I decided to stack up some of my favorite film books and keep them right next to my computer. Reference material, but I don't know, there's something about them that makes me happy, too.
Here's what currently makes up the stack. What's on yours?
Qu'est-ce que le cinema? - Andre Bazin (French version)
Pariscope
Hawks on Hawks - Joseph McBride
Movie of the Week - Peter Bogdanovich
The Films in My Life - Francois Truffaut
Who The Devil Made It - Peter Bogdanovich
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Pauline Kael
A Biographical Dictionary of Film - David Thomson
Essential Cinema - Jonathan Rosenbaum
"Have You Seen...?" - David Thomson
Le film noir american (wonderful French noir compendium)
La Politique Des Auteurs (great French book, compiling Cahiers interviews with Dreyer, Hawks, Bunuel, Hitchcock, Bresson, Antonioni, Lang, Rossellini, and Welles)
2 Copies of Cahiers du Cinema from the early 60s
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Brian De Palma (French interview book) - Samuel Blumenfeld/Laurent Vachaud
French New Wave - Jean Douchet
Hit Factories - A Journey Through The Industrial Cities of British Pop # 5
The Human League
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Karl Witney gets off the Megabus from Leeds to The Steel City and wanders
off in search of the sound of Sheffield. Inevitably he ponders The Human
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