Tuesday, September 28, 2010

I've been dipping into Saul Austerlitz's new book ANOTHER FINE MESS: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN FILM COMEDY. It isn't really a history in the sense of illuminating the underlying trends of film comedy. It's more a chronological appreciation of the great comedy filmmakers, from Buster Keaton to Judd Apatow. I'm enjoying it because I haven't seen all the comedies of Buster Keaton, and the book goes a long way to filling in the blanks. Austerlitz certainly has seen a lot of movies, and he gives you a good sense of them. Worth the visit, if not the detour.

Labels: books, reading

12:04 PM

4 Comments:

Hi. I have a cooking show idea and am suppose to call a producer tomorrow. However an aquantaince of mine is a producer [nothing big, trying to get started] am I suppose to pay him or he pay me? How does this work. I don't want to 'waste' my money.

Ideas?
Thanks
Dez

By  Dezi Adler, at 12:38 AM  

Producers pay you.

By  Alex Epstein, at 8:21 AM  

Have you read 'What Happens Next?' by Marc Norman

http://www.amazon.com/What-Happens-Next-American-Screenwriting/dp/0307383393

Found it a great flyover and especially amusing the seemingly constant struggle of writers who want to be directors, directors who want to be writer/directors...

By  Hepworks, at 12:12 PM  

Yep, I liked it:

http://complicationsensue.blogspot.com/2009/01/reading-material.html

By  Alex Epstein, at 12:15 PM  

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