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The autobiographies of Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray are two of the most passionate, heartbreaking and instructive books about filmmaking ever written. Ray is best known for directing James Dean’s iconic performance in Rebel Without a Cause . Fuller made some of the greatest genre movies of the ’50s and ’60s including The Naked Kiss and Shock Corridor . Both novels are compulsively readable, with enough filmmaking advice to replace an entire year of film school and enough insight into both filmmakers’ lives and struggles to captivate even the most casual cinephile.

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Gift Guide: Essential Reading for Cinephiles and Aspiring Filmmakers