Film Business

Lillian Ross was a staff writer at The New Yorker for seven decades, covering filmmakers with singular insight and humor. Film Business collects her essential pieces on the people who make the movies — from a 1948 report on Hollywood's reaction to HUAC, through legendary portraits of Otto Preminger and Francis Ford Coppola, to a 2001 visit to the set of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums. Featuring work on Kurosawa, Truffaut, Godard, Hitchcock, Fellini, Chaplin, Cassavetes, and many more.

With an introduction by Richard Brody, who writes of Ross's early recognition that the director is the center of gravity in cinema — an attunement to the art of movies that reads, across these pages, as something of a philosophy of life. Published by Film Desk Books.