My First Movie, Take Two: Ten Celebrated Directors TAlk About Their First Film (Vintage)

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My First Movie, Take Two: Ten Celebrated Directors TAlk About Their First Film (Vintage)

by Stephen Lowenstein

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A sequel to the critically acclaimed My First Movie, Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films. Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launching film and how they got the movie off the ground: how they raised the finance, found actors, searched for locations, worked with the crew and saw the proje...more

Paperback, 320 pages

Published January 6th 2009 by Vintage

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Aug 15, 2010

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This past year I filmed two short films while in high school. The first one shows all my mistakes, my errors, and my immaturity in film. The second one, while still not magnificent, shows my growth. I’m an aspiring filmmaker and when I saw this book on the shelves of my public library, I grabbed the book and started reading. By Pantheon Books, edited by Stephen Lowenstein, who crafted My First Movie: Take Two by interviewing ten significant directors from around the world and asking them how the...moreThis past year I filmed two short films while in high school. The first one shows all my mistakes, my errors, and my immaturity in film. The second one, while still not magnificent, shows my growth. I’m an aspiring filmmaker and when I saw this book on the shelves of my public library, I grabbed the book and started reading. By Pantheon Books, edited by Stephen Lowenstein, who crafted My First Movie: Take Two by interviewing ten significant directors from around the world and asking them how they arrived to making their first film.

From each director’s story of his or her first film, you get a feeling of resurgence. After researching about the film industry and the career of a film director over this past year, I’ve read so much negativity. The difficulty of the job breaks many hopes, and the people in the industry break the rest. It’s definitely a tough industry to break into and much more become successful, yet with such a variety of life experiences, these ten directors show the light of possibility. While one director graduated from USC’s film school, another graduated with a degree in accounting. Another didn’t even pursue a degree. The routes are all different and some were more bizarre than others. This is really enlightening and at the same time an eye-opener. Many of the directors admit that their first film WAS tough, yet they were able to accomplish it. Knowing that film directors with breakthrough first films admit that, makes me believe that whatever speed bump I hit, while it may be unique to my path, has appeared differently in many other film director’s careers. That there aren’t people that just make it. There’s people that hit and miss, there’s people that don’t even have a degree in film, there’s people that have tough backgrounds and difficult shoots.

My only regret in reading this book was not having watched all these director’s first movies prior to reading. I suggest you watch the movie, then read the director’s interview with Lowenstein because the movie’s plot and characters will be referenced at times in the interview. Another tip is to keep a journal handy: some directors provide some very helpful tips and very interesting quotes.

My next step after reading this book is to try and watch as many of the first films of these directors as I can and continue walking down the path I’m on as a future filmmaker. I know that my current route to the film industry while not a mirror image of any of these filmmakers is as optimistic as any other.

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