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Making movies

Author: Sidney Lumet
Publisher: New York : Vintage eBooks, [2010]
Edition/Format:  eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Sidney Lumet
ISBN: 9780307763662 0307763668
OCLC Number: 680643563
Description: 1 online resource (176 pages)
Contents: The director: the best job in the world --
The script: are writers necessary? --
Style: the most misused word since love --
Actor: can an actor really be shy? --
The camera: your best friend --
Art direction and clothes: does Faye Dunaway really have the skirt taken in in sixteen different places? --
Shooting the movie: at last! --
Rushes: the agony and the ecstasy --
The cutting room: alone at last --
The sound of music: the sound of sound --
The mix: the only dull part of moviemaking --
The answer print: here comes the baby --
The studio: was it all for this?
Responsibility: Sidney Lumet.

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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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