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Overview
An essential text on filmmaking that every student, scholar, and teacher of films should own. In it, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Howard Hawks, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Blake Edwards, Francois Truffaut, and René Clair answer questions on the decisions that all directors must make before filming a movie, questions that help the reader understand the concept of filmmaking. They cover all aspects of filmmaking including script choices, planning, casting, actor choices, editing, rehearsing, and music scoring. Garnett also elicited vital information on the directors' source of inspiration, how they started their career, their philosophy of filmmaking, and their objectives for making their films.
Synopsis
An essential text on filmmaking. In this book, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Howard Hawks, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Blake Edwards, Francois Truffaut, and RenZ Clair answer questions on the decisions that all directors must make before filming a movie, the directors' sources of inspiration, and their philosophy of filmmaking.
Library Journal
This latest entry in the scholarly "Filmmakers" series is a fascinating look inside the minds of some of the world's most prominent film directors. The book is essentially a compilation of 43 answers to a questionnaire developed by Garnett, the veteran director who shot the original The Postman Always Rings Twice. Respondants are both famous and obscure, from all eras and nationalities. Questions range from mundane ("What was your first film job?") to perceptive inquiries about personal philosophies of filmmaking, preferences in acting styles, and methods of working with crew members. Most of the responses were candid and make for interesting reading. While some of the information is outdated (Garnett died in 1977), most of the questions were so thoughtfully composed that the information garnered from them is timeless in nature. Recommended for large film collections.Cynthia Ward Cooper, Carrollton Libs., Tex.