The Secret Language of Film
By: Jean-Claude Carrière
4.04
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A linguagem secreta do cinema é uma das mais importantes reflexões sobre a linguagem cinematográfic…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Todo frequentador de cinema é, a seu modo, um pouco São Tomé: acreditando apenas no que vê e vendo o que acredita ver."-Jean-Claude Carrière, The Secret Language of Film
"Todo frequentador de cinema é, a seu modo, um pouco São Tomé: acreditando apenas no que vê e vendo o que acredita ver."-Jean-Claude Carrière, The Secret Language of Film
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1. Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter
By: Christine Vachon , David Edelstein
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the set of Vachon's best-known fillms, Shooting … read more
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2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
3. Sideways: The Shooting Script
By: Alexander Payne , Jim Taylor
4.32
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The newest screenplay from the Oscar®-nominated writers of Election and About Schmidt, Sideways is … read more
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4. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
5. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
6. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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7. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more
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"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
8. Hope for Film: From the Frontline of the Independent Cinema Revolutions
By: Ted Hope
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring, tell-all look at the indie film business from one of the industry's most passionate p… read more
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9. The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 2nd Edition
By: Christopher Vogler
4.10
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
Provides new insights and observations from Vogler's pioneering work in mythic structure for writer… read more
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"A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is no…"-Christopher Vogler, The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 2nd Edition
"I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your …"-Christopher Vogler, The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 2nd Edition
"Although well played by Billy Zane, Cal in the screenplay is one of the weakest part of the design, and would have been a more effective rival if he were more seductive, a better match for Rose, real…"-Christopher Vogler, The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 2nd Edition
10. The Three Sisters
By: Anton Chekhov
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more
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11. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
12. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
By: Emil Ferris
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monstersis… read more
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13. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
14. Distant Star
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more
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15. Duas Narrativas Fantásticas: A Dócil e O Sonho de Um Homem Ridículo
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , None
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Designadas pelo proprio autor como "narrativas fantasticas", as duas novelas aqui reunidas foram pu… read more
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16. Making Movies
By: Sidney Lumet
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and … read more
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17. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more
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18. Strange Weather in Tokyo
By: Hiromi Kawakami
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school… read more
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19. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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20. In the Blink of an Eye
By: Francis Ford Coppola , Walter Murch
3.00
Format: 18 pages,
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21. Hitchcock
By: Alfred Hitchcock , François Truffaut
4.29
Format: 144 pages,
Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's int… read more
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22. Fever Pitch
By: Nick Hornby
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more
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23. Twilight of the Idols
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more
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24. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
By: David Lynch
4.29
Format: 426 pages,
Where do ideas come from? In Catching the Big Fish, internationally acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch… read more
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25. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
26. A Single Rose
By: Muriel Barbery
3.45
Format: 160 pages, ebook
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey … read more
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"Rain filtered in scattered drops from the leaves; everywhere, an extraordinary moss ruled supreme over its private kingdom; thick and moving, poised on root and stone, it seemed to glitter."-Muriel Barbery, A Single Rose
27. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
28. The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies
By: Ben Fritz
4.02
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and co… read more
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29. Filmcraft: Production Design
By: Fionnuala Halligan
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Production Design, the fifth title in the FilmCraft series, addresses one of the most important rol… read more
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30. The Secret Language of Film
By: Jean-Claude Carrière
4.04
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A linguagem secreta do cinema é uma das mais importantes reflexões sobre a linguagem cinematográfic… read more
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"Todo frequentador de cinema é, a seu modo, um pouco São Tomé: acreditando apenas no que vê e vendo o que acredita ver."-Jean-Claude Carrière, The Secret Language of Film
31. Film Directing Fundamentals: See Your Film Before Shooting
By: Nicholas T. Proferes
4.08
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on the s… read more
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