Shooting the Actor

When Simon Callow met the Yugoslav film director Dusan Makavejev to discuss his new film Manifesto , they both greatly looked forward to working together. Only months later the two were barely speaking. A companion volume to Being An Actor, Shooting the Actor is a funny and disastrous account of a film made in the former Yugoslavia, together with new essays on film and film acting including Callow's work in Amadeus and Four Weddings and a Funeral . Shooting the Actor reveals more about the proce