This article was written by Nick James.
“Which are the best five books about film ever written? This was the question ‘Sight & Sound’ asked leading critics and the results might surprise you. Revealing his ideal film bookshelf, Nick James introduces our special poll.
The possibility of an ideal film bookshelf is always intriguing: that along a single shelf you could fit the most inspirational books everyone interested in film needs to read – particularly anyone just starting their adult cinema adventures. Before we conducted our survey, I thought I knew which books were most likely to sit snugly on that shelf. That certainty was allied to a strong suspicion that the field of film literature already had its own Citizen Kane in David Thomson’s A Biographical Dictionary of Film.”
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