Directors in Action: Selections from Action,: The Official Magazine of the Directors Guild of America,

Directors, would-be directors and film afficionados of all kinds will find this book fascinating and a joy, as well as educational. What would you expect from a book compiled from the best feature articles from one of the best movie-making magazines? With an introduction by Frank Capra? This is great stuff. Having been published in the early 1970s, it naturally focuses mostly on the great directors and their work in the 1960s and early 70s. So that means you have articles and interviews with Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Roger Corman, Don Siegal, Robert Altman, Richard Lester, Gordon Parks, Mel Brooks, John Frankenheimer, so much more. There's a large section detailing John Ford and his masterpiece Stagecoach. There's a section on notable first films that serves as a great reminder of some overlooked gems of film making that you will want to track down. I can't imagine anyone who's serious about film making who would not enjoy this book. It's like a great issue of a great magazine--you can open it up at nearly any page and start reading and start enjoying and start learning and appreciating, and wanting to go watch some geat movies that you may have overlooked or not fully absorbed. It's fun.