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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by Peter Biskind (shelved 34 times as film)
avg rating 4.02 — 895 ratings — published 1998
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Hitchcock / Truffaut (Revised Edition)
by Alfred Hitchcock (shelved 30 times as film)
avg rating 4.51 — 463 ratings — published 1967
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Lynch on Lynch: Revised Edition (Paperback)
by David Lynch (shelved 26 times as film)
avg rating 4.23 — 377 ratings — published 1997
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Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by Werner Herzog (shelved 21 times as film)
avg rating 4.61 — 423 ratings — published 2003
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Making Movies (Paperback)
by Sidney Lumet (shelved 21 times as film)
avg rating 4.01 — 347 ratings — published 1995
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Film Art: An Introduction (Seventh Edition)
by David Bordwell (shelved 20 times as film)
avg rating 3.94 — 155 ratings — published 1979
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In the Blink of an Eye (Paperback)
by Walter Murch (shelved 20 times as film)
avg rating 4.28 — 402 ratings — published 2001
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Hollywood Babylon (Hardcover)
by Kenneth Anger (shelved 20 times as film)
avg rating 3.93 — 610 ratings — published 1959
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Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Paperback)
by Robert Rodriguez (shelved 19 times as film)
avg rating 4.05 — 474 ratings — published 1995
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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by David Lynch (shelved 19 times as film)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,020 ratings — published 2006
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Adventures in the Screen Trade (Paperback)
by William Goldman (shelved 19 times as film)
avg rating 4.06 — 534 ratings — published 1983
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by Mark Harris (Goodreads author) (shelved 19 times as film)
avg rating 4.17 — 710 ratings — published 2008
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by Robert McKee (shelved 18 times as film)
avg rating 4.12 — 925 ratings — published 1997
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The Great Movies (Paperback)
by Roger Ebert (shelved 17 times as film)
avg rating 4.28 — 195 ratings — published 2002
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Film Form: Essays in Film Theory (Paperback)
by Sergei Eisenstein (shelved 17 times as film)
avg rating 4.12 — 156 ratings — published 1969
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Sculpting in Time: Tarkovsky The Great Russian Filmaker Discusses His Art (Paperback)
by Andrei Tarkovsky (shelved 17 times as film)
avg rating 4.54 — 276 ratings — published 1984
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Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by Peter Biskind (shelved 17 times as film)
avg rating 3.64 — 419 ratings — published 2004
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What Is Cinema? Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by André Bazin (shelved 16 times as film)
avg rating 4.16 — 188 ratings — published 1967
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My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by Luis Buñuel (shelved 16 times as film)
avg rating 4.40 — 228 ratings — published 1982
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If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor (Paperback)
by Bruce Campbell (shelved 15 times as film)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,054 ratings — published 2002
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Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Paperback)
by Syd Field (shelved 15 times as film)
avg rating 3.60 — 354 ratings — published 1979
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Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (Hardcover)
by Richard Brody (shelved 14 times as film)
avg rating 3.91 — 169 ratings — published 2007
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Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition)
by Alain Silver (shelved 14 times as film)
avg rating 4.41 — 57 ratings — published 1979
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Film As a Subversive Art (Paperback originally Hardcover)
by Amos Vogel (shelved 13 times as film)
avg rating 4.64 — 116 ratings — published 1974
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Something Like An Autobiography (Paperback)
by Akira Kurosawa (shelved 13 times as film)
avg rating 4.23 — 235 ratings — published 1982
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Cronenberg on Cronenberg (Directors on Directors)
by David Cronenberg (shelved 12 times as film)
avg rating 4.27 — 107 ratings — published 1992
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Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (Paperback)
by John Waters (shelved 12 times as film)
avg rating 4.46 — 397 ratings — published 1981
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The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by Ingmar Bergman (shelved 11 times as film)
avg rating 3.97 — 196 ratings — published 1987
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Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by Steven D Katz (shelved 11 times as film)
avg rating 3.86 — 163 ratings — published 1991
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror; Revised Edition with a New Afterword (Paperback)
by David J. Skal (shelved 11 times as film)
avg rating 4.36 — 169 ratings — published 1993
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On Directing Film (Paperback)
by David Mamet (shelved 11 times as film)
avg rating 3.76 — 298 ratings — published 1991
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What Is Cinema? Vol. 2 (Paperback)
by André Bazin (shelved 10 times as film)
avg rating 4.34 — 62 ratings — published 1971
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Woody Allen on Woody Allen (Paperback)
by Woody Allen (shelved 10 times as film)
avg rating 3.97 — 303 ratings — published 1994
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Cassavetes on Cassavetes (Directors on Directors)
by John Cassavetes (shelved 10 times as film)
avg rating 4.39 — 127 ratings — published 2001
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Images: My Life In Film (Paperback)
by Ingmar Bergman (shelved 10 times as film)
avg rating 4.00 — 75 ratings — published 1987
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Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films (Re-Search # 10)
by V. Vale (shelved 10 times as film)
avg rating 4.17 — 154 ratings — published 1986
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by Carol J. Clover (shelved 10 times as film)
avg rating 4.06 — 235 ratings — published 1992
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Which Lie Did I Tell? (Paperback)
by William Goldman (shelved 10 times as film)
avg rating 3.87 — 356 ratings — published 2000
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Conquest of the Useless (Hardcover)
by Werner Herzog (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 4.25 — 263 ratings — published 2009
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Godard on Godard: Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard (Da Capo Paperback)
by Jean-Luc Godard (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 4.07 — 154 ratings — published 1986
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The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (Paperback)
by Donald Spoto (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 4.02 — 182 ratings — published 1983
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Film Noir Reader (Paperback)
by Alain Silver (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 3.79 — 76 ratings — published 1996
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies (Paperback)
by Vito Russo (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 4.06 — 204 ratings — published 1981
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Pulp Fiction (Paperback)
by Quentin Tarantino (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 4.17 — 291 ratings — published 1994
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VideoHound's Cult Flicks & Trash Pics (Paperback)
by Carol A. Schwartz (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 4.16 — 49 ratings — published 1995
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of the Screen (Paperback)
by Foster Hirsch (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 3.94 — 49 ratings — published 1983
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Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by Blake Snyder (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 4.06 — 300 ratings — published 2005
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Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema (Paperback)
by John Pierson (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 3.67 — 153 ratings — published 1996
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Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice: Munich - Paris 23 November - 14 Decenber 1974 (Paperback)
by Werner Herzog (shelved 8 times as film)
avg rating 4.25 — 203 ratings — published 1978
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The Kid Stays in the Picture (Paperback)
by Robert Evans (shelved 8 times as film)
avg rating 3.93 — 236 ratings — published 1994
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"The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."
— Chuck Palahniuk
— Chuck Palahniuk
"If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about."
— Harmony Korine
— Harmony Korine
