Making Movies

Release Date:- 1995-03-14

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ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME ā€¢ ā€œInvaluable.... I am sometimes asked if there is one book a filmgoer could read to learn more about how movies are made and what to look for while watching them. This is the book.ā€ ā€”Roger Ebert, The New York Times Book Review

Why does a director choose a particular script? What must they do in order to keep actors fresh and truthful through take after take of a single scene? How do you stage a shootoutā€”involving more than one hundred extras and three colliding taxisā€”in the heart of New Yorkā€™s diamond district? What does it take to keep the studio honchos happy? From the first rehearsal to the final screening, Making Movies is a masterā€™s take, delivered with clarity, candor, and a wealth of anecdote.

For in this book, Sidney Lumet, one of our most consistently acclaimed directors, gives us both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on forty years of experience on movies that range from Long Dayā€™s Journey into Night to Network and The Verdictā€”and with such stars as Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacinoā€”Lumet explains how painstaking labor and inspired split-second decisions can result in two hours of screen magic.

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