Seriously Moving Images

“For God’s sake, take a look at what is on the SCREEN!”

O. C. Burritt to O. C. Wilson at the first screening of the Vancouver Film Society, 30 September 1936

“City Lights, Vancouver B.C.” [detail of postcard]. The Gowen, Sutton Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B.C. [n. d.]

This Cinephile’s Library: Selected Titles

Robert Bresson. Notes on the Cinematographer. [1975; trans. 1986.] Trans. by Jonathan Griffin. Kobnhavn: Green Integer, 1997.

Kevin Brownlow. The War, the West and the Wilderness. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1978.

Simon Callow. Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu. 1995.

———. Orson Welles: Hello Americans. 2006.

———. Orson Welles: One Man Band. 2015.

Dennis J. Duffy. Camera West: British Columbia on Film, 1941-1965. Victoria, BC: Provincial Archives of British Columbia, 1986.

Akira Kurosawa. Something Like An Autobiography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.

Mark Le Fanu. Mizoguchi and Japan. London: British Film Institute, 2005.

Kevin Macdonald. Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter. London: Faber and Faber, 1994.

Eddie Muller. Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. Revised and expanded edition. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2021.

Michael Powell. A Life in Movies: An Autobiography. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1987.

Donald Richie. A Hundred Years of Japanese Film. Revised edition. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 2005.

Paul Rotha. The Film Till Now: A Survey of World Cinema. New York : Twayne Publishers, 1960. [NOTE: Formerly the personal copy of Stanley Fox.]

Catherine Russell. The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.

Charles Tepperman. Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Filmmaking, 1923-1960. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015,

David Thomson. Suspects. New York: Alfred A. Knopf / London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1985.

———. Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts. Little, Brown, 1998.

———. “Have You Seen . . . ?”: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2008.

———. Moments That Made the Movies. New York: Thames & Hudson 2013.

Woojeong Joo. The Cinema of Yasujiro Ozu: Histories of the Everyday. Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film. Edinburgh University Press, 2017.