A Primer for Film Making: A Complete Guide to 16 Mm and 35 Mm Film Production

by Kenneth H. Roberts

Examines the aesthetic principles and practical techniques which govern the production of films

560 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1971

Reviews

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've found some of the very best films lists in

Roberts and Sharples [up to 1970]
Ellis and Wexman [up to 2001]

As in they were some of the best lists of French and Italian 50s and 60s films i came across...

With Ellis, i got to get close to the definitive list of 1970 to 2000 for French and Italian film...

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sampler

Italy
1951 Miracle in Milan
1952 The Golden Couch
1952 Umberto D
1952 The White Sheik
1952 La Signora Senza Camelie
1953 I Vitelloni
1954 Senso
1954 La Strada
1955 Il Bidone
1955 Le Amiche

Italy

1956 Nights of Cabiria
1957 Il Grido
1959 L'Avventura
1959 La Dolce Vita
1960 General Della Rovere
1960 La Notte
1960 Rocco and His Brothers

Italy
1961 Accatone
1961 Divorce Italian Style
1961 Eclipse
1961 The Sound of Trumpets
1961 Two Women
1962 Mondo Cane
1962 8 1/2
1963 The Fiances
1964 Red Desert
1965 Juliet of the Spirits

Italy

1966 The Battle of Algiers
1966 A Fistful of Dollars
1967 For a Few Dollars More
1967 The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
1969 The Damned
1969 Teorema
1970 Fellini Satyricon

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others?

Japan
1961 The Island
1961 Yojimbo
1962 Sanjuro
1964 Tokyo Olympiad
1964 Woman in the Dunes
1965 Kwaidan
1965 Red Beard
1969 Boy

Yugoslavia
1961 Ersatz
1964 A Visit From Space
1965 The Wall
1965 Elegy
1967 I Even Met Happy Gypsies
1967 Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
1968 Early Works
1968 Kaya, I'll Kill You
1968 Playing At Soldiers
1969 Horoscope

France
1966 Au Hazard Balthazar
1966 La Guerre est Finie
1966 Masculine-Feminie
1966 Mouchette
1966 Two or Three Things I Know About Her
1967 The Anderson Platoon
1967 Belle de Jour
1967 Le Chinoise
1967 Weekend
1968 A Movie Like the Others
1968 Les Biches
1968 One Plus One [aka Sympathy for the Devil]
1969 Destroy, She Said
1969 La Femme Infidele
1969 The Man Who Lies
1969 See You At Mao
1969 Stolen Kisses
1969 The Wanderer
1969 The Wind From the East
1969 Z
1970 Le Boucher
1970 The Confession
1970 L'Enfant Sauvage
1970 Mississippi Mermaid
1970 Pravda

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United States

1966 Alfie
1966 Castro Street
1966 Chafed Elbows
1966 The Chelsea Girls
1966 The Endless Summer
1966 Flight of the Phoenix
1966 Mirage
1966 Modesty Blaise
1966 Seven Women
1966 A Stravinsky Portrait
1966 TIme of the Locust
1966 Torn Curtain
1966 The Wild Angels
1966 You're A Big Boy Now

1967 Bonnie and Clyde
1967 David Holzman's Diary
1967 Don't Look Back
1967 El Dorado
1967 The Graduate
1967 In Cold Blood
1967 The Nude Restaurant
1967 Point Blank
1967 Skaterdater
1967 The Titicut Follies
1967 Ulysses
1967 Urbanissimo
1967 You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You

1968 The Boston Strangler
1968 Bullitt
1968 Candy
1968 Chiefs
1968 Coogan's Bluff
1968 Faces
1968 Greetings
1968 The Killing of Sister George
1968 Madigan
1968 Petulia
1968 Pretty Poison
1968 Romeo and Juliet
1968 Rosemary's Baby
1968 Targets
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 The Yellow Submarine

1969 Agnes Varda's Black Panthers: A Report
1969 Alice's Restaurant
1969 Butch Cassiday and The Sundance Kid
1969 Downhill Racer
1969 Easy Rider
1969 In the Year of the PIg
1969 Medium Cool
1969 Midnight Cowboy
1969 Monterey Pop
1969 Putney Swope
1969 Salesman
1969 Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
1969 The Wild Bunch

1970 Catch-22
1970 M*A*S*H*
1970 Woodstock
1970 Zabriskie Point

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Some of the most masterful selections of 50s and 60s films i've ever seen in the back of this book