Good books on Filmmaking?
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tries too hard, not Veeky Forums
No joke, this guy is not as bad as Veeky Forums makes him out to be. He comes off as pretentious in most of his videos because of all the awkward forced mannerisms, but he has good taste and is at least eloquent.
start with the russians
Andrei Tarkovsky is good.
On Film-Making by Mackendrick is essential.
Film Directing Shot By Shot by Steven D. Katz is useful.
Robert McKee's Story and Dialogue will offer a crash course on screenwriting.
Holman's Sound for Film and Television will offer a guide to sound recording, sound design and the pieces of equipment you will need for good sound recording.
Hitchcock/Truffaut will offer insight into differing methods of directing, screenwriting and also personal insight into both filmmakers themselves.
Honourable mentions: Save The Cat by Blake Snyder, Syd Field's Screenplay and The Screenwriter's Problem Solver, John Yorke's Into The Woods, Weston's Directing Actors, John Truby's Anatomy of Story, DeKoven's Changing Direction, Vogler's The Writer's Journey.
Joseph Campbell's book The Hero With a Thousand Faces is often recommended and it's highly useful but it isn't directly to do with filmmaking but more to do with ancient mythology and their structure's relevance in storytelling in more recent years. It inspires many screenwriters and directors in structuring their own scripts and films. Without it, George Lucas wouldn't have made Star Wars.
For the more theoretical:
Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler if you're interested in German expressionist cinema.
Donald Richie's The Films of Akira Kurosawa if you want an authoritative text on his films, the methods, intentions and processes behind those films. Also see Kurosawa's Something like an Autobiography where he details his early professional career, his childhood, his friendships, sorrows and some useful advice for new filmmakers.
A New History in Japanese Cinema by Isolde Standish. Also Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts; The Warrior's Camera (another book on Kurosawa) and The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema offer fascinating insight into the previous century's historical influences on Japanese cinema and the importance of Japanese cinema overall.
Hope these provide some interest, OP.
t. filmmaking fag.
Yeah, but he wears fingerless gloves
Is Deleuze or Bazin worth reading?
Does On Film-Making discuss the technical aspects of film making, such as lightning, cameras, and the like?
Yeah that's part of what I said about the cringy mannerisms.
Taschen makes good books about film(s)
Start with D. W. Griffith
Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies
Notes on the Cinematographer - Bresson
What is cinema? - André Bazin
The Films in My Life - Truffaut
The Death of the Author
Godard on Godard
Based commentator
this is good
Hope it is.
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cliff is a sood and posting him ought to be a bannable offense
Wim Wenders has a good collection of essays that's certainly illuminating, can't remember the name right now though
If you think of the name please post it. Hopefully this thread will get more active once it gets late.
stop posting your gay YT channel, clive
Cliff is a qt, neck yourself
>doesn't start with the Magic Lantern
FUCK OFF FAGGOT
>Muh Time Pressure
Makes unfalsifiable pseudo-scientific nonsense statements and calls them 'art'.
All of them are useless cliches NEVER EVER read Tarkovsky/McKee ...fucking hacks. It's just pseudo babble for casuals. You're an idiot if you're hoping to read a book to make you a better filmmaker. FUCK OFF. No one has ever flown a plane after reading a book, unless they worship a certain prophet from Jerusalem. JUST FUCKING END YOURSELF in his name.
Books can't help here. They can only inspire.
Having said that, here's my 10 cents.
0 - Bresson - Notes on the Cinematograph - best book by the best filmmaker
1. Walter Murch - genius editing dude - In the Blink of an eye
2. David Mamet - shortest and best book ON DIRECTION
3. Vittorio Storaro - another genius - Writing with light (if you have money then buy "5 Cs of cinematography" It's not required tho. Cinematography can't be taught using a book FUCK OFF)
4. Polanski's Biography
5. Kurosawa, Renoir, Lumet's Biographies
6. Jung's Archetypes - yeah yeah...
7. Filmmaker on Filmmaker series - Read Lars Von Trier, Cassavettes, Bresson, Welles etc etc....
8. just go to TV tropes if you're really stupid and can't understand the basics and cliches of screenwriting/storytelling.
9. Some German guy wrote a book or articles on Haneke i can't be bothered to Google. His articles were the only thing i've ever read that made sense to me as a filmmaker.
Not that dude but, Bazin is too theoretical and Deleuze is incomprehensible.
Assuming you want to be a better filmmaker here's my 2 cents: you'll never get those things unless you study photography and painting or go to a film set/film school. I'd suggest buying a camera and going out. No other way. It takes first hand experience in all departments to be a good filmmaker. Hope that helps.
t. starving filmmaker.
Paul Thomas Anderson's filmmaking skills originated from reading books, user.
Yes, PTA has mentioned Steinbeck, Delillo, DFW and some Viking book and of course Upton Sinclair and Pynchon. But he's never mentioned some 3 Easy Steps to a Great Screenplay. ....And his advice to young filmmakers is ...
"Just don't give a fuck."
How about books on filmmakers? This is perhaps my favourite book on a filmmaker, it's magnificent. If you're a fan, then this is the book for you? If you're not a fan then what the fuck is wrong with you? Go watch some of his films and then read this. Don't do it in the opposite order, you need to have seen his films to appreciate this book, I feel.
Anyway, anyone know any good books on DePalma? Something siding towards more academic analyses as opposed to pop-reviews...
lessons with kiarostami
cassavetes on cassavetes
kieslowski on kieslowski
>Vittorio Storaro
poast links senpai
Thank you everything for this interesting material!
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by Pauline Kael
The Resistance: 10 Years of Pop Culture that Shook the World by Armond White
Everyone else is a pseud, this is all you need.
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he has generic "i'm into art" taste and he brings no insight at all to the table. he's also a conman who created the channel to get a following that would fund his film project.
fuck this guy
The platonic form of a pleb and pseudo
Erm I can't recommend *technical* books on the topic but...
1. Notes on the Cinematographer - Robert Bresson
2. Sculpting in Time - Andrei Tarkovsky
3. Truffaut/Hitchcock - Francois Truffaut
The following are good reads but don't necessarily talk about filmmaking (a little bit though)
1. The Magic Lantern - Ingmar Bergman
2. Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed - Paul Cronin
most have already been said in this thread before, noted
This is the Wenders book. amazon.com
Holy shit, this guy reviewed this book? How did i not know
Good. I was waiting on this. Thanks.
his taste is actually just Veeky Forums and /tv/ memes
i would not at all be surprised if he were in this thread
>read Lars Von Trier
It's as if you hate cinema