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.
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