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MY FIRST MOVIE:
Twenty Celebrated Directors Talk About Their First Film
Edited by Stephen Lowenstein
Pantheon, 458 pages, $27.50
A”neat” idea is what Steven Spielberg called this anthology, and he was right. Stephen Lowenstein has assembled a collection of interviews with great contemporary directors–including Ang Lee, Neil Jordan and Gary Oldman–who looked in the rearview mirrors at their debut films and recalled the anxiety, passions, cruelty and plain dumb luck in making movies.
