Here are a few books I read this year, 2015, about filmmaking, with ratings.
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Excellently written; strong opinions; fine details and deep analysis, good film stills.
This attractive author was holding back practical knowledge on actual creating - I did not rent this book to learn his story.
For the first ~300 pages I thought it was a wonderful book. Then, after the huge poorly structured chapter about ethics of film, which messy dates and titles with occasional remarks of random value had little to do with ethics, I changed...
Outdated; some deep psychological advice, some weird.