18 books
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Cinema Books
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Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 483 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,375 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,608 ratings — published 1984
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,632 ratings — published 1975
Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,160 ratings — published 1995
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,550 ratings — published 1995
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,624 ratings — published 1997
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,610 ratings — published 1979
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,860 ratings — published 2022
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,544 ratings — published 1987
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,551 ratings — published 1998
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,900 ratings — published 1967
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,863 ratings — published 1982
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,329 ratings — published 1983
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 742 ratings — published 1958
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,587 ratings — published 1981
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,477 ratings — published 1997
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005 (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,825 ratings — published 1979
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,218 ratings — published 1994
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,117 ratings — published 1972
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,163 ratings — published 1949
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,074 ratings — published 2004
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,323 ratings — published 1985
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.77 — 20,652 ratings — published 2006
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,085 ratings — published 2005
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,946 ratings — published 1959
Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,551 ratings — published 2003
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 689 ratings — published 1985
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,256 ratings — published 1977
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,162 ratings — published 2018
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,066 ratings — published 1991
The Films in My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 731 ratings — published 1975
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,324 ratings — published 2003
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,426 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 — 901 ratings — published 1947
This Is Orson Welles (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,151 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 — 1,983 ratings — published 1991
Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,188 ratings — published 2002
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 — 5,540 ratings — published 1995
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,865 ratings — published 2008
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,641 ratings — published 2002
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 705 ratings — published 1974
What is Cinema?: Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 566 ratings — published 1971
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,259 ratings — published 2007
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,183 ratings — published 2004
Images: My Life in Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 864 ratings — published 1990
Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 872 ratings — published 1993
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,453 ratings — published 1983
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,358 ratings — published 1964
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,607 ratings — published 2004
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,715 ratings — published 2002
“My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.”
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