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Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 505 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,656 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,839 ratings — published 1984
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,796 ratings — published 1975
Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,683 ratings — published 1995
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,872 ratings — published 1995
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,655 ratings — published 1979
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,050 ratings — published 1997
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,560 ratings — published 2022
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,624 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 — 9,803 ratings — published 1998
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,926 ratings — published 1967
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,364 ratings — published 1983
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,978 ratings — published 1982
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 772 ratings — published 1958
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,053 ratings — published 1979
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,731 ratings — published 1981
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,603 ratings — published 1997
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,243 ratings — published 1994
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,190 ratings — published 1972
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,183 ratings — published 1949
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,107 ratings — published 2004
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,342 ratings — published 1985
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,864 ratings — published 2005
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.78 — 22,047 ratings — published 2006
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,277 ratings — published 1977
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 710 ratings — published 1985
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,258 ratings — published 1959
Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,577 ratings — published 2003
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,155 ratings — published 1991
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,912 ratings — published 2018
The Films in My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 742 ratings — published 1975
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,551 ratings — published 1992
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by (shelved 86 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,009 ratings — published 1991
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,363 ratings — published 2003
This Is Orson Welles (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,173 ratings — published 1992
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.92 — 920 ratings — published 1947
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,715 ratings — published 1995
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,702 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 — 1,215 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 4.26 — 4,980 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 — 7,459 ratings — published 2007
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 713 ratings — published 1974
What is Cinema?: Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.18 — 571 ratings — published 1971
Images: My Life in Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 873 ratings — published 1990
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,687 ratings — published 1983
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,274 ratings — published 2004
Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 382 ratings — published 2009
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,472 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 — 3,675 ratings — published 2004
Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 902 ratings — published 1993
“Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...”
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“Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create”
― Notes on the Cinematographer
― Notes on the Cinematographer
