Books about filmmaking – a few recommendations

Posted in Books, Filmmaking, Screenwriting by 10k films on January 14th, 2010

On Film-making by Alexander Mackendrick and Paul Cronin
The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook by C Jones and G Jolliffe
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje
The Film Director as Superstar by Joseph Gelmis
Screenwriters’ Masterclass by Kevin Conroy Scott
The Film Director’s Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques by Judith Weston
Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Television by Judith Weston
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field
Devotional Cinema by Nathaniel Dorsky
David Mamet: On Directing by David Mamet
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Ozu: His Life and Films by D Richie
The Films of Akira Kurosawa by D Richie
A Hundred Years of Japanese Films: A Concise History by D Richie
How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Theory by James Monaco (Theory)
Which Lie Did I Tell? by William Goldman

Herzog on Herzog edited by Paul Cronin
Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder

The Citizen Kane Book by Pauline Kael
Zen and the Art of Screenwriting 2: More Insights and Interviews by William Froug
I Lost it at the Movies by Pauline Kael