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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    Sherlock Holmes

    2009, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
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    Entre les murs

    2008 — a.k.a. The Class, in 4 top lists Check
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    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

    2008, in 5 top lists Check
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    Twilight

    2008, in 2 top lists Check
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    WALL·E

    2008, in 26 top lists Check
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    Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
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    Beowulf

    2007, in 1 top list Check
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    The Bucket List

    2007, in 1 top list Check
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    Charlie Wilson's War

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Darjeeling Limited

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
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    Encounters at the End of the World

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Great Debaters

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    I Am Legend

    2007, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Interface

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    Juno

    2007, in 12 top lists Check
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    King Corn

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    Michael Clayton

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
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    Molière

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    La môme

    2007 — a.k.a. La Vie en Rose, in 1 top list Check
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    Nature: Raptor Force

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
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    Quarterlife

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    Ratatouille

    2007, in 14 top lists Check
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    The Savages

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
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    Le scaphandre et le papillon

    2007 — a.k.a. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, in 7 top lists Check
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    Sicko

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    2007, in 6 top lists Check
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    There Will Be Blood

    2007, in 20 top lists Check
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    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    War and Peace

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    Youth Without Youth

    2007, in 1 top list Check
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    30 Rock

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
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    Babel

    2006, in 5 top lists Check
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    Cars

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
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    Children of Men

    2006, in 13 top lists Check
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    Coeurs

    2006 — a.k.a. Private Fears in Public Places, in 2 top lists Check
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    Das Leben der Anderen

    2006 — a.k.a. The Lives of Others, in 20 top lists Check
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    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
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    Dreamgirls

    2006, in 2 top lists Check
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    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
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    Flags of Our Fathers

    2006, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Hoax

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
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    An Inconvenient Truth

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Last King of Scotland

    2006, in 1 top list Check
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    Letters from Iwo Jima

    2006, in 5 top lists Check
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    L'ivresse du pouvoir

    2006 — a.k.a. Comedy of Power, in 0 top lists Check
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    Lonelygirl15

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
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    My Super Ex-Girlfriend

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
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    Nuovomondo

    2006 — a.k.a. Golden Door, in 0 top lists Check
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