Book Reviews

3D film production based in the home moviemaking tradition is explored and explodes in Ray Zone’s new book, ‘3-DIY: Stereoscopic Moviemaking on an Indie Budget’.

Any film buff will enjoy this tome, but it will be a particular delight for editors to read these war stories from top professionals in the field.

The re-publication of this invaluable tome by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar is a cause for celebration among editors and filmmakers.

Mitch Jacobson helps readers learn the same methods, and perhaps achieve the same results, as the masters of multi-cam.

Richard Pepperman has written his most personal book yet and, once again, it is a work that only the most accomplished editor could produce.

Despite what you may hear about eBook publishing and digital books, the publication of books about film on “dead trees” (or paper) is very much alive.

The act of filmmaking, for Ken Jacobs, is an interrogation of both space and time. 

In the Jean-Luc Godard film Contempt (1963), director Fritz Lang, portraying himself, acidly jokes that CinemaScope “wasn’t meant for human beings. Just for snakes and funerals.”

With this engaging and highly entertaining autobiography, Clark recounts an illustrious career as an editor.

Here are our recommendations of actual books on paper for the film fan on your list.