| 1 |
|
The Men Who Made the Movies
by
4.37 avg rating — 35 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 2 |
|
Hitchcock/Truffaut
by
4.48 avg rating — 9,301 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 3 |
|
Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel
by
3.94 avg rating — 103 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 4 |
|
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
by
4.19 avg rating — 1,646 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 5 |
|
My Life and My Films
by
4.17 avg rating — 195 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 6 |
|
Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics
by
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 7 |
|
Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director
by
3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 8 |
|
Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game – The Controversial Oscar-Winning Director's Intimate Memoir
by
4.10 avg rating — 2,089 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 9 |
|
The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love
by
3.56 avg rating — 139 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 10 |
|
Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition
by
3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 11 |
|
Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director – A Biography of Struggles, Triumphs, and Classic Cinema
by
3.87 avg rating — 95 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 12 |
|
On Directing Film
by
3.81 avg rating — 4,032 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 13 |
|
The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968
by
4.03 avg rating — 551 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 14 |
|
Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors
by
4.34 avg rating — 520 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 15 |
|
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors
by
3.48 avg rating — 185 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 16 |
|
Gilliam on Gilliam
by
4.07 avg rating — 315 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 17 |
|
Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film
by
3.99 avg rating — 364 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 18 |
|
Nora Ephron: A Biography
by
3.70 avg rating — 564 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 19 |
|
Truffaut: A Biography
by
4.21 avg rating — 261 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 20 |
|
Seesaw, a Dual Biography of Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks
by
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 21 |
|
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
by
3.66 avg rating — 363 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 22 |
|
Clint Eastwood: A Biography
by
3.79 avg rating — 294 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 23 |
|
Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
by
4.23 avg rating — 395 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 24 |
|
Something Like an Autobiography
by
4.13 avg rating — 4,549 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 25 |
|
Woody Allen: A Biography
by
3.75 avg rating — 732 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 26 |
|
All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business
by
4.24 avg rating — 15,447 ratings
Brent
rated it 4 stars
See Review
|
|
| 27 |
|
Mike Nichols: A Life
by
4.48 avg rating — 3,452 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 28 |
|
John Hughes: A Life in Film: The Genius Behind Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, and more
by
3.63 avg rating — 246 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 29 |
|
The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
by
4.11 avg rating — 150 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 30 |
|
Ghostbuster's Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis
by
3.99 avg rating — 765 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 31 |
|
If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah
by
4.35 avg rating — 313 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 32 |
|
On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
by
4.17 avg rating — 169 ratings
Brent
rated it 4 stars
See Review
|
|
| 33 |
|
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
by
3.97 avg rating — 295 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 34 |
|
Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films
by
3.30 avg rating — 314 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 35 |
|
D.W. Griffith: An American Life
by
3.99 avg rating — 71 ratings
Brent
rated it 4 stars
See Review
|
|
| 36 |
|
Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life
by
3.64 avg rating — 833 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 37 |
|
The Life and Films of Jacki Chan
by
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 38 |
|
It's Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks
by
3.73 avg rating — 236 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 39 |
|
Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder
by
3.91 avg rating — 81 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 40 |
|
The Films in My Life
by
4.09 avg rating — 726 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 41 |
|
Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett
by
3.79 avg rating — 96 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 42 |
|
Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin
by
3.53 avg rating — 197 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 43 |
|
Winsor McKay: His Life and Art
by
4.37 avg rating — 105 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 44 |
|
The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
by
3.87 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
Brent
rated it 4 stars
See Review
|
|
| 45 |
|
My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir
by
3.99 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 46 |
|
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
by
4.11 avg rating — 10,156 ratings
Brent
rated it 5 stars
See Review
|
|
| 47 |
|
Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense
by
3.61 avg rating — 89 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 48 |
|
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
by
3.89 avg rating — 947 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 49 |
|
Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life
by
3.62 avg rating — 988 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 50 |
|
Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero
by
3.86 avg rating — 179 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 51 |
|
John Ford: Poet In the Desert
by
4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 52 |
|
Live Cinema and Its Techniques
by
3.39 avg rating — 181 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 53 |
|
Ethnographic Film
by
3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
Brent
rated it 4 stars
See Review
|
|
| 54 |
|
Making Movies
by
4.29 avg rating — 9,993 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 55 |
|
The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit
by
4.23 avg rating — 1,870 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 56 |
|
The Nashville Chronicles: The Making of Robert Altman's Masterpiece
by
4.13 avg rating — 135 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 57 |
|
Notes: On the Making of "Apocalypse Now"
by
4.05 avg rating — 407 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 58 |
|
Green Shadows, White Whale
by
3.79 avg rating — 1,426 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 59 |
|
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
by
4.40 avg rating — 2,088 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 60 |
|
The Coen Brothers: The Iconic Filmmakers and Their Work
by
3.78 avg rating — 93 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 61 |
|
Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film
by
4.36 avg rating — 213 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 62 |
|
Young Frankenstein: The Story of the Making of the Film
by
4.24 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 63 |
|
A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking (Applause Books)
by
4.43 avg rating — 319 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 64 |
|
The Making of Kubrick's 2001
by
4.15 avg rating — 239 ratings
Brent
rated it 4 stars
See Review
|
|
| 65 |
|
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
by
4.04 avg rating — 3,157 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 66 |
|
The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
by
3.95 avg rating — 2,498 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 67 |
|
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
by
4.19 avg rating — 5,497 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 68 |
|
Tex Avery: The Mgm Years, 1942-1955
by
4.23 avg rating — 60 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 69 |
|
Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema (Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center)
by
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 70 |
|
Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
by
3.95 avg rating — 388 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 71 |
|
Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan
by
4.16 avg rating — 192 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 72 |
|
John Sayles: Interviews
by
4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 73 |
|
Sayles on Sayles
by
4.04 avg rating — 56 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 74 |
|
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles
by
3.61 avg rating — 351 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 75 |
|
Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu (Orson Welles, #1)
by
4.15 avg rating — 651 ratings
Brent
rated it 5 stars
See Review
|
|
| 76 |
|
This Is Orson Welles
by
4.26 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 77 |
|
Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans (Orson Welles, #2)
by
4.25 avg rating — 303 ratings
Brent
added it to currently-reading
See Review
|
|
| 78 |
|
Hal Ashby: Interviews
by
3.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 79 |
|
John Huston: Interviews
by
3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 80 |
|
Buster Keaton: Interviews
by
4.16 avg rating — 70 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 81 |
|
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews
by
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 82 |
|
Terry Gilliam: Interviews
by
3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 83 |
|
Dark Knights and Holy Fools: The Art and Films of Terry Gilliam: From Before Python to Beyond Fear and Loathing
by
3.98 avg rating — 128 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 84 |
|
Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir
by
3.95 avg rating — 849 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 85 |
|
Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception
by
4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 86 |
|
Melinda Camber Porter In Conversation With Wim Wenders: On the Film Set of Paris Texas 1983, Vol 1, No 3 (Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative Works) (V1)
by
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 87 |
|
The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
by
4.27 avg rating — 26,433 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 88 |
|
Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton
by
4.61 avg rating — 89 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 89 |
|
Tex Avery: Hollywood's Master of Screwball Cartoons
by
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 90 |
|
How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood
by
4.05 avg rating — 726 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 91 |
|
Clockwork Orange
by
4.24 avg rating — 14,176 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 92 |
|
Buster Keaton Remembered
by
4.47 avg rating — 261 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 93 |
|
David Lean: A Biography
by
4.42 avg rating — 152 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 94 |
|
The Films of Akira Kurosawa
by
4.31 avg rating — 553 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 95 |
|
My Last Sigh
by
4.31 avg rating — 3,841 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 96 |
|
John Huston: Courage and Art
by
3.56 avg rating — 55 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 97 |
|
An Open Book
by
4.10 avg rating — 290 ratings
Brent
rated it 4 stars
See Review
|
|
| 98 |
|
Chuck Jones: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists Series)
by
4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 99 |
|
Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings (Portraits of American Genius #3)
by
3.57 avg rating — 44 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|
| 100 |
|
Nanook of the North
by
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
Brent
added it to to-read
See Review
|
|