Customer Reviews

Excellent memoir of guerilla film-making - By: Barton Keyes, 06 Jun 2006
-- or how to make a film legend, over eight years & without any money.

I consumed this bookin the space of one long train journey. By the time I had finished it

1) I really wanted to meet Kevin Brownlow because of the stories he probably missed out of HIHH
2) I knew vastly more about film-making than I did before I started the book.
Kevin Brownlow comes across as one of Nature's gentlemen: the story he tells is principled; unassuming; generousin its praise for those who helped him & remarkably restrainedin its condemnation of those who hindered.
It's a very funny book tooin its own way & certainly one of the best film memoirs I have ever read.
By the end of the book my admiration for Brownlow & his co-director Andrew Mollo was very deep.
The only irritating thing about the story is that their marathon dedication certainly left me unsettlingly aware of my own shortcomingsin terms of perseverance