Making Movies

by LUMET, SIDNEY

• ISBN13: 9780679756606
• ISBN10: 0679756604
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-19
• Publisher: Vintage

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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