Let’s create an official Deep Focus Philosophy list together. Which “must-read” film or philosophy books might I be missing? Which ones don’t you think belong? Vote for your favorite ones or add one.
Currently the list has 50 books.
Film Book List
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
Film as a Subversive Art
Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies
The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
Scorsese on Scorsese
Lynch on Lynch
The Big Goodbye
Godard on Godard
Rebel Without a Crew
5001 Nights at the Movies
Film Form and The Film Sense
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film 25
Cinema Speculation
Sculpting in Time
Notes on cinematography
Making Movies
I Lost It at the Movies
Hichcock/Truffaut
Moviemakers’ Master Class: Private Lessons from the World’s Foremost Directors
Philosophical Book List
Meditations
Poetics
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Perennial Philosophy
The Republic
The Rebel
Myth of Sisyphus
The Sublime Object Ideology
Crime and Punishment
The Kybalion
Meditations of First Philosophy
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Metaphysics
The Critique of Pure Reason
Plato’s Theaetetus
Prolegomena
Being and Time
Beyond Good and Evil
Thusness
Tao te Ching
The Bhagavad Gita
Sun and Steel
The Book of Five Rings
The Doors of Perception
The Dhammapada
What I Believe – Leo Tolstoy
The Wisdom of Leo Tolstoy