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The Directors: Take One

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Today's most acclaimed film directors reveal intimate behind-the-scenes details of their most influential work and their unique approaches to their art.

In the companion to the Silver Plaque-winning Starz/Encore documentary series, this book offers interviews with 13 top filmmakers. Contains each director's filmography, complete listings of major awards, and cast credits for all films discussed.

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For those wishing to follow in the footsteps of film greats likes Ron Howard, James Cameron, Spike Lee, Norman Jewison, John Carpenter, and Sidney Lumet, The Directors: Take One provides ample inspiration. Concise filmographies of 13 renowned directors provide the introduction to an extended firsthand narration of each one's life, performed in deep, resonant tones by voice actor John Bell. Bell easily inhabits the voices of these great men, amusingly narrating Ron Howard's account of being a small child on the set of the Andy Griffiths Show, and James Cameron's iconoclastic tale of quitting his job as a truck driver to go "full guns blazing" into film. Though these interviews were conducted in the '90s, in this contemporary narration, they remain compelling today.
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A fascinating inside Story of how they made the films .Their ups and downs. Their successes and failures. Many of the films they described I was familiar with. I. Have listened to this book twice.

I loved hearing the stories about choosing the book, then the directors and producers and the actors.

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no real spoilers, just some good insights into the mind of a director or 2...

gentle amble thru great Hollywood directors career

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