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Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 678 times as film)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,810 ratings — published 1995
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 574 times as film)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,959 ratings — published 1995
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 569 times as film)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,709 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 562 times as film)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,907 ratings — published 1984
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 467 times as film)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,846 ratings — published 1998
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 445 times as film)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,818 ratings — published 1975
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 419 times as film)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,662 ratings — published 1979
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 399 times as film)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,687 ratings — published 2022
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 365 times as film)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,114 ratings — published 1997
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as film)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,933 ratings — published 1967
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as film)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,177 ratings — published 1991
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 306 times as film)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,995 ratings — published 2008
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as film)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,106 ratings — published 1979
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as film)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,715 ratings — published 1983
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as film)
avg rating 4.01 — 23,031 ratings — published 2005
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as film)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,209 ratings — published 1972
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as film)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,713 ratings — published 2002
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as film)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,745 ratings — published 1995
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as film)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,627 ratings — published 1997
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as film)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,373 ratings — published 1983
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as film)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,762 ratings — published 1981
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as film)
avg rating 4.29 — 35,806 ratings — published 2013
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by (shelved 224 times as film)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,013 ratings — published 1991
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as film)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,285 ratings — published 1977
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as film)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,394 ratings — published 1992
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as film)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,184 ratings — published 1949
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as film)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,688 ratings — published 2004
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as film)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,100 ratings — published 2018
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as film)
avg rating 4.31 — 713 ratings — published 1974
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as film)
avg rating 3.78 — 22,346 ratings — published 2006
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as film)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,642 ratings — published 1987
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 188 times as film)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,325 ratings — published 1959
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as film)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,735 ratings — published 2002
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as film)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,248 ratings — published 1994
Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as film)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,583 ratings — published 2003
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as film)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,998 ratings — published 1982
Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as film)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,058 ratings — published 1996
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as film)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,364 ratings — published 2003
Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as film)
avg rating 3.97 — 691 ratings — published 1974
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as film)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,120 ratings — published 2004
The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as film)
avg rating 4.03 — 564 ratings — published 1968
On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as film)
avg rating 4.35 — 984 ratings — published 2004
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as film)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,347 ratings — published 1985
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as film)
avg rating 4.06 — 716 ratings — published 1985
House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as film)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,531 ratings — published 2012
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as film)
avg rating 4.20 — 78,112 ratings — published 2014
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as film)
avg rating 3.92 — 925 ratings — published 1947
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as film)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,973 ratings — published 2020
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as film)
avg rating 4.24 — 731 ratings — published 1975
Cinematography: Theory and Practice: Image Making for Cinematographers, Directors, and Videographers (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as film)
avg rating 4.20 — 986 ratings — published 2002
“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”
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“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”
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