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LE CINÉMA BOOK CLUB 2

For the second edition of Le Cinéma Book Club, we invited again directors, musicians, artists, writers, and friends to send a photo of a film-related book they love. From high school favorites to recent discoveries, here are this year’s recommendations.

Sent by Michael Chaiken. A Year in the Dark by Renata Adler.

Sent by Michael Chaiken. A Year in the Dark by Renata Adler.

Sent by Arthur Jafa. Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966 - 2016 by Peter Gidal, Cinema 1: The Movement Image by Gilles Deleuze, Éloge de l'amour by Jean-Luc Godard, and Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film by Tony Pipolo.

Sent by Ottessa Moshfegh. Collected Screenplays 1 by Paul Schrader.

Sent by Zoë Ghertner. Dance with Camera edited by Jenelle Porter.

Sent by Wes Anderson. My Last Breath by Luis Buñuel.

Sent by Jason Evans. Two-Lane Blacktop by Rudolph Wurlitzer & Will Corry.

Sent by Robert Eggers. The Films of Theo Angelopoulos by Andrew Horton, The Secret Language of Film by Jean-Claude Carrière, and Of Mud & Flame edited by Matthew Harle & James Machin.

Sent by Rachel Kushner. Green Eyes by Marguerite Duras.

Sent by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. The Complete Works of Yasujirō Ozu (Japanese Edition).

Sent by Jim Jarmusch. Film Works by Robert Frank.

Sent by Sean Price Williams. Immoral Tales by Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs. “A very important book for me in high school. and has become essential again.”

Sent by Dasha Nekrasova. Cronenberg on Cronenberg edited by Chris Rodley and Kazan on Directing by Elia Kazan.

Sent by Philippe Parreno. The History of Forgetting by Norman M. Klein.

Sent by James Gray. John Ford: The Man and His Films by Tag Gallagher.

Sent by A. S. Hamrah. The Front Line 1983 by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Sent by Kim Gordon. Catherine Breillat by Douglas Keesey.

Sent by M/M (Paris). Les Images d'Antonioni by Carlo di Carlo.

Sent by M/M (Paris). Les Images d'Antonioni by Carlo di Carlo.

Sent by Brady Corbet. Collected Screenplays by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Sent by Durga Chew-Bose. Portrait of a Director: Satyajit Ray by Marie Seton.

Sent by Nicolas Saada. The Films in My Life by François Truffaut, Hitchcock/Truffaut by François Truffaut, and Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson.

Sent by Mary Manning. Reel to Real: Race Sex and Class at the Movies by bell hooks and Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh edited by Amy Raphael.

Sent by Eliel Ford. Pieces of Time: Peter Bogdanovich On the Movies.

Sent by Devika Girish. Montage: Life, Politics, Cinema by Mrinal Sen.

Sent by Eugene Kotlyarenko. The Wretched Screen by Hito Steyerl.

Sent by Amalia Ulman. In Hollywood (Expanded Edition) by Louise Brooks.