5 Top philosophy books like Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky, Kitty Hunter-Blair

Cover of Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky, Kitty Hunter-Blair

Sculpting in Time

By: Andrei Tarkovsky , Kitty Hunter-Blair

4.51

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema--hailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most import…

"The aim of art is to prepare a person for death"

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality."

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object"

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field."

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

If you liked the philosophy plot in Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky, Kitty Hunter-Blair , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Notes on the Cinematographer

By: J.M.G. Le Clézio , Robert Bresson , Jonathan Griffin

3.00

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Robert Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms "cinematography" and som… read more

Similar categories in J.M.G. Le Clézio's Notes on the Cinematographer book and Andrei Tarkovsky's Sculpting in Time

  • art
  • film
  • media tie in
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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2. Qu'est ce que le cinéma?

By: André Bazin

4.01

Format: 511 pages,

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  • art
  • film
  • media tie in
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. What is Cinema?: Volume I

By: Jean Renoir , André Bazin , Hugh Gray

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

The philosophy and unique insights of the late French film critic are revealed in these essays. read more

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  • art
  • film
  • media tie in
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

4. My Last Sigh

By: Luis Buñuel , Abigail Israel

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

This long out-of-paint autobiography provides insight into the genesis of Bunuel's films and convey… read more

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5. Mount Analogue

By: René Daumal

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In this novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount An… read more

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6. The Magic Lantern

By: Ingmar Bergman , Joan Tate

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

"When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of … read more

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7. Herzog on Herzog

By: Paul Cronin

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An invaluable set of career-length interviews with the German genius hailed by Francois Truffaut as… read more

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8. 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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9. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more

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10. Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room

By: Geoff Dyer

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

From a writer whose mastery encompasses fiction, criticism, and the fertile realm between the two, … read more

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11. Tragic Sense of Life

By: Miguel de Unamuno , None

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

To the mentality that assumes, more or less consciously, that we must of necessity find a solution … read more

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12. On Directing Film

By: David Mamet

3.18

Format: 159 pages,

According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this inst… read more

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13. Against Interpretation and Other Essays

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more

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14. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image

By: Gilles Deleuze , Hugh Tomlinson , Barbara Habberjam , None

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

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15. Sculpting in Time

By: Andrei Tarkovsky , Kitty Hunter-Blair

4.51

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema--hailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most import… read more

Similar categories in Andrei Tarkovsky's Sculpting in Time book and Andrei Tarkovsky's Sculpting in Time

  • art
  • russia
  • biography
  • russian literature
  • film
  • media tie in
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • essays
"The aim of art is to prepare a person for death"

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality."

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object"

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field."

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

16. Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer

By: Paul Schrader

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed director of Mishima, American Gigolo, Hard Core, Blue Collar, Cat People also the scr… read more

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17. In the Blink of an Eye

By: Francis Ford Coppola , Walter Murch

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

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18. 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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19. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

By: Robert McKee

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring no… read more

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20. 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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21. Parmenides of Elea: Fragments

By: Parmenides

3.96

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Par… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

5 best-selling nonfiction books like Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky, Kitty Hunter-Blair

Notes on the Cinematographer

J.M.G. Le Clézio , Robert Bresson , Jonathan Griffin

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Qu'est ce que le cinéma?

André Bazin

4.01

Transform Your Habits

What is Cinema?: Volume I

Jean Renoir , André Bazin , Hugh Gray

4.01

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Sculpting in Time

Andrei Tarkovsky , Kitty Hunter-Blair

4.51

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19 Best classics books like Parmenides of Elea: Fragments by Parmenides

Transform Your Habits

Fragments

James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

Transform Your Habits

An Introduction to Metaphysics

Henri Bergson , T.E. Hulme , Thomas A. Goudge

3.90

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The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.41

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Ethics

Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

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