Making Movies by Sidney Lumet (English) Paperback Book

Description: Making Movies by Sidney Lumet How is a movie made and what exactly does a director do? This book attempts to illuminate every circumstance, internal and external, emotional and technical, involved in the arduous process that culminates in what we see on the big screen. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description How is a movie made and what exactly does a director do? This book attempts to illuminate every circumstance, internal and external, emotional and technical, involved in the arduous process that culminates in what we see on the big screen. Only the director knows the background to the scenes, behind every passing frame of film, and the complex series of details and decisions involved, from budget considerations to divine inspiration, from the earliest rehearsal to the final screening. Sidney Lumets knowledge of the art and craft of directing is considerable, and here he discusses everything from art direction and wardrobe, shooting and editing, the verbal and mechanical soundtracks, to the distribution and marketing of a film and the role of the studio. Author Biography Sidney Lumets films have received more than fifty Academy Award nominations. He has been awarded an honorary lifetime membership in the Directors Guild of America and received its most prestigious honour, The D.W. Griffith Award, given for an entire body of work. He lives in New York. Kirkus US Review Making movies may be "hard work," as the veteran director continually reminds us throughout this slight volume, but Lumets simple-minded writing doesnt make much of a case for that or for anything else. Casual to a fault and full of movie-reviewer cliches, Lumets breezy how-to will be of little interest to serious film students, who will find his observations obvious and silly ("Acting is active, its doing. Acting is a verb"). Lumet purports to take readers through the process of making a movie, from concept to theatrical release - and then proceeds to share such trade secrets as his predilection for bagels and coffee before heading out to a set and his obsessive dislike for teamsters. Lumets vigorously anti-auteurist aesthetic suits his spotty career, though his handful of good movies (Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Prince of the City, and Q&A) seem to have quite a lot in common visually and thematically as gutsy urban melodramas. Lumets roots in the theater are obvious in many of his script choices, from Long Days Journey into Night to Childs Play, Equus, and Deathtrap. "I love actors," he declares, but dont expect any gossip, just sloppy kisses to Paul Newman, Al Pacino, and"Betty" Bacall. Lumet venerates his colleague from the so-called Golden Age of TV, Paddy Chayevsky, who scripted Lumets message-heavy Network Style, Lumet avers, is "the way you tell a particular story"; and the secret to critical and commercial success? "No one really knows." The ending of this book, full of empty praise for his fellow artists, reads like a dry run for an Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, the standard way of honoring a multi-Oscar loser. Theres a pugnacious Lumet lurking between the lines of this otherwise smarmy book, and that Lumet just might write a good one someday. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description How is a movie made, and what exactly does a director do? In Making Movies, Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of over thirty-five films including 12 Angry Men, Murder on the Orient Express,/i>, Dog Day Afternoon and The Verdict, provides the first and only book by a working, professional director to illuminate every circumstance, internal and external, emotional and technical, involved in the arduous process that culminates in what we see on the big screen. Only the director knows whats behind what an audience sees and hears with every passing frame of film. Only the director is aware of the complex series of details and decisions involved, from budget considerations to divine inspiration, from the earliest rehearsal to the final screening. Lumets knowledge of the art and craft of directing is encyclopaedic, and here he discusses with clarity and candour everything from art direction and wardrobe, shooting and editing, the verbal and mechanical sound tracks, to the distribution and marketing of a film and the role of the studio. Making Movies is at once a veritable textbok on the ins and outs of directing, and an engaging, focused personal examination of the work of the American film-maker. Of writers he says: I come from the theatre. There, the writers work is sacred. Of actors: I dont want a life reproduced up there on the screen. I want life created. And of the camera itself: If my movie has two stars in it, I always know it really has three. The third is the camera. This is a book that, like its author, is straightforward, wonderfully opinionated, unpretentious, and above all, in love with the movies. Details ISBN0747527679 Author Sidney Lumet Pages 240 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Year 1996 ISBN-10 0747527679 ISBN-13 9780747527671 Format Paperback Publication Date 1996-10-17 Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 791.4302 Illustrations Illustrations Language English UK Release Date 1996-10-17 NZ Release Date 1996-10-17 AU Release Date 1996-12-31 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:120932262;

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