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Le Cinéma Book Club 5

For our fifth edition of Le Cinéma Book Club, we invited directors, actors, musicians, critics, and friends to share a film book they love with us. Their picks include essential texts that reflect their unique qualities as artists. Thanks to everyone who shared a book with us!

Sent by Bi Gan. Simulacres et simulation by Jean Baudrillard.

Sent by Thierry de Peretti. Au pied de mont Tabou: Le Cinéma de Miguel Gomes by Cyril Neyrat. “I chose the book on the making of Tabu, because I've often given it as a gift and it always makes me want to make movies…”

Sent by Tyler Mitchell. Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding the American Avant-garde Cinema by James Peterson.

Sent by Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki. On Disney by Sergei Eisenstein.

Sent by Tyler Taormina. Lessons with Kiarostami edited by Paul Cronin. “My favorite film book.”

Sent by Michael Cera. Lessons with Kiarostami edited by Paul Cronin.

Sent by Philippe Grandrieux. L’homme ordinaire du cinéma by J.L. Scheffer.

Sent by Laura Citarella. My Last Sigh by Luis Buñuel. “I wanted to send a photo with a martini next to the book because of that unforgettable chapter in which he spends two pages describing how to make a good martini.”

Sent by Melissa Anderson. Marlene Dietrich: The Life by Maria Riva. “A towering work of matricide.”

Sent by Todd Solondz. Suicide in the Entertainment Industry by David K. Frasier.

Sent by Fox Maxy. There Must Be a Lone Ranger: The American West in Film and in Reality by Jenni Calder.

Sent by Dean Hurley. Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound by Vincent LoBrutto. “Here is a photo of my copy of Sound-On-Film . I purchased this years ago at the historic Samuel French physical location on Sunset (now gone). It's all interviews, oral history-style info dump from practitioners discussing the nuts and bolts of how they did their job. Especially love the ultra-minimal, no-nonsense, military green cover. Incredibly formative resource.”

Sent by Ira Sachs. The Silver Book by Olivia Laing.

Sent by Mary Bronstein. James Dean: Little Boy Lost by Joe Hyams and Jay Hyams, Hollywood and the Great Fan Magazines edited by Martin Levin, LIFE. Hollywood by Taschen, and From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly Haskell.

Sent by Mariano Llinás. Histoire de l’Art: L’Art Moderne I by Elie Faure. “One of the best books ever written for understanding cinema.”

Sent by Alexandre Koberidze. Political Essay Film by Chris Marker, Thomas Tode, and Harun Farocki.

Sent by Athina Rachel Tsangari. I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet by Catherine Breillat.

Sent by John Smith. Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson.

Sent by Hlynur Pálmason. Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson.

Sent by Frédéric Da. Notes sur le cinématographe by Robert Bresson. “THE book I read and flip through constantly and gift to filmmaker friends.”

Sent by Roberto Minervini. Lars von Trier: Interviews edited by Jan Lumholdt.

Sent by Ryan Krivoshey. City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940’s by Otto Friedrich.

Sent by Sophy Romvari. Cassavetes on Cassavetes by Ray Carney.

Sent by Carla Simón. La hipótesis del cine: Pequeño tratado sobre la transmisión del cine en la escuela y fuera de ella by Alain Bergala and La poética de lo cotidiano: Escritos sobre cine by Yasijurō Ozu.

Sent by Courtney Stephens. Commentaires by Chris Marker.

Sent by Giovanni Tortorici. A propos du cinéma. Scritti di cinema by Antonin Artaud.

Sent by Joanna Arnow. Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov edited by Annette Michelson.

Sent by Le Cinéma Club. Schwarzenegger Syndrome: Politics and Celebrity in the Age of Contempt by Gary Indiana.