Reddit reviews Something Like An Autobiography

In the Blink of an Eye (Walter Murch)

Shot by Shot (Steven D. Katz)

Making Movies (Sidney Lumet)

Hitchcock/Truffaut (Francois Truffaut)

Something Like An Autobiography (Akira Kurosawa)

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Those are all must reads, in my opinion. But this is just off the top of my head. I'm not next to my bookshelf at the moment, so this is the best I can do right now! =)

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EDIT: Back with round two.

Seductive Cinema (James Card)

Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of the Other Side of the Wind (Josh Carp)

A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (Donald Richie)

All the Emperor's Men: Kurosawa's Pearl Harbor (Hiroshi Tasogawa)

Making Documentary Films and Videos (Barry Hampe)

The Haunted Screen (Lotte Eisner)

It Is Wonderful To Create: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1042872/

You can find it in pieces on many of the Criterion Collection's Kurosawa films.

There is also Kurosawa's own Something Like an Autobiography, which is very good: http://www.amazon.com/Something-Like-Autobiography-Akira-Kurosawa/dp/0394714393/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333084613&sr=8-1

Something Like An Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa. In a nutshell live an interesting life that you can translate into your films.

http://amzn.com/0394714393

Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa

It may be a little more historical than what you wanted, but its a good read. He wrote and directed films under both Japanese Imperial and Occupation Censorship, and discusses dealing with two very different value systems regarding movies. He also talks a little about each film he made and the process that went on in the background, and the last section is a set of tips/opinions he had on film production.

Kurosawa's book (http://www.amazon.com/Something-Like-Autobiography-Akira-Kurosawa/dp/0394714393) is pretty good. Scorsese by Ebert (http://www.amazon.com/Scorsese-Ebert-Roger/dp/0226182037) is pretty damn good.

Eu li recentemente as autobiografias do Bergman e do Kurosawa, recomendo para os cinéfilos. A do Bergman não segue uma narrativa linear e fala muito sobre o trabalho dele no Teatro, a experiência do trabalho dele com os atores e o resto da equipe, assim como uma vida turbulenta com seus familiares. A do Kurosawa eu achei mais relevante para o cinema, começa desde os tempos da infância dele e como ele desenvolveu a paixão por filmes, uma lista de clássicos que ele assistiu quando jovem, suas grandes influências e mentores, como ele começou a trabalhar na indústria e a partir do meio do livro ele fala muito de seus filmes (um por capítulo) e com detalhes técnicos de produção, processo de criação e relacionamento dele com a equipe. Dois grandes grandes diretores, com filmografias espetaculares.

http://editora.cosacnaify.com.br/ObraSinopse/300/Lanterna-mágica-.aspx

http://www.amazon.com/Something-Like-Autobiography-Akira-Kurosawa/dp/0394714393