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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by Peter Biskind (shelved 32 times as film)
avg rating 4.01 — 885 ratings — published 1998
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Hitchcock / Truffaut (Revised Edition)
by Alfred Hitchcock (shelved 30 times as film)
avg rating 4.52 — 456 ratings — published 1967
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Lynch on Lynch: Revised Edition (Paperback)
by David Lynch (shelved 25 times as film)
avg rating 4.23 — 372 ratings — published 1997
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Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by Werner Herzog (shelved 21 times as film)
avg rating 4.61 — 413 ratings — published 2003
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Making Movies (Paperback)
by Sidney Lumet (shelved 20 times as film)
avg rating 4.00 — 345 ratings — published 1995
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Film Art: An Introduction (Seventh Edition)
by David Bordwell (shelved 19 times as film)
avg rating 3.94 — 149 ratings — published 1979
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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 4.16 — 679 ratings — published 2008
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Hollywood Babylon (Hardcover)
by Kenneth Anger (shelved 19 times as film)
avg rating 3.93 — 605 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 18 times as film)
avg rating 4.06 — 476 ratings — published 1995
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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by David Lynch (shelved 18 times as film)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,007 ratings — published 2006
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Adventures in the Screen Trade (Paperback)
by William Goldman (shelved 18 times as film)
avg rating 4.06 — 526 ratings — published 1983
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In the Blink of an Eye Revised 2nd Edition (Paperback)
by Walter Murch (shelved 18 times as film)
avg rating 4.28 — 393 ratings — published 2001
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The Great Movies (Paperback)
by Roger Ebert (shelved 17 times as film)
avg rating 4.28 — 194 ratings — published 2002
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Film Form: Essays in Film Theory (Paperback)
by Sergei Eisenstein (shelved 17 times as film)
avg rating 4.11 — 153 ratings — published 1969
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by Robert McKee (shelved 17 times as film)
avg rating 4.12 — 905 ratings — published 1997
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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 4.53 — 273 ratings — published 1984
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What Is Cinema? Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by André Bazin (shelved 16 times as film)
avg rating 4.16 — 185 ratings — published 1967
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My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by Luis Buñuel (shelved 16 times as film)
avg rating 4.40 — 226 ratings — published 1982
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Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by Peter Biskind (shelved 16 times as film)
avg rating 3.63 — 415 ratings — published 2004
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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 — 2,018 ratings — published 2002
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Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Paperback)
by Syd Field (shelved 15 times as film)
avg rating 3.61 — 340 ratings — published 1979
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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 — 114 ratings — published 1974
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Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (Hardcover)
by Richard Brody (shelved 13 times as film)
avg rating 3.92 — 161 ratings — published 2007
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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 4.25 — 105 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 — 395 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 — 195 ratings — published 1987
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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 4.35 — 166 ratings — published 1993
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On Directing Film (Paperback)
by David Mamet (shelved 11 times as film)
avg rating 3.77 — 296 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 — 60 ratings — published 2004
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Woody Allen on Woody Allen (Paperback)
by Woody Allen (shelved 10 times as film)
avg rating 3.98 — 300 ratings — published 2005
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Cassavetes on Cassavetes (Directors on Directors)
by John Cassavetes (shelved 10 times as film)
avg rating 4.39 — 128 ratings — published 2001
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Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by Steven D Katz (shelved 10 times as film)
avg rating 3.87 — 157 ratings — published 1991
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Images: My Life In Film (Paperback)
by Ingmar Bergman (shelved 10 times as film)
avg rating 4.00 — 74 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 — 150 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 4.07 — 229 ratings — published 1992
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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 — 153 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 4.04 — 178 ratings — published 1983
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Film Noir Reader (Paperback)
by Alain Silver (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 3.79 — 74 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 — 198 ratings — published 1981
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Pulp Fiction (Paperback)
by Quentin Tarantino (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 4.17 — 289 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 — 48 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 — 50 ratings — published 1983
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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 — 151 ratings — published 1996
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Which Lie Did I Tell? (Paperback)
by William Goldman (shelved 9 times as film)
avg rating 3.85 — 348 ratings — published 2000
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Conquest of the Useless (Hardcover)
by Werner Herzog (shelved 8 times as film)
avg rating 4.21 — 248 ratings — published 2009
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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 4.28 — 199 ratings — published 1978
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The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (Directors' Cuts)
by Brad Prager (shelved 8 times as film)
avg rating 4.27 — 30 ratings — published 2007
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Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies, 1956-1984 (Paperback)
by Cathal Tohill (shelved 8 times as film)
avg rating 4.41 — 37 ratings — published 1995
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"After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal."
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HURRICANE: the life of an independent filmmaker
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