Sight & Sound’s Top Five Film Books

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Sight & Sound Magazine, 5 Books

Which are the best five books about film ever written? This was the question Sight & Sound asked 51 leading critics and writers – and a clear-cut top five emerged…

This list was originally published in 2010 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
3413 A Biographical Dictionary Of Film David Thomson 1975 British English
5290 Notes On The Cinematographer Robert Bresson 1975 French French
3219 The American Cinema Andrew Sarris 1968 American English
3169 Hitchcock Francois Truffaut 1966 French French
4862 What Is Cinema? André Bazin 1967 French French