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Libri Film
Libri Film
Walter Murch. Packed with useful information about understanding what makes a film work, focusing
primarily on editing. [Link] Now available in a revised edition with Francis Ford Coppola.
2. On Directing Film
David Mamet. Insightful guidance into understanding the nuts and bolts of directing. [Link]
James Bonnet. Understanding mythic story elements and applying them to your script/film. [Link]
Christopher Vogler. Understanding mythic story elements and applying them to your script/film. [Link]
5. Directing Actors
Judith Weston. Good exercises for rehearsal and working with actors. [Link]
David Howard & Edward Mabley. Great tools for understanding the structure of a script. [Link]
Uta Hagen. Insightful look into the psychology & emotion of the actor. [Link] I've heard that the phrase,
"Let's go talk to Uta," was an inside line among studebt filmmakers that referred to smoking pot.
8. Making Movies
Tony Solomons. Self Explanatory. USC uses Avid workstations almost exclusively. [Link]
The Filmmaker’s Handbook, 3rd Edition by Steven Ascher & Edward Pincus
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style by Christopher
Riley
The Reel Truth: Everything You Didn’t Know You Need to Know About Making an Independent Film by Reed
Martin
Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies That Matter by
Christine Vachon with David Edelstein
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter
Biskind
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
by Peter Biskind
Poetics by Aristotle
Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul by The Film Collaborative, Jon Reiss, and Sheri Candler
The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way
We Tell Stories by Frank Rose.
HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT (1967)
by: Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut
SOMETHING LIKE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1983)
by: Akira Kurosawa
FABER & FABER’S DIRECTORS ON DIRECTORS SERIES
by: Various
THE BFI FILM CLASSICS SERIES
by: Various
FILM ART (1979)
by: David Bordwell and Kristen Thompson
HELLO, HE LIED – AND OTHER TRUTHS FROM THE HOLLYWOOD TRENCHES (1997)
by: Linda Obst
MAKING MOVIES (1996)
by: Sidney Lumet
I LOST IT AT THE MOVIES (1965)
by: Pauline Kael
THE PSYCHOTRONIC VIDEO GUIDE TO FILM (1995)
by: Michael J. Weldon
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1. SAVE THE CAT – Blake Snyder
2. SHOT BY SHOT – Steven D. Katz
3. MASTER SHOTS – Christopher Kenworthy
4. THE DV REBELS GUIDE – Stu Maschwitz
5. DIRECTIING ACTORS – Judith Weston
6. GREENSCREEN MADE EASY – Jeremy Hanke & Michele Yamazaki
7. ON FILM EDITING – Edward Dmytryk
8. THE SOUND EFFECTS BIBLE – Ric Viers
9. THE HOLLYWOOD ECONOMIST – Edward Jay Epstein
10. REBEL WITHOUT A DEAL – Vincent Rocca
How ^NOT to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make - Denny Martin Flinn
Your Screenplay Sucks! 100 ways to make it great - William M. Akers