My First Movie: Take Two
, . . Pantheon, $26 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-375-42347-5
In this thoroughly engaging set of long-form interviews, Lowenstein coaxes a second volume of candid responses out of some of the best directors working today on the subject of their first feature films. As an interviewer, Lowenstein, a British writer and director, has a gift for rigor, and he leads his subjects to explore the details of their early careers, from their primitive student films to the finished product of studio-distributed movies. Richard Linklater sets the pace in the first piece with an exhilarating argument for taking the independent path-less-traveled, while Terry Gilliam speaks eloquently of the difficulties of breaking out of the sketch comedy expectations set by his work with Monty Python. In other pieces,
Reviewed on: 11/26/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
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