What to Read After Making Movies
Readers who loved Making Movies by Sidney Lumet keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Making Movies is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Making Movies
Adventures in the Screen Trade
Rebel Without a Crew
On Directing Film
Hitchcock
In the Blink of an Eye
Easy Riders Raging Bulls
Which Lie Did I Tell?
Down and Dirty Pictures
The Conversations
Directing Actors
Scorsese on Scorsese
The Great Movies
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Bambi vs. Godzilla
The Men Who Would Be King
Moviemakers' Master Class
Cassavetes on Cassavetes
Conversations with Scorsese
Pictures at a Revolution
Screenplay
Story
Who the Devil Made It
Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes
A History of Narrative Film