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Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,671 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 390 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,861 ratings — published 1984
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,802 ratings — published 1975
Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,716 ratings — published 1995
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,898 ratings — published 1995
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,658 ratings — published 1979
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,070 ratings — published 1997
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,595 ratings — published 2022
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,633 ratings — published 1987
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,815 ratings — published 1998
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,929 ratings — published 1967
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,366 ratings — published 1983
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,986 ratings — published 1982
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 772 ratings — published 1958
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,068 ratings — published 1979
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,609 ratings — published 1997
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,741 ratings — published 1981
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,244 ratings — published 1994
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,192 ratings — published 1972
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,183 ratings — published 1949
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,110 ratings — published 2004
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,343 ratings — published 1985
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,908 ratings — published 2005
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.78 — 22,108 ratings — published 2006
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,278 ratings — published 1977
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 712 ratings — published 1985
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,278 ratings — published 1959
Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,580 ratings — published 2003
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,163 ratings — published 1991
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,966 ratings — published 2018
The Films in My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 743 ratings — published 1975
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by (shelved 86 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,009 ratings — published 1991
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,555 ratings — published 1992
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,363 ratings — published 2003
This Is Orson Welles (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,174 ratings — published 1992
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.92 — 920 ratings — published 1947
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,728 ratings — published 1995
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,706 ratings — published 2002
Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,216 ratings — published 2002
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,985 ratings — published 2008
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,466 ratings — published 2007
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.30 — 714 ratings — published 1974
What is Cinema?: Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.18 — 571 ratings — published 1971
Images: My Life in Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 875 ratings — published 1990
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,693 ratings — published 1983
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,278 ratings — published 2004
Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 383 ratings — published 2009
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,489 ratings — published 1964
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,679 ratings — published 2004
Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 903 ratings — published 1993
“My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.”
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