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A writer-director from Copenhagen, Denmark, MIKAEL COLVILLE-ANDERSEN embarked in 1999 on a journey to meet the six greatest living screenwriters in Europe and shoot a documentary. Jean-Claude Carrière was one of them, if not the greatest of the lot. Colville-Andersen has been involved in film and television for over twenty years, and, after graduating from the National Film School of Denmark, he turned his focus to the screenwriting craft and the inspiration gained from his meetings with the masters. NICK DAWSON writes a weekly interview column, The Director Interviews, for Filmmaker Magazine, and is an editor at FilmInFocus.com. Originally from the United Kingdom, he has written for Empire, Uncut, the London Times and the Scotsman, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. His biography of Hal Ashby, Being Hal Ashby, was published by the University of Kentucky Press in 2009. F-STOP FITZGERALD’s Web site is www.f-stopfitzgerald.com. The work of freelance writer WILLIAM HAM has appeared in Lollipop, McSweeney’s Internet Concern, Ben Is Dead, and the Cambridge Book Review, among others. Ham is also the cofounder of The High Hat, a sporadically published Web site dealing with popular culture (www.thehighhat .com); a contributor to the book Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed; and the host of Wow and Flutter, a biweekly music-comedy show on KMUN-FM, Astoria Oregon. He lives in Ilwaco, Washington, “if you call that living,” he says. LEE HILL interviewed Terry Southern for Backstory 3. He is the author of A Grand Guy, a biography of Southern, and a BFI Modern Classic on Easy Rider. Currently based in London, England, he works as a writer and communications consultant. He has contributed to Senses of Cinema, Vertigo, 235 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS McGilligan_Contri 8/7/09 11:48 AM Page 235 Scenario, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Guardian, Cinemascope, and other outlets. VINCENT LOBRUTTO is an instructor of editing, production design, and cinema studies for the Department of Film, Video, and Animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he is a thesis advisor and member of the Thesis Committee. He is the author of Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing; By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers; Soundon -Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound; Stanley Kubrick: A Biography; Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers; The Filmmaker’s Guide to Production Design; The Encyclopedia of American Independent Filmmaking; Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures; Martin Scorsese: A Biography; and The Art of Motion Picture Editing. A special member of American Cinema Editors (ACE), LoBrutto is the editor of CinemaEditor magazine and a contributor to American Cinematographer, Film Quarterly, and Films in Review. Himself a screenwriter, TOM MATTHEWS wrote the 1997 film Mad City, starring Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta, which was directed by CostasGavras . He has written scripts for Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers, New Line Cinema, Twentieth Century Fox, and Walt Disney Pictures. His acclaimed satirical novel, Like We Care, was published in 2004 by Bancroft Press. His freelance articles have appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee Magazine, Creative Screenwriting, and Classic Drummer. For six years he was the managing editor of Boxoffice Magazine in Hollywood. The editor of the Backstory series, author PATRICK MCGILLIGAN has written numerous books about film, including the New York Times Notable Books George Cukor: A Double Life and Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; the Edgar-nominated Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; and, most recently, Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only, which was cited by the New York Public Library as among the “25 Books to Remember” from 2007. With Paul Buhle he also edited the definitive oral history Tender Comrades, A Backstory of the Blacklist. McGilligan lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. GAVIN SMITH is editor of Film Comment. 236 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS McGilligan_Contri 8/7/09 11:48 AM Page 236 ...

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