pontecorvo's controversial classic.
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- An Unintended Battle-Cry: Chaplin's The Great Dictator
- Paul Newman 1925-2008: The Elder Statesman
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- Sleeping and Severed Toes: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen on the Art of Screenwriting
- "If He Swallows It, I'll Buy It": The Mae West Legend Begins
- The Inside Story of Do The Right Thing
- Alexander Mackendrick on Sweet Smell of Success
- Cannes 1968: Fighting on the Beaches
- David Lean and the Making of Lawrence of Arabia
- Alison Owen on Elizabeth
- In Memoriam: Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
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- Hampton on Hampton
- When Viggo Met Sean
- Patrick McGrath on David Cronenberg's Spider
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- Departing The Dark: Tim Burton on Big Fish
- Alex Cox: Dedicated to the Struggle
- Christopher Nolan: Damaged Goods Behind the Batman Mask
- Gus Van Sant: Swimming Against the Current
- Murphy's Law: Paul Verhoeven and RoboCop
- Paul Schrader on Bob Crane and Auto Focus
- Sydney Pollack (1934 - 2008)
- Anthony Minghella, 1954-2008
- Cronenberg on Cronenberg
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Jonathan Carter goes into reverse gear as he sees old movies in new ways.
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Tarantino tells Brian DePalma about the severed ear and other film cuts.
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