Spielberg, Truffaut & Me

by BALABAN, BOB

• ISBN13: 9781840234305
• ISBN10: 184023430X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Titan Books

Summary

"THE GREATEST SCI-FI MOVIE EVER MADE" - TOTAL FILM. A rare 'making of' book written from an actor's eye view, Balaban (who played Laughlin in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, opposite the legendary Francois Truffaut as Lacombe) provides the most detailed account of Steven Spielberg at work yet published, includes a fascinating portrait of the late Truffaut, and superbly captures just what it's really like to make a sci-fi blockbuster. Since all journalists and writers were barred from the shooting of the movie, actor Bob Balaban's often hilarious diary is the only on-the-spot account of the making of Steven Spielberg's classic sci-fi phenomenon. Originally published in 1978, and out of print since then, Titan is proud to bring this brilliantly written and hugely entertaining book back into print in a revised, expanded edition, with a new afterword and many new pictures.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(1)
Introduction	8	(2)
Steven Spielberg
Foreword	10	(2)
Pre-Production	12	(8)
Gillette, Wyoming	20	(16)
Mobile, Alabama	36	(35)
Picture Section	71	(42)
Mobile, Alabama (continued)	113	(19)
India	132	(10)
Post-Production	142	(12)
Epilogue	154	(6)
Looking Back	160	(12)
The Cast and Crew	172