The Directors Take One (Audible Audio Edition) Robert J Emery John Bell Audible Studios Books
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Today's most acclaimed film directors reveal intimate behind-the-scenes details of their most influential work and their unique approaches to their art.
In the companion to the Silver Plaque-winning Starz/Encore documentary series, this book offers interviews with 13 top filmmakers. Contains each director's filmography, complete listings of major awards, and cast credits for all films discussed.
The Directors Take One (Audible Audio Edition) Robert J Emery John Bell Audible Studios Books
Emery's THE DIRECTORS is a transcription of interviews conducted in the late 1990s with leading Hollywood directors. There is a basic introduction to the importance of the director interviewed followed by a chronological look at the major films he or she directed. Certain themes develop over the interviews. Casting is all-important, you have to be both lucky and good, and understanding the Zeitgeist helps immeasureably.The downfall of the book is that the interviews were never meant for print. This lack of literary precision is tolerable for a chapter or two, but then it starts to nag and becomes a nuisance that is hard to overcome.
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The Directors Take One (Audible Audio Edition) Robert J Emery John Bell Audible Studios Books Reviews
as good as the first one
This is one of three books assembled by Emery based on material generated during the production of the television series "The Directors" on the Encore Movie Channel. The others are The Directors Take One and Directors Take Two In Their Own Words. Emery's role was to pose the questions to which the directors responded and then edit transcripts of the given programs televised. Literally, the directors speak for themselves. That is to say, Emery (wisely, I think) eschews the standard Q & A format. Some readers will be especially interested in specific directors; others will be more interested in specific films; still others (I among them) will be interested in both the directors and the films they directed. Predictably the quality of the material varies, sometimes significantly. For example, in this volume, I found the general observations by Gary Marshall and Rob Reiner much more informative than those by John G. Avildsen and John McTierman. (Other readers may have an entirely different opinion. Fair enough.) The overall value of the book, however, is derived from having direct access to the thoughts and feelings of these directors and I regret that such access is not readily available -- in a single volume -- to so many other great directors (e.g. D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, Cecil B. DeMille, John Ford, Federico Fellini, and Ingmar Bergman) except, perhaps in full-scale biographies, critical studies, and/or in correpondence.
Fortunately, however, Peter Bogdanovich has published an excellent collection of his interviews of 16 directors (e.g. Raoul Walsh, Fritz Lang, Howard Hawks, George Cukor, and Alfred Hitchcock). Also, Richard Schickel has published another collection of his interviews of great directors such as Frank Capra, Vincente Minnelli, and King Vidor as well as of Cukor, Hawks, and Walsh.
One of Emery's most effective devices in both "Directors" volumes is "The Conversation," a section which introduces each director. It follows Emery's own brief but insightful introduction to "The Films of...." I am also grateful to Emery for not intruding (as editor) on the flow of information provided in each chapter. Sure, several portions of the book's narrative could have been "tightened up" but, in that event, the book would have lost much of its unique flavor and, worse yet, its vitality and spontaneity. I think both "Directors" volumes are first-rate and highly recommend them as well as the previously mentioned collections by Bogdanovich and Schickel.
This is one of three books assembled by Emery based on material generated during the production of the television series "The Directors" on the Encore Movie Channel. The others are The Directors Take Two and Directors Take Two In Their Own Words. Emery's role was to posed the questions to which the directors responded and then edit transcripts of the given programs televised. Literally, the directors speak for themselves. That is to say, Emery (wisely, I think) eschews the standard Q & A format. Some readers will be especially interested in specific directors; others will be more interested in specific films; still others (I among them) will be interested in both the directors and their films. Predictably the quality of the various directors' responses varies, sometimes significantly. For example, in this volume, for whatever reasons, Spike Lee's and Lawrence Kasdan's comments on their individual films are far more insightful than are those of Robert Wise and Sydney Pollack. However, because Emery also poses several specific subjects to which directors are asked to respond (e.g. "Why [Wise] Decided to Produce His Own Films" and "How Does [Pollack] Choose His Projects?"), Wise and Pollack are able to share with the reader perspectives and opinions that are probably otherwise unavailable. I was especially pleased to learn that Richard Donner considers Inside Moves (1908) "one of my greatest, dearest films." Featuring John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid, and Amy Wright among an ensemble cast, this film is one I include on my own list of the very best which few people have seen or even know of. One of Emery's most effective devices is "The Conversation," a section which introduces each director in his own words. I am grateful to Emery for not intruding (as editor) on the flow of information provided in each chapter. Sure, several portions of the book's narrative could have been "tightened up" but, in that event, I think the book would have lost much of its flavor and, worse yet, its vitality and spontaneity.
Emery's THE DIRECTORS is a transcription of interviews conducted in the late 1990s with leading Hollywood directors. There is a basic introduction to the importance of the director interviewed followed by a chronological look at the major films he or she directed. Certain themes develop over the interviews. Casting is all-important, you have to be both lucky and good, and understanding the Zeitgeist helps immeasureably.
The downfall of the book is that the interviews were never meant for print. This lack of literary precision is tolerable for a chapter or two, but then it starts to nag and becomes a nuisance that is hard to overcome.
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