context: movies

Sources

This is where I list the books and websites I've looked at to write whatever I have on movies. I'll be honest about my opinion about the sources, but don't take a lack of a review as meaning anything. It might just mean that I read the book long ago and have only glanced back at a few pages recently, so can't say anything meaningful. There will be a link to any websites referenced, but I'll offer book links to either Amazon so that you can buy the book if you so wish, or to a review page here, or both if possible. If there is no Amazon link, I couldn't find it on Amazon when I put the entry in here - that doesn't mean it's unavailable now. (And no special endorsement of Amazon is implied by this.)

Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema by David Bordwell (review) (buy it)

BFI Film Classics: An Actor's Revenge by Ian Breakwell (review) (buy it)

Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film by Chris D (review) (buy it)

Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook by Patrick Galloway (review) (buy it)

Reading A Japanese Film: Cinema In Context by Keiko I. McDonald (review) (buy it)

BFI Film Classics: In The Realm of the Senses by Joan Mellen (review) (buy it)

BFI Film Classics: Seven Samurai by Joan Mellen (review) (buy it)

The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Richie (review) (buy it)

A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie (review) (buy it)