Making Movies

More than fifty Academy Award nominations have been given to Sidney Lumet's films. He has been nominated for Best Director by the Directors Guild of America seven times. In addition, he has been honored with an honorary lifetime membership in the Directors Guild of America, as well as the guild's most prestigious award, the D. W. Griffith Award. He received the National Arts Club's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993.

Why does a director select a specific script? What must they do to keep actors fresh and true in take after take of a single scene? How do you stage a shootout in the heart of New York's diamond district with over a hundred extras and three colliding taxis? What does it take to please the studio executives? Making Movies is a master's take, delivered with clarity, candor, and a wealth of anecdote from the first rehearsal to the final screening.

Sidney Lumet, one of our most consistently acclaimed directors, provides us with both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture in this book. Lumet explains how painstaking labor and inspired split-second decisions can result in two hours of screen magic, drawing on forty years of experience on films ranging from Long Day's Journey into Night to Network and The Verdict, and with stars such as Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino.

Author: Sidney Lumet

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