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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Author and editor Richard T. Kelly highlights the ways in which Faber and Faber’s unique status as the preeminent publisher of film writing continues on FilmInFocus.
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Faber library
Selections from Faber and Faber’s vast back and current catalogue of published books.
Great Directors
Faber and Faber’s spotlight on the writings and works of our favorite filmmakers.
The Sky Over Berlin: Wim Wenders and Wings of Desire
The seminal German director on one of his greatest films.
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- Elizabeth Taylor and National Velvet
- Ken Adam on Goldfinger
- "Pure Wasted Insanity": Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch
- Katherine Hepburn and The African Queen
- Gone With the Wind's Sidney Howard on Screenwriting
- Natalie Wood and "Something Extra"
- The Man Behind the Monster: James Whale and Frankenstein
- Layers Upon Layers: The Cinema of François Ozon
- Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge
- Hepburn and Cukor: Muse and Filmmaker
- Remembering River Phoenix
- Rip van Marlowe: Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye
- Andrei Tarkovsky on Stalker
- Persona and the Wordless Secrets of Cinema
- Robert Mitchum: Prisoner # 91234
- Arthur Penn: "The American Truffaut"
- Irving Thalberg: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
- Herzog on Cinema
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- Hangmen Also Die: The Short-Lived Alliance of Fritz Lang and Bertolt Brecht
- Hitchcock's Tricks on The Man Who Knew Too Much
- Mike Figgis: The Awards Season
- Mike Leigh: Playing Cowboys & Indians
- Alexander Payne: The Fight to be Original
- Godard & Breathless: "A boy who thinks about death"
- David Lynch's Dune: "Really Great Wood"
- The Casbah, Rocked: Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers
- Departing The Dark: Tim Burton on Big Fish
- 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
Sean Penn
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Faber and Faber Exclusives
Fassbinder: Shoot Fast, Die Young
Remembering the imploding star of the German New Wave.
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Jane Russell: Gentlemen Prefer Brunettes
Walter Donohue on Jane Russell.
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