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Akira Kurosawa – Something Like an Autobiography (1981)

Alison Taylor – Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema (2017)

Anne Edwards – Judy Garland: A Biography (1975)

Anthony N. Fragola, Roch C. Smith – The Erotic Dream Machine: Interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet on His Films (1992)

Ash Carter, Sam Kashner – Life Isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends (2019)

Brian Ruh – Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii (2004)

Bruce Robinson – Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay (1989)

Chris Fujiwara – Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall (1998)

Colin MacCabe – Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy (2003)

Daisuke Miyao – The Aesthetics of Shadow Lighting and Japanese Cinema (2013)

David Bellos – Jacques Tati: His Life and Art (1999)

Derek Jarman – At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament (1992)

Derek Jarman – Dancing Ledge (1984)

Gerald Clarke – Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (2000)

Hayao Miyazaki – Starting Point: 1979–1996 (1996)

Hayao Miyazaki – Turning Point: 1997–2008 (2008)

Hugo Vickers – Loving Garbo: The Story of Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton, and Mercedes de Acosta (1994)

Jeffrey Vance, Lorna Luft – A Star Is Born: Judy Garland and the Film that Got Away (2018)

John Waters – Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters (1986)

John Waters – Role Models (2010)

Lutz Koepnick – The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous (2017)

Mark Harris – Mike Nichols: A Life (2021)

Michael Berry – Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke (2022)

Michael Witt – Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian (2013)

Mick LaSalle – The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses (2012)

Paisley Livingston – Ingmar Bergman and the Rituals of Art (1982)

Peter Manso – Brando: The Biography (1994)

Richard E. Grant – With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant (1996)

Robert Gottlieb – Garbo (2021)

Robert Hofler – The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson (2005)

Robert Kolker – A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman (1980)

Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon (2019)