James Monaco's How to Read a Film

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"Monaco once again looks at film from many vantage points, as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology. After examining film's close relation to other narrative media such as the novel, painting, photography, television, and even music, the book discusses the elements necessary to understand how films convey meaning, and, more importantly, how we can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate."

Full Title: How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond

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  1. 366 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  2. 166 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  3. 173 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  4. 967 new

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  5. 40 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 38 top lists Check
  6. 207 -

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
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    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  8. 375 -

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  9. 877 -

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  10. 867 -

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  11. 470 -

    Jaws

    1975, in 28 top lists Check
  12. 291 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  13. 741 -

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  14. 953 -

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  15. 159 -

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  16. 758 -

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  17. 306 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 26 top lists Check
  18. 723 -

    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  19. 467 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
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    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  21. 977 new

    There Will Be Blood

    2007, in 20 top lists Check
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    Raging Bull

    1980, in 34 top lists Check
  23. 330 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  24. 82 -

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  25. 816 -

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  26. 862 -

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  27. 278 -

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  28. 370 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  29. 253 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  30. 770 -

    Persona

    1966, in 25 top lists Check
  31. 39 -

    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
  32. 335 -

    Les quatre cents coups

    1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check
  33. 167 -

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  34. 379 -

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
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    Rosemary's Baby

    1968, in 21 top lists Check
  36. 346 -

    Full Metal Jacket

    1987, in 18 top lists Check
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    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
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    Det sjunde inseglet

    1957 — a.k.a. The Seventh Seal, in 25 top lists Check
  39. 228 -

    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
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    Titanic

    1997, in 25 top lists Check
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    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  42. 362 -

    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
  43. 1033 new

    Unforgiven

    1992, in 24 top lists Check
  44. 623 -

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 26 top lists Check
  45. 609 -

    Lost in Translation

    2003, in 19 top lists Check
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
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    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
  48. 739 -

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  49. 762 -

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
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    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
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