The Film Book: A Complete Guide to the World of Cinema

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I recommend for people interested in knowing more about film, without getting into academic details. Immerse yourself into the world of cinema and discover action-packed chases, epic journeys, and tear-jerking moments. Constance Wu and Henry Golding lead the romantic comedy about a Chinese American woman who travels to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family. Sometimes, especially after you’ve just stumbled out of the remake of Clash of the Titans, that seems an intellectually responsible position.

For one thing, Perez magnificently vindicates the beauty of illusionism – a salutary attitude after decades of academic militancy that judged it a ruling-class plot.

In the absence of a full book on my favourite contemporary film-makers, this pamphlet that came with the DVD Quay Brothers: The Short Films 1979-2003 will do very well. Bresson’s slender collection of jottings and aphorisms (“The ejaculatory force of the eye”; “The terrible habit of theatre”; “Don’t run after poetry: it penetrates unaided through the joins”) is a witty example of the virtues of brevity. She also addresses the important issue of representation in the industry, and why it's so important to creating good movies.

Rosenblum and Roberts, a film editor and a journalist respectively, have written a book that's part exploration of the history of film editing and how the job works, and part personal story about Rosenblum's work on multiple classic Woody Allen films and other movies that have received great acclaim. First published in 1988, and thus the only one of my choices not first published in the 1960s (showing my age). Lawrence's novel about an affair between a gamekeeper and an upper-class woman is notorious for its explicit descriptions of sex—so much so that the book was banned for obscenity in several countries.It’s an informative delight to read and look at and the kind of thing that gives passionate enthusiasm a good name. Andra Day was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress for her portrayal of legendary singer Billie Holiday in this biographical film, which was based in part on Johann Hari's book about the history and impact of drug criminalization. Leyda spent several years in the USSR in the mid-30s, studying at the world’s first film school, and assisting Eisenstein on his eventually banned film, Bezhin Meadow. A comprehensive, fun-to-browse, and easy-to-use source of everything you want to know about the movies and the people behind them, The Film Book is a unique treasure trove of a guide that will appeal to anyone who loves movies. One of the great landmarks, a meeting of two film cultures, two languages, two personalities – full of omissions and evasions, but richly suggestive, and a demonstration that criticism and creation can enter into a significant dialogue.

Here I have to declare an interest, in both senses: an enduring love of the Western, and a role in editing the much-expanded second edition of 2004. A manifesto for a revolutionary cinema, this compact selection of talks with and essays by Jacques Rivette includes his seminal text on Fritz Lang’s Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Ronald Bergan was a British film historian, critic, and regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper.Packed full of illustrations, the book features over 100 films and is a great way to learn more about the genre and discover new movies to watch. First published in 1979, this is by some way the best, most wide-ranging single-volume reference book on the cinema ever written. In that context, even Thomson’s diminishing interest in cinema – or current cinema at any rate – becomes a source of fascination.