Making Movies
by LUMET, SIDNEYEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-03-19
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on 40 years of experience on movies ranging from Long Day's Journey Into Night to The Verdict, Lumet explains the painstaking labor that results in two hours of screen magic.
Author Biography
Sidney Lumet’s films have received more than fifty Academy Award nominations. He has been nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director seven times. In addition, he has received an honorary lifetime membership in the Directors Guild of America as well as its most prestigious award, the D. W. Griffith Award. In 1993, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Arts Club. His films have been shown in retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the American Museum of the Moving Image, the British Academy in London, and the Cinémathèque in Paris. He has also been honored by the French government as a Commander of Arts and Letters. He died in 2011.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| The Director: The Best Job in the World | p. 3 |
| The Script: Are Writers Necessary? | p. 28 |
| Style: The Most Misused Word Since Love | p. 49 |
| Actors: Can an Actor Really Be Shy? | p. 59 |
| The Camera: Your Best Friend | p. 75 |
| Art Direction and Clothes: Does Faye Dunaway Really Have the Skirt Taken in in Sixteen Different Places? | p. 94 |
| Shooting the Movie: At Last! | p. 105 |
| Rushes: The Agony and the Ecstasy | p. 137 |
| The Cutting Room: Alone at Last | p. 148 |
| The Sound of Music: The Sound of Sound | p. 170 |
| The Mix: The Only Dull Part of Moviemaking | p. 186 |
| The Answer Print: Here Comes the Baby | p. 193 |
| The Studio: Was It All for This? | p. 198 |
| Films Directed by Sidney Lumet | p. 219 |
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