![]() ![]() The title of the book is, of course, a brag. The only times I felt the book got bogged down was when he felt the need to go into detail on the financials of distribution - and some people might find that useful or interesting. ![]() He's not a particularly good writer, even with the collaboration of Jim Jerome, but his stories are so darn interesting that it doesn't really matter. Roger Corman sets the record straight by talking about his own independent filmmaking experience in the 1950s and 60s, and by enumerating every famous independent filmmaker he trained (Demme, Coppola, Scorcese, Dante, Bogdonovich.even Cassavettes comes up). In the independent film world there is a myth that independent filmmaking was introduced in the 1970s and that before that there was nothing. I bought this book waaay back when I was actually working in independent film, but only got around to reading it now. ![]()
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