The Film Director's Intuition
Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques
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This book is an invaluable and inspirational material for the film, television and theater professional. It helps directors, actors, writers, designers, producers and executives tap into their imagination and instincts, in turn helping them create the films they’ve always dreamed of creating.
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After a betrayal at work costs Song Kuan her job, she retreats to her friend Lucy’s idyllic family cabin on a lake in Minnesota to lick her wounds. She devotes herself to recording Ice Cold Cases, a true-crime podcast that she and Lucy cohost with the gleeful energy of obsessed fans—until an anonymous tip about a missing-person case disrupts their equilibrium. Then Lucy disappears, leaving Song alone in an unfriendly and unfamiliar town where locals don’t take kindly to strangers asking questions.
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Asians in MN! I loved it. The vivid sounds of Northern Minnesota totally took me there, and I was hooked into the mystery.
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Didn't like the Two Coreys, but liked this.
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No one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend, could author a book about Tom Petty that is as honest and evocative of Petty's music and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. Born in Gainesville, Florida, with more than a little hillbilly in his blood, Tom Petty was a Southern shit kicker, a kid without a whole lot of promise. Rock and roll made it otherwise.
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Incredibly sad....
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- Bunbury
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Essential Book for Working or Aspiring Directors
The Film Director's Intuition accomplishes a rare feat in laying out a systematic approach to letting inspiration strike. With a mix of concrete examples, and strong, useful metaphors, the author lays out methods of structuring your process to allow the freedom and play that can produce emotional through lines to drive your performances. This book is about learning to trust your gut, and to enable your actors to trust theirs. It's an absolute must-read for directors, along with the author's companion book, Directing Actors. They are particularly compelling for being read by the author.
I'd also strongly recommend it to actors to aid their process.
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- Michael
- 05-04-24
Judith’s wisdom and candor is refreshing
A privilege to have access to this much knowledge. Thank you Judith for making this available.
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- Leo McKenzie
- 11-11-24
Good Enough
It's a solid book that rehashes some of the points made in Directing Actors and adds a level of depth to the discussion, but it doesn't feel quite as revolutionarily necessary as the former title. Still worth reading for the curious, nonetheless.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-03-24
Wonderful Expository Learning!
It’s so wonderful to learn the rudiments of directing actors as a craft and an art form that invites novitiates to try it an demystify the acting process. The teachings were practical, humane and positively encouraging to those who are beginners of the trade. What a great influencer of the common good, both for directors and actors!
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