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Light Years by Tom McDonough
This account of filmmaking and the consequences/sacrifices/gratifications of being a filmmaker (yes, there are consequences/sacrifices) is a rare commodity amidst the abundant supply of anecdotal/self-aggrandazing set stories ("So Marty [Scorsese] and I were talking one day on set...") as well as the easily found conveyance of the technical. McDonough is a thinking...
Published on December 13, 2005 by Brian M. Plow
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Only a mild diversion
McDonough's book is a bunch of anecdotes about his life as a not-particularly-accomplished cinemetographer. It's most enlightening aspects about about the nature of the old-boy network in film crafts, particularly how you get in the union. But most of it isn't very interesting, really.
Published on June 23, 2000 by David Brower
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Only a mild diversion,
This review is from: Light Years (Paperback)
McDonough's book is a bunch of anecdotes about his life as a not-particularly-accomplished cinemetographer. It's most enlightening aspects about about the nature of the old-boy network in film crafts, particularly how you get in the union. But most of it isn't very interesting, really.
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Light Years by Tom McDonough,
This review is from: Light Years (Paperback)
This account of filmmaking and the consequences/sacrifices/gratifications of being a filmmaker (yes, there are consequences/sacrifices) is a rare commodity amidst the abundant supply of anecdotal/self-aggrandazing set stories ("So Marty [Scorsese] and I were talking one day on set...") as well as the easily found conveyance of the technical. McDonough is a thinking filmmaker, who laments his profession as much as he loves it. And, in truly attitudinal counterpoint, depricates himself as opposed to the cacophony of self-inflating spin that most filmmakers glaze over their more meaningless work. Tom McDonough's written work gives the cynic hope in the profession, process and culture of filmmaking; and it is my hope that he inspires others to "think" as much as they "do" in the study, practice and profession.
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Light Years by Tom McDonough (Paperback - Jan. 1990)
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