Le Cinéma Book Club 4
We invited directors, writers, critics, curators, and friends to send a photo of a film book they love. From personal touchstones to rare first editions, here’s the fourth edition of Le Cinéma Book Club. Thanks to everyone who sent a book.
Sent by Sean Baker. The Films of Tinto Brass: From the Avant-Garde to Erotica edited by Nico B.
Sent by Richard Brody. Jean-Luc Godard par Jean-Luc Godard, Tome 2: 1984 - 1998 by Jean-Luc Godard.
Sent by Louis Garrel. Conversation avec Billy Wilder by Cameron Crowe.
Sent by Ed Halter. Blue Movie by Andy Warhol.
Sent by Payal Kapadia. Once It Flowers by Vinod Kumar Shukla.
Sent by Alex Ross Perry. Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store by Daniel Herbert. "“The book that directly inspired the video store doc I am currently finishing, otherwise would have submitted Truffaut’s Films of My Life .”
Sent by Mahdi Fleifel. Film as an Artform and Other Essays by Maya Deren.
Sent by India Donaldson. Cassavetes Directs: John Cassavetes and the Making of Love Streams by Michael Ventura.
Sent by Will Arbery. Decalogue: The Ten Commandments by Krzysztof Kieślowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz.
Sent by Thomas Beard. The Compound Cinema: The Film Writings of Harry Alan Potamkin edited by Lewis Jacobs.
Sent by Lilith Kraxner. My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman.
Sent by Ashley Clark. Framing Blackness: The African Image in Film by Ed Guerrero.
Sent by A.V. Rockwell. Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities by Stefan Riekele.
Sent by Theo Anthony. An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger. "While not explicitly a book about film, it’s a book that showed me the types of films that could be made — how old forms could be undone and rearranged in the service of something new."
Sent by Zia Anger. Brecht for Beginners by Michael Thoss. ”It seems stupid but it’s great.”
Sent by Tina Satter. Day is Done by Mike Kelley.
Sent by Naomi Fry. High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess by Charles Fleming
Sent by Alice Diop. Reel to Real by bell hooks. "I’m in Cambridge right now and without all of my books on hand, otherwise I would have sent Marguerite Duras’ Green Eyes." Alice Diop
Sent by Bertrand Bonello. Films Liberate the Head: Essays and Work-Notes by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Sent by Neo Sora. The Theory of Screenplay Structure by Kōgo Noda. “This is the how-to book written by Ozu’s long-time screenwriter, Kōgo Noda. This screenwriting book helped me more than any other. Though not translated into English yet, it’s my dream to do it one day.”
Sent by Carson Lund. Picture by Lillian Ross.
Sent by Radu Jude. One-Way Street and The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin. "One-Way Street and The Arcades Project are not only amazing books, but they offer great lessons in observing, in quoting and putting together the texts. They are great books about montage, in fact."
Sent by C. Mason Wells. Cleo from 5 to 7 by Agnès Varda. “Gallimard 1st edition of Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7 screenplay, with a map of Cleo's route in the film.”