The Best Books About Film

These are my favorite film books for a given director:

Bresson: Robert Bresson (Reader)
Tourneur: Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall (Fujiwara)
Powell/Pressburger: Arrows of Desire (Christie)
Renoir: Jean Renoir (Durgnat)
Welles: Orson Welles (McBride)
Melville: Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris (Vincendeau)
Dreyer: The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer (Bordwell)
Ford: John Ford (McBride)
Allen: The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen (Bailey)
Ozu: Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (Bordwell)
Kurosawa: The Films of Akira Kurosawa (Richie)
Coen: The Coen Brothers: The Life of the Mind (Mottram)
Lang: The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity (Gunning)
Hawks: Howard Hawks (Wood)
Kubrick: Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze (Nelson)
Hitchcock: Hitchcock's Films Revisited (Wood)

The ones at the bottom of the list were more difficult to choose than at the top, as I have more books on those directors. There are some favorite works I left off of here as well, but no point in transcribing my library. But if you are looking for more examples of great books on Hawks/Kubrick/Hitchcock, I'd be happy to discuss.

Technic

Mars Inc.

Industry:Consumer Products(FMCG) | Company Type: | Company Size:

Company Profile:

2007-3 - Now Advanced Resolution Team Supervisor

Location:Beijing | Job Type:Full-time | Department: | Report to: | Number of Subordinates:employees | :

Job Category:Technical Support/Maintenance Manager

Career Level:Senior Position (Non-managerial)

Responsibilities and Achievements:

Managing and Measuring Responsibilities
- Developed new operation procedure and responsible for team performance resulting in global operational lead
- Manage junior analysts and provide coach for individual career development
- Support manger to recruit new hires and align global way of working with EU and NA teams
- Critical issue management (built and lead cross-functional crisis team, organize crisis meeting and elaborate regular communication to inform senior management team for technical progress and business impact update)

Analytical Responsibilities
- Analyze incidents monthly and work with expert center to determine and act upon potential trend, write report for senior management team. Successfully drive down incidents volume by 8% in two continuous years

Technical Responsibilities
- Responsible for the provision of technical expertise to resolve infrastructure problem of Telecoms, Lotus Domino/Notes, SAP, Corporate Directory, Oracle and Windows/Unix/Linux server
- Specialize in supporting Telecoms including LAN/WAN connectivity&routing, LAN/WAN QoS&performance, DNS/DHCP management, IP telephony, Call center network, VPN connectivity, Business Partner management, LDAP and Polycom Video/Audio conferencing system.
- Lead take-on project, train global support team and cooperate site team and expert center to launch new service

Mazda

Chang'an Ford Mazda Motor Co. Mazda division

Industry:Automobile | Company Type:Joint Venture | Company Size:1000+

Company Profile:

2008-6 - Now technical training specialist

Location:Beijing | Job Type:Full-time | Department:aftermarket service | Report to: | Number of Subordinates:employees | :

Job Category:Automotive Engineer

Career Level:Senior Position (Non-managerial)

Responsibilities and Achievements:

Technical training to Mazda car workshops. The work including car/components functional theory, failure diagnose, replace, tests and other after sales service related technical works.
Developing training files, tool, new training courses, etc.

Satyam Computer Service Company Ltd. (work for customer Chrysler engineering dept..)

Industry:Automobile | Company Type:Foreign Company / Rep. Office | Company Size:1000+

Company Profile:

2007-9 - 2008-6 Assistant Manager

Location:Beijing | Job Type:Full-time | Department: | Report to: | Number of Subordinates:employees | :

Job Category:Automotive Engineer

Career Level:Senior Position (Non-managerial)

Responsibilities and Achievements:

Work as a local engineering team member of Chrysler Technical Center. The duty currently is:
Give technical and engineering support to supplier development/purchase team in mainland China and other NEA region for global procurement projects. Such as the explanation of technical know-how of commodity, material standard and performance/installation requirements,
Give assessment and control to supplier according to DVP&R, FMEA，control plan, project time line, of supplier’s facility.
Cooperate with US engineering colleagues for the progress recognition, timing plan, question answering and support on above arena.
Work with purchase team for better solution of price and quality. Work with SQE team for quality and supplier development.
The undergoing projects including wiring harness, starters, batteries, temperature sensors, cam position sensors, transmission speed/gear range sensors, WSS and
cable, trailer control module, engine block heater, oil pressure switch, clutch switch and other small parts.

Scarlet Empress

Let me drop some thoughts before diving into the rest of the fantastic Glamour Collection and CC's Scarlet Empress this week (Devil is a Woman and Scarlet remain unseen by me). I first saw Blonde Venus years ago because it was my friend's #1 favorite movie. The film struck me like a thunderbolt..I'm not exaggerating, a thunderbolt nearly hit me a few inches away from me as I was cycling through the storm in the lightning capital of the world and turned frighteningly blind for a few minutes. Well Venus pulverized me that much. And it did the same to me twice over the last weekend with the disc from the Glamour Collection. The plot itself appears kind of ridiculous - the ups and downs of a German cabaret singer/housewife who decides to prostitute to make the quick buck to support her husband and so forth. But you're not watching Venus for the story. You're watching it for Marlene and Sternberg's specacular, weird, gorgeous style. One of my favorite shots is when Marlene sits with the cop at a Spanish dive, her hat covering her face partially as she smokes, her eyes dreamy and far away, which has NOTHING to do with what's going on in the scene. You're watching how Sternberg frames her, how he lights the mysterious glow behind her icy veneer - and that is MORE than enough. This reminds me what the film is all about. Marlene on the top of the world through Sternberg's eyes. And nothing else.

Project

2006-8 - 2007-8 application engineer

Location:shanghai,china | Job Type:Full-time | Department: | Report to: | Number of Subordinates:employees | :

Job Category:Automotive Engineer

Career Level:Senior Position (Non-managerial)

Responsibilities and Achievements:

technical application of brake system, including control systems of compress air system, control modules, disc brake and ABS. including technical application, customer change, test and so on. Participated in the new product projects and some parts localization projects.

Siemens VDO Automotive China

Industry:Automobile | Company Type:Foreign Company / Rep. Office | Company Size:1000+

Company Profile:

2004-12 - 2006-8 technical service specialist

Location:shanghai,china | Job Type:Full-time | Department: | Report to: | Number of Subordinates:employees | :

Job Category:Automotive Engineer

Career Level:Senior Position (Non-managerial)

Responsibilities and Achievements:

technical support and instruction of automotive electrical products for installation and operation, installation solution, trouble shooting, training and question answering to vehicle makers and dealers; information feedback, participate in related projects management. Including OEM projects and area bidding projects.

Xi'an Silverbus Co.

Industry:Automobile | Company Type:Joint Venture | Company Size:100 - 499

Company Profile:

1998-7 - 2004-10 project engineer

Location:xi'an | Job Type:Full-time | Department: | Report to: | Number of Subordinates:employees | :

Job Category:Automotive Engineer

Career Level:Senior Position (Non-managerial)

Responsibilities and Achievements:

Project design for bus body electrical system and function test of vehicle after production, make technical drawing, BOM, production engineering, supplier localization, and so on.