People have asked me to recommend other resources for studying films, and I thought I would consolidate this in one spot.



Books on film:

“Making Movies” by Sidney Lumet

“On Film-Making” by Alexander Mackendrick

“The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing” by Michael Ondaatje

“Sculpting in Time” by Andrei Tarkovsky

“Reflections: 21 Cinematographers at Work” by Benjamin Bergery



My actual reading recommendation :

Don’t read too much about film. Watching film is plenty. It’s more helpful to read about psychology. After that: history, mathematics, philosophy, biology, astronomy, food, literature, you name it. Whatever interests you to read, will interest you to make films about. If you don’t like to read, uhhhh, I got no advice for you.



Websites I read:

David Bordwell’s blog ( http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog )

Cinephilia & Beyond ( http://cinephiliabeyond.org/ & http://cinearchive.org/ )

A Bittersweet Life ( http://a-bittersweet-life.tumblr.com/ )



Other video essayists:

kogonada ( https://vimeo.com/kogonada )

Kevin B. Lee ( https://vimeo.com/kevinblee )

David Chen ( https://vimeo.com/davidchen )

Matt Zoller Seitz ( https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz )



Filmmaking channels I watch:

filmschoolcomments ( https://www.youtube.com/user/filmschoolcomments )

FilmmakerIQ ( https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmmakerIQcom )

Film Riot ( https://www.youtube.com/user/filmriot )

Enjoy,

-Tony