Wenders' 3rd book. 'Essays and Conversations'; mostly interviews conducted around 1990

Mark Salisbury interviews Tim Burton

Nicholas Pileggi's book about Las Vegas and the mob, basis of Scorsese's film

Popular Music and the Movies Since the Fifties; what Martin Scorsese calls "uncharted terriotory"

The Story of Film Censorship in Britain. Tom Dewe Mathews' part reminder of moral excesses, part valuable assessment of contemporary film censorship

Michael Chion's BFI book on Lynch. Dissects the films and TV and adds the Lynch Kit, a sort of subjective dictionary of Lynchian imagery and idea (from Alphabet to Word)

Edited by Roger Wollen; largely successful attempt to contextualise a genuine Renaissance man's life. 151 illustrations archiving his painting; nine essays on various strands of his work

Peter Biskind's vast dissection of 70s American cinema - that delirious, dangerous era

Vincent Ward's production diary of his first three films, In Spring One Plants Alone, Vigil and The Navigator

Frederic Raphael on Eyes Wide Shut and Stanley Kubrick

Steven Soderbergh's hybrid; his own diary, and his thoughts on Richard Lester

Terry Gilliam on himself, edited by Ian Christie

Diaries of British Film-makers at Work, edited by Duncan Petrie

Exhaustive dedication to detail, with all concerned interviewed

Film-makers in Conversation, edited by David Breskin

One of those big Titan books; essentially, riffs on each of the eight features (including Raimi's Crimewave), all the facts, and over 500 illustrations. Edited by Peter Körte and Georg Sessien

Danusia Stok edits out the interview questions, leaving a feature-length monologue filled with detail, intelligence and insight into an extraordinary body of work

A controversial script by Hollywood's brightest new name kid, attached to one of La-La Land's biggest behind-the-camera talents (Oliver Stone). Just point and shoot, right? But as industry wannabes Jane Hamsher and Don Murphy discovered, nothing in this world is ever quite what it seems

John Sayles in his own words, edited by Gavin Smith

Edited by Karl French, 22 essays on the subject

The second and third (last) Shock Xpress books, edited by Stefan Jaworzyn. Contributors for one, the other or both include Kim Newman, Ramsey Campbell, Anne Billson, etc

The making of Velvet Goldmine, or An Insider's Guide to Independent Filmmaking, by Christine Vachon

The film writing of Jonathan Romney

A guided tour of US indie cinema post 1984

The Film Diaries of Richard E Grant

Kim Newman on Tourneur's horror film about a woman who turns into a panther

Mark Kermode speaks for the defence

Anton Kaes' deconstruction of Fritz Lang; a stand-out

Amy Taubin's misreading of Scorsese's classic

Geoff Andrew's appreciation of Kieslowski's trilogy that should be felt as much as understood