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Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 506 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,715 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 393 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,912 ratings — published 1984
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,820 ratings — published 1975
Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,818 ratings — published 1995
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,966 ratings — published 1995
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,662 ratings — published 1979
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,120 ratings — published 1997
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,703 ratings — published 2022
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,644 ratings — published 1987
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,851 ratings — published 1998
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,933 ratings — published 1967
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,373 ratings — published 1983
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,999 ratings — published 1982
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma ? (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 780 ratings — published 1958
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,113 ratings — published 1979
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,764 ratings — published 1981
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,631 ratings — published 1997
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,248 ratings — published 1994
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,208 ratings — published 1972
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,183 ratings — published 1949
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,347 ratings — published 1985
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,119 ratings — published 2004
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.01 — 23,042 ratings — published 2005
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.78 — 22,366 ratings — published 2006
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 717 ratings — published 1985
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,285 ratings — published 1977
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,331 ratings — published 1959
Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,585 ratings — published 2003
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,178 ratings — published 1991
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,109 ratings — published 2018
The Films in My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 746 ratings — published 1975
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by (shelved 87 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,013 ratings — published 1991
This Is Orson Welles (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,176 ratings — published 1992
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,580 ratings — published 1992
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,364 ratings — published 2003
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.92 — 925 ratings — published 1947
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,747 ratings — published 1995
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,713 ratings — published 2002
Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,219 ratings — published 2002
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,997 ratings — published 2008
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,505 ratings — published 2007
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 713 ratings — published 1974
What is Cinema?: Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.18 — 572 ratings — published 1971
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,720 ratings — published 1983
Images: My Life in Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 878 ratings — published 1990
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,292 ratings — published 2004
Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 388 ratings — published 2009
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,531 ratings — published 1964
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,691 ratings — published 2004
Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.30 — 912 ratings — published 1993
“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.”
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“Take a drawing by Matisse, a simple curve of a leg or a shoulder. Is there a basis, at the beginning when he starts drawing his curve? There isn’t. This is what I’m trying to say. And that’s what comprises the originality of Max Ophuls, which he acquired a little bit at a time, because in Liebelei, in Letter from an Unknown Woman, in his American films, it’s not there. It’s a freedom that is earned and that is found, that isn’t applied. On a basic level, it’s neither better nor worse as a way of making a film. But there’s something extremely original that we found so satisfying back in the day and that continues to satisfy me now … There’s a kind of pure cinema of that era – you might even call it experimental – which has disappeared. There’s no literature…not that there’s no text or dialogue, but there’s no pre-literature.
(Jean-Luc Godard in conversation with Marcel Ophuls, 2002)”
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(Jean-Luc Godard in conversation with Marcel Ophuls, 2002)”
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