/lit/ - Literature

>>5375885
This is bad advice.
Filmmaking involves special techniques like staging, illumination, editing etc. "movie magic" in practice these aspects turn into direction, composition and rhythm through the patterning of film narration which are designed to conjure, in the end, determined effects on the viewer.
This can be understood either by self investment, learning about theory in books and the processes online/getting involved in a production, or you can have it grouped nicely in a study plan with peers who are equally invested and teachers who know their stuff.
In any case watching a ton of movies without proper context won't help you achieve any serious depth.
Great recs here: >>5375858 >>5376252
I would like to spotlight Tarkovsky's Sculpting Time, Notes on Cinematography by Bresson, the Cahiers compilations of the 50's and 60's and add a couple of essentials, being Pudovkin's Film Technique and Hitchcock/Truffaut.
I always come back to David Bordwell and would particularly recommend his Poetics of Cinema.