Making Movies
by Sidney Lumet
Recommended by Susan J. Fowler and Ava DuVernay
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Film History, Cinema, and Filmmaking.
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 m...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Film History, Cinema, and Filmmaking.
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Ava DuVernay
“Couldn’t resist one more. Two books for directing that helped me so much until I found my own language are MAKING MOVIES by the great Sidney Lumet and DIRECTING ACTORS by my former teacher @JudithWeston. | Here are my absolute favorite books I read in 2021! (I read a lot of amazing books this year, so this was a difficult list to make.)”
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