Making movies / Sidney Lumet.

By:

Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1996.Description: x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:

0679756604
9780679756606

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.430233092

LOC classification:

PN 1995.9 L957m 1996

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 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?

Summary: Why does a director choose a particular script? What must he or she do to keep actors fresh and truthful through take after take of a single scene? How do you stage a shoot-out -- 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 honchoes happy? For this book, director Sidney Lumet, provides a memoir and guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on decades 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 labor and split-second decisions can result in hours of screen magic

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 1995.9 L957m 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000014959

Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995

Includes bibliographical references, filmography.

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 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?

Why does a director choose a particular script? What must he or she do to keep actors fresh and truthful through take after take of a single scene? How do you stage a shoot-out -- 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 honchoes happy? For this book, director Sidney Lumet, provides a memoir and guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on decades 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 labor and split-second decisions can result in hours of screen magic

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