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Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 498 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,523 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,747 ratings — published 1984
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,725 ratings — published 1975
Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,482 ratings — published 1995
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,718 ratings — published 1995
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,632 ratings — published 1979
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,886 ratings — published 1997
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,283 ratings — published 2022
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,578 ratings — published 1987
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,690 ratings — published 1998
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,913 ratings — published 1967
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,339 ratings — published 1983
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,926 ratings — published 1982
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 758 ratings — published 1958
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,668 ratings — published 1981
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 3,544 ratings — published 1997
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,959 ratings — published 1979
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,228 ratings — published 1994
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,154 ratings — published 1972
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,177 ratings — published 1949
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,094 ratings — published 2004
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,332 ratings — published 1985
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,516 ratings — published 2005
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.78 — 21,451 ratings — published 2006
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 706 ratings — published 1985
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,126 ratings — published 1959
Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,568 ratings — published 2003
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,267 ratings — published 1977
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,109 ratings — published 1991
The Films in My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 740 ratings — published 1975
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,609 ratings — published 2018
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,500 ratings — published 1992
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,348 ratings — published 2003
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.92 — 913 ratings — published 1947
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by (shelved 81 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,992 ratings — published 1991
This Is Orson Welles (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,161 ratings — published 1992
Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,200 ratings — published 2002
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,644 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 — 4,934 ratings — published 2008
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.30 — 713 ratings — published 1974
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,685 ratings — published 2002
What is Cinema?: Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 565 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 — 7,390 ratings — published 2007
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,244 ratings — published 2004
Images: My Life in Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 869 ratings — published 1990
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,599 ratings — published 1983
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,422 ratings — published 1964
Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 892 ratings — published 1993
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,651 ratings — published 2004
Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.79 — 377 ratings — published 2009
“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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“That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."
Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."
But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."
I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"
Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.”
― The Eternity Code
Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."
But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."
I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"
Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.”
― The Eternity Code
