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Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,284 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 354 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,495 ratings — published 1984
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 294 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,574 ratings — published 1975
Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 9,957 ratings — published 1995
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,432 ratings — published 1995
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,483 ratings — published 1997
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,599 ratings — published 1979
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,532 ratings — published 2022
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,514 ratings — published 1987
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,476 ratings — published 1998
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,888 ratings — published 1967
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,836 ratings — published 1982
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 2,309 ratings — published 1983
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 729 ratings — published 1958
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,536 ratings — published 1981
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,340 ratings — published 1997
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005 (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,734 ratings — published 1979
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,215 ratings — published 1994
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,093 ratings — published 1972
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,152 ratings — published 1949
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,054 ratings — published 2004
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,308 ratings — published 1985
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,986 ratings — published 2006
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,805 ratings — published 1959
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,746 ratings — published 2005
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 679 ratings — published 1985
Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,532 ratings — published 2003
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,244 ratings — published 1977
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.38 — 8,813 ratings — published 2018
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,030 ratings — published 1991
The Films in My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 725 ratings — published 1975
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,311 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 — 892 ratings — published 1947
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,363 ratings — published 1992
This Is Orson Welles (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,148 ratings — published 1992
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by (shelved 78 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,979 ratings — published 1991
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,486 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 — 4,832 ratings — published 2008
Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,175 ratings — published 2002
What is Cinema?: Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 565 ratings — published 1971
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,622 ratings — published 2002
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.30 — 706 ratings — published 1974
Images: My Life in Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 858 ratings — published 1990
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,206 ratings — published 2007
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,156 ratings — published 2004
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,593 ratings — published 2004
Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 865 ratings — published 1993
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,392 ratings — published 1983
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,706 ratings — published 2002
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,269 ratings — published 1964
“The time between midnight and dawn when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palatable. It is the hour when the sleepless are pursued by their sharpest anxieties, when ghosts and demons hold sway. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most children are born.”
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“My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.”
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