Fare un film

Fellini on filmmaking — not a manual but a collection of essays, interviews and reflections on what it means to make a film.

The book is as stylistically distinctive as his films: digressive, personal, occasionally surreal, always specific.

For product direction the transfer is not literal but practical: filmmaking is one of the very few crafts where a complex, technical, collaborative, expensive, time-bounded project is the norm rather than the exception, and the parallels with shipping software are obvious once you look for them.

Fellini is worth reading alongside Lumet for a complementary voice — the Italian auteur and the American craftsman approaching the same problem from different ends.

A book to read slowly.