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. 207 -

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
  2. 605 -

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
  3. 607 -

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  4. 606 -

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
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    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  6. 1027 new

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
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    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
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    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  9. 65 -

    Batman Begins

    2005, in 11 top lists Check
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    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
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    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
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    Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    2003, in 18 top lists Check
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    The Shining

    1980, in 28 top lists Check
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    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
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    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
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    Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

    1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 28 top lists Check
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    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
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    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
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    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
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    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
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    Aliens

    1986, in 24 top lists Check
  22. 375 -

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
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    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 38 top lists Check
  24. 490 -

    Kill Bill: Vol. 2

    2004, in 9 top lists Check
  25. 346 -

    Full Metal Jacket

    1987, in 18 top lists Check
  26. 650 -

    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
  27. 291 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  28. 967 new

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
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    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
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    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  31. 306 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 26 top lists Check
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    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
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    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  34. 1038 new

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
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    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
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    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check
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    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
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    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    2004, in 9 top lists Check
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    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
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    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
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    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
  43. 405 -

    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

    2001, in 5 top lists Check
  44. 973 new

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
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    Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

    2001 — a.k.a. Amélie, in 27 top lists Check
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    WALL·E

    2008, in 26 top lists Check
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    Toy Story

    1995, in 25 top lists Check
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    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the...

    2003, in 13 top lists Check
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    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 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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