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Cinema Books
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Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 495 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,498 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,720 ratings — published 1984
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,708 ratings — published 1975
Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,435 ratings — published 1995
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,694 ratings — published 1995
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,631 ratings — published 1979
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,850 ratings — published 1997
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,222 ratings — published 2022
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,570 ratings — published 1987
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,665 ratings — published 1998
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,910 ratings — published 1967
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,917 ratings — published 1982
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,339 ratings — published 1983
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 754 ratings — published 1958
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,659 ratings — published 1981
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,535 ratings — published 1997
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,941 ratings — published 1979
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,227 ratings — published 1994
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,146 ratings — published 1972
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,174 ratings — published 1949
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,088 ratings — published 2004
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,461 ratings — published 2005
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,332 ratings — published 1985
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.78 — 21,313 ratings — published 2006
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 703 ratings — published 1985
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,104 ratings — published 1959
Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,566 ratings — published 2003
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,266 ratings — published 1977
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,102 ratings — published 1991
The Films in My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 740 ratings — published 1975
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,534 ratings — published 2018
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,482 ratings — published 1992
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,339 ratings — published 2003
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.92 — 912 ratings — published 1947
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by (shelved 82 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,992 ratings — published 1991
This Is Orson Welles (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,159 ratings — published 1992
Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,198 ratings — published 2002
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,634 ratings — published 1995
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,923 ratings — published 2008
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.30 — 713 ratings — published 1974
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,680 ratings — published 2002
What is Cinema?: Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 565 ratings — published 1971
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,365 ratings — published 2007
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,230 ratings — published 2004
Images: My Life in Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 869 ratings — published 1990
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,575 ratings — published 1983
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,409 ratings — published 1964
Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 892 ratings — published 1993
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,647 ratings — published 2004
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,724 ratings — published 2002
“Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.”
― The Films in My Life
― The Films in My Life
“Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.”
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