The Films in My Life

10 best books like The Films in My Life (François Truffaut): The Medium is the Massage, Ways of Seeing, This Is Orson Welles, Scorsese on Scorsese, Film as a Subversive Art: By Amos Vogel, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, Conversations with Wilder, On Directing Film, The Americans

The Medium is the Massage

Author	Marshall McLuhan
ISBN	1584230703

The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward...

Ways of Seeing

Author	John Berger
ISBN	0140135154

John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener...

This Is Orson Welles

Author

Orson Welles

Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915–1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to his cinematic masterpieces Citizen Kane, The Magnificent...

Scorsese on Scorsese

Author	David Thompson
ISBN	0571178278

This book is filled with insights on Marty's filmmaking process. When I started reading this book, I decided to watch his films along the way. It was a slow but very fulfilling experience! While one may not like all of his films, one would still gain certain appreciation for these films having read his...

Film as a Subversive Art: By Amos Vogel

Author	Amos Vogel
ISBN	1933045272

A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, "Film as a Subversive Art" was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend...

From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film

Author	Siegfried Kracauer
ISBN	0691025053

A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, From Caligari to Hitler was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle--broke...

The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

Author	Michael Ondaatje
ISBN	0375709827

The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through.

It was on the...

Conversations with Wilder

Author	Cameron Crowe
ISBN	0375709673

In Conversations with Wilder, Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.

Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs,...

On Directing Film

Author	David Mamet
ISBN	0140127224

According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this instructive and funny book is written in dialogue form and based on film classes Mamet taught at Columbia University. He encourages his students to tell their stories not with words, but through the juxtaposition...

The Americans

Author	Robert Frank
ISBN	3931141802

Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a...