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Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 660 times as film)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,570 ratings — published 1995
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 553 times as film)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,565 ratings — published 1966
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 553 times as film)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,768 ratings — published 1995
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 546 times as film)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,778 ratings — published 1984
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 459 times as film)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,746 ratings — published 1998
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 436 times as film)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,757 ratings — published 1975
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 408 times as film)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,642 ratings — published 1979
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 389 times as film)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,393 ratings — published 2022
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 361 times as film)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,943 ratings — published 1997
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as film)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,919 ratings — published 1967
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as film)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,124 ratings — published 1991
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 302 times as film)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,948 ratings — published 2008
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as film)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,633 ratings — published 1983
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as film)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,990 ratings — published 1979
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as film)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,649 ratings — published 2005
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as film)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,166 ratings — published 1972
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as film)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,690 ratings — published 2002
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as film)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,667 ratings — published 1995
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as film)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,569 ratings — published 1997
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as film)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,349 ratings — published 1983
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as film)
avg rating 4.29 — 35,498 ratings — published 2013
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as film)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,690 ratings — published 1981
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by (shelved 215 times as film)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,997 ratings — published 1991
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as film)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,273 ratings — published 1977
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as film)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,293 ratings — published 1992
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as film)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,183 ratings — published 1949
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as film)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,658 ratings — published 2004
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as film)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,707 ratings — published 2018
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as film)
avg rating 4.30 — 713 ratings — published 1974
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as film)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,594 ratings — published 1987
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as film)
avg rating 3.78 — 21,660 ratings — published 2006
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 184 times as film)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,183 ratings — published 1959
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as film)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,728 ratings — published 2002
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as film)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,948 ratings — published 1982
Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as film)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,571 ratings — published 2003
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as film)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,236 ratings — published 1994
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as film)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,350 ratings — published 2003
Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as film)
avg rating 3.97 — 689 ratings — published 1974
Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as film)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,016 ratings — published 1996
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as film)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,098 ratings — published 2004
The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as film)
avg rating 4.02 — 560 ratings — published 1968
On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as film)
avg rating 4.35 — 976 ratings — published 2004
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as film)
avg rating 4.06 — 712 ratings — published 1985
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as film)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,335 ratings — published 1985
House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as film)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,493 ratings — published 2012
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as film)
avg rating 4.20 — 77,209 ratings — published 2014
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as film)
avg rating 3.92 — 913 ratings — published 1947
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as film)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,913 ratings — published 2020
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as film)
avg rating 4.24 — 727 ratings — published 1975
The Kid Stays in the Picture (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as film)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,568 ratings — published 1994
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
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