Spike Lee's Gotta Have it: Inside Guerrilla FilmmakingSpike Lee wrote, directed and starred in She's Gotta Have It, the independent-film success story of 1986. Shot on a shoe-string budget of $175,000 in black-and-white 16mm, the film was made with Spike Lee's persistence and talent plus the help of family and friends. It grossed $8 million at the box office and proved to be a major hit with both critics and audiences. Now Spike Lee reveals how he did it, mapping out the entire creative and production processes-from early notebook jottings to film festival awards. Spike Lee's Gotta Have It is a unique document in film literature - it's funny, absorbing, and fresh as the hit film itself. |
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... filmmaker . If you get two or three filmmakers out of forty a year I think that's a good rate . I think , me , Ernest , Jim Jarmusch and Sara Driver are the ones when I went to NYU . I never went to NYU expecting teachers to teach me ...
... filmmaker . If you get two or three filmmakers out of forty a year I think that's a good rate . I think , me , Ernest , Jim Jarmusch and Sara Driver are the ones when I went to NYU . I never went to NYU expecting teachers to teach me ...
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Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking Spike Lee. L 7 MARS ( TO CAMERA ) Is this color or black and white ? Black and white ... filmmaker . It was His will . I just don't want to be one hundred years old . I truly believe if I can get this film ...
Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking Spike Lee. L 7 MARS ( TO CAMERA ) Is this color or black and white ? Black and white ... filmmaker . It was His will . I just don't want to be one hundred years old . I truly believe if I can get this film ...
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... filmmaker's . I do have hope but right now I'm in financial dire straits . My rent was due October 1. My $ 500 reimbursement check to the Black Filmmaker Foundation bounced . I got a Con Ed billl of $ 60 . But I do have some other money ...
... filmmaker's . I do have hope but right now I'm in financial dire straits . My rent was due October 1. My $ 500 reimbursement check to the Black Filmmaker Foundation bounced . I got a Con Ed billl of $ 60 . But I do have some other money ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 11 |
THE INTRODUCTION BY SPIKE LEE | 17 |
THE JOURNAL OCTOBER 1984APRIL 1986 | 65 |
Copyright | |
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