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Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 639 times as film)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,117 ratings — published 1995
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 544 times as film)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,364 ratings — published 1966
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as film)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,534 ratings — published 1995
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 530 times as film)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,584 ratings — published 1984
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 452 times as film)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,538 ratings — published 1998
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
by (shelved 419 times as film)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,627 ratings — published 1975
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as film)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,606 ratings — published 1979
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as film)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,816 ratings — published 2022
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 353 times as film)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,593 ratings — published 1997
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as film)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,900 ratings — published 1967
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as film)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,059 ratings — published 1991
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 297 times as film)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,859 ratings — published 2008
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005 (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as film)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,807 ratings — published 1979
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as film)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,442 ratings — published 1983
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as film)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,028 ratings — published 2005
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as film)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,112 ratings — published 1972
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as film)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,634 ratings — published 2002
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as film)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,530 ratings — published 1995
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as film)
avg rating 4.28 — 35,034 ratings — published 2013
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as film)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,325 ratings — published 1983
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as film)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,576 ratings — published 1981
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as film)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,381 ratings — published 1997
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by (shelved 215 times as film)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,983 ratings — published 1991
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as film)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,257 ratings — published 1977
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as film)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,180 ratings — published 1992
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as film)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,602 ratings — published 2004
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as film)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,161 ratings — published 1949
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as film)
avg rating 4.31 — 705 ratings — published 1974
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as film)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,537 ratings — published 1987
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 183 times as film)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,920 ratings — published 1959
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as film)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,094 ratings — published 2018
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as film)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,716 ratings — published 2002
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as film)
avg rating 3.77 — 20,518 ratings — published 2006
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as film)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,860 ratings — published 1982
Herzog on Herzog (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as film)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,549 ratings — published 2003
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as film)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,215 ratings — published 1994
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as film)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,321 ratings — published 2003
The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as film)
avg rating 4.03 — 553 ratings — published 1968
On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as film)
avg rating 4.34 — 957 ratings — published 2004
Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as film)
avg rating 3.97 — 690 ratings — published 1974
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as film)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,072 ratings — published 2004
Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as film)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,969 ratings — published 1996
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as film)
avg rating 4.06 — 685 ratings — published 1985
House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as film)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,424 ratings — published 2012
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as film)
avg rating 4.19 — 75,310 ratings — published 2014
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as film)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,323 ratings — published 1985
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as film)
avg rating 3.92 — 901 ratings — published 1947
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as film)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,818 ratings — published 2020
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as film)
avg rating 4.24 — 721 ratings — published 1975
Cinematography: Theory and Practice: Image Making for Cinematographers, Directors, and Videographers (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as film)
avg rating 4.21 — 972 ratings — published 2002
“Film lovers are sick people.”
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“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.”
― Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
― Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
