About this title: Based on a series of classes Mamet taught at Columbia University's film school, "On Directing Film" employs his unique perspective as a playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own films--"House of Games" and "Things Change"--to illuminate how a film comes to be. Mamet examines each step--from script to cutting room--through the lens of a ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780140127225ISBN:0140127224
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780140127225ISBN:0140127224
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 1992-01-01
ISBN-13:9780140127225ISBN:0140127224
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult, New York
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780670830336ISBN:067083033X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780670830336ISBN:067083033X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780140127225ISBN:0140127224
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"A short and oddly beautiful treatise about the essence of storytelling. And it's applicable to any story. I think I liked it better for how he goes about telling what's NOT needed as much as what he says is needed, with examples.
His guiding principle is very simple, nearly absurdly simple, so I think the examples give it enough meat to be understandable. I loved the section about how people try to make sense out of everything they're given.
"This short collection of essays is both sort of useful and unintentionally hilarious. Mamet has, or at least had, a very specific, dogmatic notion of how films should be directed. For every point he makes, I could think of plenty of counterexamples. So, a good chuckle, this.
I picked this up on the outdoor remainders table of Biography, in the West Village, this past summer, $5.95 + tax."
"Mamet's writerly perspective on directing is interesting and it turns out that he's quite fond of Eisenstein's method of editing, although I wouldn't have guessed that from watching his movies. He always brings an original viewpoint although he can be a bit verbose and overwrought."
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