film books #2

The Village Voice Film Guide - download
...This guide constructs a canon of great films from the Voice’s archive of movie reviews. Given the tastes and the sensibilities of the paper’s critics, this is an idiosyncratic selection, one that defies conventional wisdom and abides by the tradition of advocacy that has long informed film criticism at the Voice. It was, after all, a Voice staffer, Andrew Sarris, who essentially originated the idea of canon formation as criticism, in his seminal volume The American Cinema.

French Cinema-A Student's Guide - download
...Although there have been many histories of the French cinema, French-specific theorising on the cinema has not to our knowledge formed part of any introductory texts; 'film theory' is seen as a global phenomenon that tends to elide French specific continuities. There are guidebooks on how to study or write on film, but, again, these are not French-specific. There are no books for students outlining the different types of research in French cinema; this is confined to scattered reviews in learned journals or alluded to in a fragmentary way in scholarly tomes. Our volume is an attempt to combine all of these strands - history, theory, practice - with the more usual statistics one might expect to find in a student handbook.

Robert Bresson `Notes On Cinematography` - download
No actors.
(No directing of actors).
No parts.
(No learning of parts).
No staging.
But the use of working models, taken from life.
BEING(models) instead of SEEMING(actors).