Film Books of 2025 (Non-Fiction)
5. 
George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director (Film and Culture Series)
by:
Joseph McBride
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director's Chair
by:
Alexandra Seros
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words
by:
Marya E. Gates
4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings 
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Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger (Film and Culture Series)
by:
Rob King
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 18. 
Temporal Territories: An Anthology on Indigenous Experimental Cinema
by:
Raven Chacon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
23. 
David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema
by:
Mike Miley
4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings 
25. 
A Minecraft Movie: From Block to Big Screen
by:
Andrew Farago
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
28. 
The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films
by:
James Miller
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 29. 
Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde--Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop
by:
J. Hoberman
4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings 30. 
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation
by:
Kenneth Turan
4.30 avg rating — 50 ratings 31. 
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Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn: A Walk On The Wild Side With Andy Warhol's Most Fabulous Superstar
by:
Jeff Copeland
4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings 33. 
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I Am McLovin: How Superbad Became the Biggest Comedy Hit of Its Generation
by:
Andrew Buss
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings 35. 
The Search for Bond: How the 007 Role Was Won and Lost
by:
Robert Sellers
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings 
37. 
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
by:
Michael Koresky
3.90 avg rating — 145 ratings 
39. 
Film Critics and British Film Culture: New Shots in the Dark
by:
Robert Shail
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
41. 
We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
by:
Alissa Wilkinson
4.02 avg rating — 201 ratings 42. 
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
by:
Mayukh Sen
3.80 avg rating — 226 ratings 43. 
When Charlie Met Joan: The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law
by:
Diane Kiesel
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
45. 
What Made Cinema? Essays on Visual Culture and Early Film
by:
Ian Christie
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
47. 
The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
by:
Matthew Specktor
3.94 avg rating — 176 ratings 
51. 
Chris Marker: Immemory: Gutenberg Version
by:
Chris Marker
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 52. 
Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran: Kiarostami/Corbin/Lacan
by:
Joan Copjec
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 53. 
Nouvelles Femmes: Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema
by:
Ericka Knudson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 54. 
After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema (Auteur, 1)
by:
Ben Tanzer
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings 55. 
Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies
by:
Bruce Handy
3.52 avg rating — 142 ratings 56. 
Becoming Nosferatu: Stories Inspired by Silent German Horror
by:
Matthew Sorrento
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
58. 
The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
by:
Jay Glennie
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 59. 
Frankenstein: Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro
by:
Sheila O'Malley
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 60. 
The Archival Impermanence Project: Film Restoration Poetics, Case Studies, and Histories
by:
Ross Lipman
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
63. 
Suddenly Something Clicked: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design
by:
Walter Murch
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 64. 
TCM Imports: Timeless Favorites and Hidden Gems of World Cinema
by:
Alicia Malone
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 65. 
Good Movies as Old Books: Films Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers
by:
Matt Stevens
4.35 avg rating — 37 ratings 66. 
Marvel Studios' The Infinity Saga - Guardians of the Galaxy: The Art of the Movie it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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68. 
Hollywood Blackout: The battle for recognition in a white Hollywood
by:
Ben Arogundade
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 
71. 
Marvel Studios' The Infinity Saga - Ant-Man: The Art of the Movie
by:
Jacob Johnston
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 72. 
Marvel Studios' The Infinity Saga - Avengers: Age of Ultron: The Art of the Movie
by:
Jacob Johnston
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
76. 
I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet (Semiotext 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
80. 
Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On
by:
Kristin Russo
4.13 avg rating — 986 ratings 
83. 
Russ Meyer: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)
by:
Ed Symkus
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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90. 
The Mystery of Twin Peaks: Signs – Worlds – References
by:
Caroline Frank
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
93. 
The Attractions of the Moving Image: Essays on History, Theory, and the Avant-Garde
by:
Tom Gunning
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
95. 
Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art
by:
Phaidon Editors
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
97. 
There's No Going Back: The Life and Work of Jonathan Demme
by:
David M. Stewart
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 98. 
Clint: The Man and the Movies―A Comprehensive Biography of Hollywood's Most Iconic Actor-Director
by:
Shawn Levy
4.24 avg rating — 42 ratings 99. 
Comedy Samurai: Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter
by:
Larry Charles
3.63 avg rating — 127 ratings 100. 
“We Must Shoot!” The Life and Art of Gary Graver
by:
Andrew J. Rausch
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating