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| All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lloyd Kaufman, James Gunn, Roger Corman
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
Buy New: $18.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (188 reviews)
Sales Rank: 486927
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 0425163571
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430233092
EAN: 9780425163573
ASIN: 0425163571
Publication Date: August 1, 1998
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Filled with hillarious anecdotes and stories. July 15, 1998
Tired of standing around while all those pretentious Hollywood types grab all the glory? Sick of people not being able to recognizing your brilliant talent for writing/directing or producing films because it's impossible for you to get your foot in the door? Fed up with bullies cutting you in the lunch line in high school, making you lick the floor with your tongue, only to have them lock you in your locker!There are thousands of "how-to" make a film texts by people who have never even made one, now comes a book by a man who has written, directed, produced and distributed hundreds. Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment, Creator of the Toxic Avenger, champion of the good and the righteous everywhere, has written the long awaited book All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger, the most up to date and knowledgeable guide to that sleazy underworld co! ! unterculture, known as the film industry. Read about how Kaufman clawed his way to the top without compromising his principles or stabbing his associates in the back with a dull rusty blade, as you might have read is common practice in other independent filmmaking guides. "I can keep my dignity and still make movies," you say. "No, that's not what I said," I say. "I said you can keep your principles and still make good movies." I'm afraid that your dignity can never be salvaged once you enter the world of filmmaking, but I know you'll get over it. Lloyd Kaufman, a man who has literally worked every position in this freak show known as the movie biz, has written his book as an enjoyable insider's read, with loads of practical knowledge on everything from working on the cheap, on the sub-cheap, and on the welfare-cheap to how to deal with bigoted old film industry types (i.e. MPAA board). With a bathtub full of hilarious anecdotes and ! ! stories, you'll read it, flip it over and read it again. T! hen you'll read it six more times, eat some lunch and change your underwear and do it all over again. Chuck out all those boring old texts on Godard, Felini, Spielberg and all those other freaky foreign art guys and get the authority on independent film, Lloyd Kaufman's All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger.
 original, surprising journey thru independent film making July 14, 1998
lloyd kaufman's memoirs of his life in tromaville are far more entertaining and intelligent than any of his movies. they represent a free associative journey from kaufman's most interior, nearly psychotic, regions to the most minute detail of independent film making. beyond the deliberate attempts to disgust is an abundance of information about how to finance, produce, and distriibute movies without the assistance, and in some instances, in the face of opposition by the establishement, whatever that is. kaufman instrucrts on economies like repetitive uses of car crash scenes, and what to do if you realize only months after filming has been completed that you've neglected to shoot the ending. its swings from informatrive to revolting to contemporary, intimate conversations with kaufman's wife, and pleas with the editor not to kill the book keep the reader wondering what will he talk about next. in the hands of an appropriate director, the book could well become ! ! the basis for a picaresque ramble through the fringes oif the movie making business. defintely an original.
Tromatizing July 11, 1998
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The Troma Team is proud to announce that All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger, published by Boulevard, an imprint of Putnam/Penguin! All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger is the amazing, true story of the birth of Troma Entertainment. Lloyd Kaufman, creator of the Toxic Avenger and president of Troma Entertainment, wrote the book with the assistance of James Gunn, the screenwriter of Tromeo & Juliet. Roger Corman, legendary B-Movie king and producer of the original Little Shop of Horrors, has written the Foreword to the book.
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