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Cinema Books
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Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 502 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,554 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 378 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,775 ratings — published 1984
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,752 ratings — published 1975
Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,559 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 — 8,762 ratings — published 1995
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,642 ratings — published 1979
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,927 ratings — published 1997
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,376 ratings — published 2022
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,591 ratings — published 1987
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,740 ratings — published 1998
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,919 ratings — published 1967
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,349 ratings — published 1983
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,947 ratings — published 1982
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 760 ratings — published 1958
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,686 ratings — published 1981
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,986 ratings — published 1979
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,563 ratings — published 1997
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,235 ratings — published 1994
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,164 ratings — published 1972
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,183 ratings — published 1949
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,096 ratings — published 2004
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,335 ratings — published 1985
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,630 ratings — published 2005
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.78 — 21,639 ratings — published 2006
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,271 ratings — published 1977
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 712 ratings — published 1985
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,172 ratings — published 1959
Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,571 ratings — published 2003
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,124 ratings — published 1991
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,696 ratings — published 2018
The Films in My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 740 ratings — published 1975
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,517 ratings — published 1992
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,350 ratings — published 2003
This Is Orson Welles (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,164 ratings — published 1992
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.92 — 913 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 — 1,998 ratings — published 1991
Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,207 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 — 5,666 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 — 4,945 ratings — published 2008
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,688 ratings — published 2002
What is Cinema?: Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 568 ratings — published 1971
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.30 — 713 ratings — published 1974
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,414 ratings — published 2007
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,257 ratings — published 2004
Images: My Life in Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 871 ratings — published 1990
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,630 ratings — published 1983
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,444 ratings — published 1964
Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 896 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 — 3,659 ratings — published 2004
The Major Film Theories: An Introduction (Galaxy Books)
by (shelved 66 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.78 — 346 ratings — published 1975
“I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.)”
― Experience
― Experience
“That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."
Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."
But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."
I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"
Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.”
― The Eternity Code
Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."
But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."
I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"
Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.”
― The Eternity Code
