Sight & Sound’s Top Five Film Books
This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
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.
| 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 |