Making Movies [Hardcover]

John A. Russo (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Delacorte Press (March 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 044050113X
• ISBN-13: 978-0440501138
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,677,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Okay, October 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Making Movies: The Inside Guide to Independent Movie Production (Paperback)

This is not a fun book to read. It's like an old textbook in a community college. It's okay, and it's worth reading, but it's not worth the money. You won't gain 15 bucks of information in this book. If you want to know about independent filmmaking buy Rick Schmidt's Feautre Filmmaking at Used-car prices. This is well worth the read and the money.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellant, October 25, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Making Movies: The Inside Guide to Independent Movie Production (Paperback)

A general overview of the low budget filmmaking process loaded with pertinent information and technical advice. Areas of interest: starting your own production company and an appendix containing several sample contracts. Includes interviews with the likes of George A. Romero, Tobe Hooper, Sam Raimi, Lizzie Borden, Tom Savini and Oliver Stone. It cries out for an update(its eight years old)but its an excellant exploration into the world of filmmaking nonetheless. Worth the dough.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Practical advice from people who actually do it, May 11, 2000

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making Movies: The Inside Guide to Independent Movie Production (Paperback)

Think this book is boring, cry me a freaking river losers. Making movies is not exciting, it's long hours and too soon deadlines and ego, ego, ego. This is how you do it. This is how The Blair Witch Project and dozens of other low/no budget videos are able to be made. I found the book to be priceless.