1. NYRB Gift Guide II: For the Film-lover

    This week, we’re continuing our gift guide series with books for the cinephile in your life. Read on for books by directors and books that have inspired films.

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    Robert Bresson was one of the most influential directors in the history of French film, and this collection of interviews reveals the intense deliberation and originality that went into each of his works. 

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    Also by Bresson, a book of aphorisms that can apply to life as much as they do to film. As J. Hoberman writes in The New York Times, “Notes on the Cinematograph is the ultimate refinement of Bresson’s thought, a loosely grouped succession of aphorisms and Zen koans.”

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    The memoir of one artist—the masterful director Jean Renoir, renowned for his films Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game—about another artist—his father, the great Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. 

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    The basis for John Huston’s film by the same name, Fat City is a tale of dreamers, drifters, and fighters living in Stockton, California. Watch the trailer for Huston’s film, starring Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges, here

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    This classic book begins in the decayed plantation houses of Jamaica and moves out onto the high seas, following a group of children at the mercy of pirates. Check out the trailer for Alexander Mackendrick’s 1965 film adaptation here.

    One bonus gift idea: if you live in New York, give the gift of movie tickets to Metrograph theater, where our Classics are sold in the bookstore! Visit their website for more information. 

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