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Recommended Film reading (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)

The "Holy Grail" for Kubrick fans...

The Stanley Kubrick Archives
by Alison Castle (Editor)

**BONUS**
Books in the first print run will each include a twelve-frame film strip from a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey owned by Stanley Kubrick

Made in cooperation with Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, and the Stanley Kubrick Estate.

ENTER OUR NEW CINEMA BOOK FORUM ! (Post your favorites!)

FEATURE READS FOR June - 2005!

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Essential Cinema
by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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STRONG RECOMMENDED:

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A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie

Tokyo Story

by Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda, Donald Richie, Eric Klestadt

Ozu's Tokyo Story

by David Desser
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DREYER IN DOUBLE REFLECTION
edited with commentary by Donald Skoller		 S.M. Eisenstein: Selected Works : Towards a Theory of Montage
by S.M. Eisenstein, Michael Glenny		 Conversations With Fellini
by Costanzo Costantini, Sohrab Sorooshian
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Hawks on Hawks
by Joseph McBride 		Herzog on Herzog
by Paul Cronin 		David Lean: A Biography
by Kevin Brownlow
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Riefenstahl Olympia, by Leni Riefenstahl The Films in My Life
by Francois Truffaut, Leonard Mayhew 		Film Lighting
by Kris Malkiewicz
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INTRODUCTIONS

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Roger Ebert's Book of Film ed. by Roger Ebert

 

 An Introduction to Film Studies ed. by Jill Nelmes Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson* (a great starting point)
     

Film History: An Introduction by Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell Theory of Film by Siegfried Kracauer Writers At The Movies
     

Understanding Movies by Louis Gianetti The Art Of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer by Paul Schrader
     

 

Further Reading:

Understanding Movies by Louis D. Giannetti

Screening History by Gore Vidal

 

DIRECTOR STUDIES

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Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski by Annette Insdorf Truffaut: A Biography by Antoine do Baecque and Serge Toubiana Orson Welles: The Road to Xanada by Simon Callow
     
Kubrick: Inside A Film Artist's Maze by Thomas Allen Nelson Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis by Alexander Walker Stanley Kubrick Companion by James Howard
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The Complete Kubrick by David Hughes Narrative And Stylistic Patterns In The Films Of Stanley Kubrick by Luis Garcia Mainar The Making Of 2001: A Space Odyssey
     
The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Ritchie Ozu by Donald Ritchie Robert Bresson by James Quandt
     
The Films of John Cassavetes: The Adventure of Insecurity by John Cassavetes and Ray Carney Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar by Paul Julian Smith The Films of Paul Morrissey by Maruice Yacowar
     
Chaplin and America Culture by Charles Maland Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative And Stylistic Analysis by Mario Falsetto The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue by Vida T. Johnson and Graham Petrie
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Agnes Varda by Alison Smith My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer by Jean Drum and Dale Drum Hitchcock's Notebooks by Dan Aulier
     

 

Further Reading:

Tarkovsky: Cinema as Poetry by Maya Turovskaya

Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s by Donald Kirihara

Ingmar Bergman: A Critical Biography by by Peter Cowie

Films of Luis Bunuel: Subjectivity and Desire by Peter William Evans

 

 

BOOKS BY DIRECTORS

(including memoirs and collected interviews) 

 

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Sculpting in Time: Reflections on Cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky Kieslowski on Kieslowski ed. by Danusia Stok Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut* (a great starting point)
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Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe Getting Away With It: Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw by Steven Soderbergh Godard on Godard : Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard
     
The Name Above the Title by Frank Capra On Directing Film by David Mamet Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson
     
Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa The Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman Images: My Life in Film by Ingmar Bergman
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My Last Sigh by Luis Bunuel Scorsese on Scorsese  by David Thompson Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste by John Waters