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Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 470 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,262 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 6,472 ratings — published 1984
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,568 ratings — published 1975
Making Movies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 9,913 ratings — published 1995
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 8,401 ratings — published 1995
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,449 ratings — published 1997
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,598 ratings — published 1979
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,440 ratings — published 2022
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 3,508 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 — 9,443 ratings — published 1998
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,889 ratings — published 1967
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,831 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)
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avg rating 4.11 — 727 ratings — published 1958
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,520 ratings — published 1981
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 3,331 ratings — published 1997
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005 (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,714 ratings — published 1979
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,091 ratings — published 1972
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,215 ratings — published 1994
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,151 ratings — published 1949
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,053 ratings — published 2004
The Time-Image (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,309 ratings — published 1985
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,798 ratings — published 2006
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,680 ratings — published 2005
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,757 ratings — published 1959
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 677 ratings — published 1985
Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,529 ratings — published 2003
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 8,749 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 — 4,026 ratings — published 1991
The Films in My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 723 ratings — published 1975
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,307 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 — 892 ratings — published 1947
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,362 ratings — published 1992
This Is Orson Welles (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,147 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 — 1,973 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 — 5,472 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 — 4,828 ratings — published 2008
Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,172 ratings — published 2002
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.30 — 705 ratings — published 1974
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,617 ratings — published 2002
What is Cinema?: Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.18 — 563 ratings — published 1971
Images: My Life in Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 857 ratings — published 1990
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,146 ratings — published 2004
Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 864 ratings — published 1993
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,186 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 — 3,584 ratings — published 2004
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,369 ratings — published 1983
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,705 ratings — published 2002
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,254 ratings — published 1964
“Most of the movies are working like, 'Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut' and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information - I try to involve, to the movie, the time, the space, and a lot of other things - which is a part of our life but not connecting directly to the story-telling. And I'm working on the same way - 'information, cut, information, cut,' but for me the information is not only the story.”
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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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