Why does a director choose a particular script? What must they do in order to keep actors fresh and truthful through take after take of a single scene? How do you stage a shootout-involving more than one hundred extras and three colliding taxis-in the heart of New York's diamond district? What does it take to keep the studio honchos happy? From the first rehearsal to the final screening, Making Movies is a master's take, delivered with clarity, candor, and a wealth of anecdote.
For in this book, Sidney Lumet, one of our most consistently acclaimed directors, gives us both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on forty years of experience on movies that range from Long Day's Journey into Night to Network and The Verdict-and with such stars as Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino-Lumet explains how painstaking labor and inspired split-second decisions can result in two hours of screen magic.
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.
Show moreWhy does a director choose a particular script? What must they do in order to keep actors fresh and truthful through take after take of a single scene? How do you stage a shootout-involving more than one hundred extras and three colliding taxis-in the heart of New York's diamond district? What does it take to keep the studio honchos happy? From the first rehearsal to the final screening, Making Movies is a master's take, delivered with clarity, candor, and a wealth of anecdote.
For in this book, Sidney Lumet, one of our most consistently acclaimed directors, gives us both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on forty years of experience on movies that range from Long Day's Journey into Night to Network and The Verdict-and with such stars as Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino-Lumet explains how painstaking labor and inspired split-second decisions can result in two hours of screen magic.
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.
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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.
“Film would be a better place if every director were required to
share with other romancers of film his process. It is a gift to us
all that it is Sidney Lumet, one of American’s greatest filmmakers,
who is sharing his point-of-view.” —Stephen Spielberg
“Invaluable. . . . I am sometimes asked if there is one book a
filmgoer could read to learn more about how movies are made and
what to look for while watching them. This is the book.” —Roger
Ebert, The New York Times Book Review
“Remarkable . . . . as dignified as the movies [Lumet] has made and
yet deeply felt and very moving. . . . Anyone who truly loves
movies ought to read what he has to say about them. . . .
Delightfully engrossing.” —Los Angeles Times
“The film bible from a master. It tells in meticulous detail the
step-by-step process of making a movie. You feel you’re on the set.
A must.” —Quincy Jones
“Full of energy, enthusiasm and wisdom. . . . It’s all engrossing
because [Lumet] speaks so fervently and opinionatedly about matters
on which he has earned the right to opinions.” —The New Republic
Award-winning director Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon; The Verdict) serves as an unpretentious, anecdotal and sometimes irascible gide to the knotty process of getting a story on the screen. Brushing aside the auteur theory, he insists that filmmaking is a collaborative art involving technicians, actors and writers. Drawing upon almost 40 years' experience, the author lucidly explains the technical and aesthetic considerations in set design, cinematography and editing. As Lumet's movies are ample testimony to his love of language and actors, he unsurprisingly singles out such hyperbolic talents as screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky and actors Al Pacino and Katharine Hepburn, from whom he coaxed one of her bravest performances‘as the crumbling matriarch in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. But Lumet is not star-struck: ``If my movie has two stars in it, I always know it really has three. The third star is the camera.'' Remarkably informative and engrossing, even if film is not your bag. It's all here: lights, camera, action. (Mar.)
"Film would be a better place if every director were required to
share with other romancers of film his process. It is a gift to us
all that it is Sidney Lumet, one of American's greatest filmmakers,
who is sharing his point-of-view." -Stephen Spielberg
"Invaluable. . . . I am sometimes asked if there is one book a
filmgoer could read to learn more about how movies are made and
what to look for while watching them. This is the book." -Roger
Ebert, The New York Times Book Review
"Remarkable . . . . as dignified as the movies [Lumet] has made and
yet deeply felt and very moving. . . . Anyone who truly loves
movies ought to read what he has to say about them. . . .
Delightfully engrossing." -Los Angeles Times
"The film bible from a master. It tells in meticulous detail the
step-by-step process of making a movie. You feel you're on the set.
A must." -Quincy Jones
"Full of energy, enthusiasm and wisdom. . . . It's all engrossing
because [Lumet] speaks so fervently and opinionatedly about matters
on which he has earned the right to opinions." -The New
Republic
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