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. 79 -

    Berlin Alexanderplatz

    1980, in 7 top lists Check
  2. 189 -

    Cosmos

    1980, in 2 top lists Check
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    An American Family

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 168 -

    The Civil War

    1990, in 3 top lists Check
  5. 839 -

    Roots

    1977, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 281 -

    Empire

    1964, in 5 top lists Check
  7. 425 -

    Holocaust

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
  8. 1050 new

    War and Peace

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 295 -

    Eyes on the Prize

    1987, in 1 top list Check
  10. 479 -

    Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth

    1988, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 33 -

    Angels in America

    2003, in 0 top lists Check
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    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
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    Pride and Prejudice

    1995, in 2 top lists Check
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    Novecento

    1976 — a.k.a. 1900, in 6 top lists Check
  15. 922 -

    Smoking/No Smoking

    1993, in 2 top lists Check
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    Scener ur ett äktenskap

    1973 — a.k.a. Scenes from a Marriage, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Memory of Justice

    1976, in 2 top lists Check
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    La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios...

    1968 — a.k.a. The Hour of the Furnaces, in 9 top lists Check
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    When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

    2006, in 6 top lists Check
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    Out 1: Spectre

    1972 — a.k.a. Out One, in 3 top lists Check
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    L'amour fou

    1969, in 5 top lists Check
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    Le chagrin et la pitié

    1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check
  23. 256 -

    Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler

    1922 — a.k.a. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, in 14 top lists Check
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  25. 408 -

    Heaven's Gate

    1980, in 8 top lists Check
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    La maman et la putain

    1973 — a.k.a. The Mother and the Whore, in 14 top lists Check
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    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
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    Andrey Rublyov

    1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check
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    Boccaccio '70

    1962, in 1 top list Check
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    Malcolm X

    1992, in 7 top lists Check
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
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    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
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    Titanic

    1997, in 25 top lists Check
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    Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies...

    1974 — a.k.a. Celine and Julie Go Boating, in 11 top lists Check
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    Cleopatra

    1963, in 5 top lists Check
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    Nixon

    1995, in 2 top lists Check
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    Gandhi

    1982, in 15 top lists Check
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    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
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    JFK

    1991, in 13 top lists Check
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    Fanny och Alexander

    1982 — a.k.a. Fanny and Alexander, in 25 top lists Check
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    Magnolia

    1999, in 17 top lists Check
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    Il gattopardo

    1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard, in 18 top lists Check
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    L'albero degli zoccoli

    1978 — a.k.a. The Tree of Wooden Clogs, in 13 top lists Check
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    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
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    Woodstock

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
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    Gösta Berlings saga

    1924 — a.k.a. The Saga of Gösta Berling, in 4 top lists Check
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    Dances with Wolves

    1990, in 18 top lists Check
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    La région centrale

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
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