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Title: Who the Devil Made It : Conversations with Legendary Film Directors by PETER BOGDANOVICH ISBN: 0-345-40457-2 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Devil is in the Details
Comment: You can spend years going to film school, or you can read this book! Bogdanovich does a great job with this collection of interviews of great film directors. Not only does the book give you a good inside view of the craft of cinema, but it also acts as a history book of the film industry.
This book would be good for the serious indie director who has bet his/her credit cards on their dream or even the special person in your life who stays up until 4am watching the Turner Classic Movie channel.
There is something here for everyone as there is a wide range of directors who work in a wide range of styles. There isn't a genre that isn't touched in this book - from Hitchcock on Horror to Chuck Jones on cartoons. What's great is that Bogdanovich captures insight into directors that are no longer with us (like Fritz Lang who directed Metropolis). Since the directors tell their own stories, you don't get the Hollywood hype filter.
If you had to buy one book on film this year, this would be it!
Rating: 4
Summary: A treasury of film knowledge and personalities
Comment: Peter Bogdanovich has written a book that is for the movie enthusiast. I suspect the general reader may find some of the interviewees obscure, and the topics technical. I feel that is their loss. For the student of film or film history, this is a treasure trove of information, ideas, experiences, and feelings about films taken from interviews with some of the most distinguished directors in movie history. The author's selection is not encyclopedic, but the directors' experience spans from the earliest years of silent film to the present. These men are not just informative, but their strong and distinctive personalities show in each interview, giving the sense that one has actually met and understood many of them. Some of the interviews are brief, or even very idiosyncratic, but the best are delightfully personal. This is a long book, but affords many pleasant evenings of good conversation. It also makes one want to go back and see the films again!
Rating: 4
Summary: Critical access to the creative process
Comment: Regardless of one's feelings about the egomania of author Bogdanovich (and it certainly bleeds through every page), he provides the creative world a great service by sharing his many years of interviews with some of the masters of American Film.
Contained within these pages is a critical access to the creative process. Each director interviewed (obviously some more than others) provides invaluable insight into the nuts and bolts of film directing. Bogdanovich has compiled with this book, an indispensable historical document that does much to inspire, educate and guide any aspiring film director.
I particularly valued Alan Dwan's insights into the importance of communicating character relationships into the narrative. I have incorperated much of the late director's invaluable advice into my attempts at stage direction.
All in all a must have for anybody interested in directing or gaining insight into the creative process.
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Title: This is Orson Welles by Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Rosenbaum ISBN: 030680834X Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: HITCHCOCK (REVISED EDITION) by Helen G. Scott, Francois Truffaut ISBN: 0671604295 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 02 October, 1985 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week: 52 Classic Films for One Full Year by Peter Bogdanovich ISBN: 0345432053 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Scorsese on Scorsese : Revised Edition by David Thompson, Ian Christie ISBN: 0571220029 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 14 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Films in My Life by Francois Truffaut, Leonard Mayhew ISBN: 0306805995 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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