Getting Away With It (Paperback, Main)

Getting Away with It is a funny and insightful conversation between two visionary directors, Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester, about the manifold joys and hardships of being a filmmaker.

Though a generation apart, they share the infectious passion of cinephilia, and each has directed movies that have influenced the entire international film community. Soderbergh's freshman effort as a writer-director, sex, lies, and videotape, inaugurated a movement in low-budget, independent American film that remains a vital part of contemporary cinema today. Lester's freewheeling films of the Sixties and Seventies (including the Beatles' movies Help! and A Hard Day's Night; The Knack; How I Won the War; and Petulia) helped to create a "new wave" of British filmmaking. Together they discuss their respective adventures in motion pictures in a free-ranging, sardonically educational dialogue.

Interwoven within this conversation is a similarly witty and insightful journal by Soderbergh, recounting the extraordinary year during which he rejected the Hollywood system to try "guerilla filmmaking" with the offbeat projects Schizopolis and Gray's Anatomy before returning to the movie-making mainstream with his acclaimed adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Out of Sight (starring George Clooney).

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1999
First published:	November 2000
Authors:	Steven Soderbergh
Dimensions:	217 x 136 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-19025-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Individual film directors, film-makers
LSN:	0-571-19025-1
Barcode:	9780571190256

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