Sight & Sound sounds off on their top five film books. I’ve written a bit about my most influential film books previously. I would add Story Of The Eye, Camera Lucida, Ways Of Seeing, and The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch to this list. They may not really about film, granted, but they taught me about film for sure.
Day: May 5, 2010
It is a huge number of films made in this country and the world. I used to use the annual Sundance submissions as the number for the number of films made in the U.S. (although that does not include studio films); when I participated in a discussion with Chris Hyams the other night he corrected me and said it was far greater. Whether it is 4500, 7000 in the U.S. or 45,000, the problem is the same.
A huge number of movies are made and few of them are seen, distributed, and championed. We vote for the culture we want with our choices, voices, and dollars.
