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First Works - A Revealing Look at Today's Greatest Directors |
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It's a mixed bag in the age of illuminating DVD supplements, but First Works effectively demonstrates the early promise of 13 successful filmmakers. Culled from programs originally broadcast on Showtime in 1990, this crude compilation combines student films, early professional work, and interviews with now-famous directors at various stages of commercial and artistic achievement. Martin Scorsese was already an established master, and his comments here--along with his hilarious 1964 student film It's Not Just You, Murray--remain pertinent to aspiring filmmakers everywhere. Aimed at a film-school audience with generic narration and unnecessarily long, poorly integrated film clips, these programs nevertheless provide access to films that are difficult or impossible to see anywhere else, offering embryonic parallels (especially in the cases of Scorsese, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, and Robert Zemeckis) to the careers that followed. Series creator Robert D. Kline provides his own astute perspective in a latter-day bonus interview that's as educationally valid as anything in his earlier programs. --Jeff Shannon
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