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. 291 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  3. 366 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  4. 330 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
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    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
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    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
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    The Truman Show

    1998, in 14 top lists Check
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    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  10. 228 -

    The Departed

    2006, in 20 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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    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
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    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  14. 362 -

    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
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    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  16. 306 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
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    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
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    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 38 top lists Check
  19. 977 new

    There Will Be Blood

    2007, in 20 top lists Check
  20. 346 -

    Full Metal Jacket

    1987, in 18 top lists Check
  21. 373 -

    Good Will Hunting

    1997, in 12 top lists Check
  22. 156 -

    Children of Men

    2006, in 12 top lists Check
  23. 139 -

    Catch Me If You Can

    2002, in 9 top lists Check
  24. 609 -

    Lost in Translation

    2003, in 19 top lists Check
  25. 547 -

    La vita è bella

    1997 — a.k.a. Life Is Beautiful, in 22 top lists Check
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    The Breakfast Club

    1985, in 10 top lists Check
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    Titanic

    1997, in 25 top lists Check
  28. 484 -

    Juno

    2007, in 12 top lists Check
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    Dead Poets Society

    1989, in 12 top lists Check
  30. 166 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
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    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  32. 314 -

    Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    1986, in 11 top lists Check
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    The Royal Tenenbaums

    2001, in 8 top lists Check
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    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
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    Amadeus

    1984, in 23 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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    Jaws

    1975, in 28 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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    Magnolia

    1999, in 17 top lists Check
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    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
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    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  42. 159 -

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
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    Million Dollar Baby

    2004, in 12 top lists Check
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    Rain Man

    1988, in 14 top lists Check
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    Rocky

    1976, in 20 top lists Check
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    Raging Bull

    1980, in 34 top lists Check
  47. 165 -

    Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

    1988 — a.k.a. Cinema Paradiso, in 20 top lists Check
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    Rosemary's Baby

    1968, in 21 top lists Check
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    Cast Away

    2000, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
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