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Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 474 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,287 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 354 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,499 ratings — published 1984
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 294 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,575 ratings — published 1975
Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 9,961 ratings — published 1995
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,435 ratings — published 1995
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,489 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 — 14,539 ratings — published 2022
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,515 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 — 1,889 ratings — published 1967
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,838 ratings — published 1982
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,310 ratings — published 1983
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 730 ratings — published 1958
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,538 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 123 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,734 ratings — published 1979
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,215 ratings — published 1994
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,092 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 — 1,056 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 — 20,001 ratings — published 2006
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,813 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 — 21,759 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
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.38 — 8,821 ratings — published 2018
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,244 ratings — published 1977
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 — 10,365 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 77 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 — 5,487 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
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
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,205 ratings — published 2007
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,592 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 — 8,394 ratings — published 1983
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,707 ratings — published 2002
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,269 ratings — published 1964
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ”
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