FILMRADAR presents a list of shopping sites and recommended reading materials!

Listed below are some great places to buy everything from DVDs, videos, posters, books, and hard to find items. These also make great gifts!

Recommended Reading

There are a ton of great books covering the spectrum of eras, genres, stars, and filmmakers.  There is no way I could list them all.  This is just a good jumping off point for those who are curious to learn more!

Silent Era

• American Silent Film by William K. Everson
• The Day the Laughter Stopped by David Yallop (only in libraries)
• Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino by Emily Leider
• The Films of Lon Chaney by Michael F. Blake
• Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin by Joyce Milton
• Garbo by Barry Paris
• Leni Riefenstahl: Five Lives by Angelika Taschen (editor)
• Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappearedby Frank Thompson
• Louise Brooks: A Biography by Barry Paris
• Lulu in Hollywood: Expanded Edition by Louise Brooks
• Mary Pickford Rediscovered by Kevin Brownlow, Robert Cushman
• Oscar Micheaux and His Circle by Pearl Bowser
• The Parade’s Gone By by Kevin Brownlow
• Hollywood, The Pioneers by Kevin Brownlow
• Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild by David Stenn
• Silent Stars by Jeanine Basinger
• Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood by Cari Beauchamp

Hollywood’s Golden Age

• Ava-My Story by Ava Gardner
• Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Pictures by Carol Krenz
• Becoming Mae West by Emily Worth Leider
• Bette Davis Speaks by Boze Hadleigh
• Bette Davis by Barbara Learning
• Bogart: In Search of My Father by Stephen Humphrey Bogart & Gary Provost
• Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow by David Stenn
• Cagney by John McCabe
• Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood by Mick Lasalle
• Conversations With Joan Crawford by Roy Newquist
• Detour by Cheryl Crane
• Marlene Dietrich by Maria Riva
• Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles by David Thomson
• Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke
• The Golden Girls of MGM by Jane Ellen Wayne
• Hurrell’s Hollywood Portraits by Mark A. Vieira
• If This Was Happiness: Biography of Rita Hayworth by Barbara Leaming
• Lana Turner by Jeanine Basinger
• Lauren Bacall: By Myself by Lauren Bacall
• Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn
• Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir by Lorna Luft
• The Million Dollar Mermaid by Esther Williams
• Self-Portrait by Gene Tierney
• Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood by Mark A. Vieira

Modern Day Tinseltown

• David Lean: A Biography by Kevin Brownlow
• Easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
• The Films in My Life by Francois Truffaut
• How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime by Roger Corman & Jim Jerome
• Ingmar Bergman: His Life and Films by Jerry Vermilye
• The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans
• Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch
• Sayles on Sayles by John Sayles
• Scorsese on Scorsese by Martin Scorsese
• Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures by Christiane Kubrick
• Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor’s Diary by Bob Balaban

In the Trenches-Working in the Biz

• Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
• Film Budgeting by Ralph S. Singleton
• Hello, He Lied by Lynda Obst
• Is That a Gun in Your Pocket: Women’s Experience of Power in Hollywood by Rachel Abramowitz
• It’s All Your Fault by Bill Robinson & Ceridwen Morris
• Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriquez
• Shooting To Kill by Christine Vachon
• Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema by John Pierson
• Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made by Kenneth Turan
• Sundancing: Hanging Out and Listening in at America’s Most Important Film Festival by John Anderson
• They Can Kill You but They Can’t Eat You: Lessons from the Front by Dawn Steel
• The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide by Chris Gore

*For more great book selections, I also highly recommend Cinema Books.org