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This special Fifth Anniversary Edition of the acclaimed film reference guide is packed with virtually everything movie lovers need to know about the films they simply must see. Stephen Jay Schneider and his team of writers have brought the book up to date by including the most memorable movies released during the past five years. Among their new additions are The Queen, The Lives of Others, Brokeback Mountain, and several more recent movies that have attracted worldwide attention. Covering m
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April 12th, 2011 on 11:06 pm
New Edition Corrects Errors, Has Wonderful Photos, But…,
It’s pleasing to note that most of the editorial errors which detracted from the usefulness of the earlier edition have now been corrected, but the main criticism I made of “1001 Movies”, still holds good. The book is woefully unbalanced. Roughly a quarter of the pages are devoted to pre-1958 movies, while the remaining three-quarters focuses on the last 50 years. This appalling distortion means that most of the cinema’s greatest masters have been excluded. Of course, all the fashionable directors are still represented, and just about all the current pop and cult favorites get a look-in. But those who are looking to expand their movie horizons will find few unfamiliar pictures in “1001 Movies”. To my original review, I appended my own list of 400 essential films. Only 88 of these are represented in “1001 Movies”. Hollywood Classic Movies 1: NEW LIGHT ON MOVIE BESTS
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|April 12th, 2011 on 11:54 pm
Good analysis…AFTER you’ve seen the films!,
This book has wonderful, glossy photos and pages, great fast-fact run-downs of the directors and actors in each movie, and more often than not the reviews for each movie give you a great idea of what makes it a stand-out work, besides name recognition. As a budding film-buff, this is a great way to find more “popular” obscure movies, as well as see a really wide range of movies.
The movies are chronologically ordered in the book, and can also be searched in a helpful index by director, if you’re trying to brush up on a particular director’s corpus.
If it weren’t for ONE THING this book would be a five-star purchase…there are spoilers in many reviews! And not spoilers that are popular knowledge. I just saw “The Ox-Bow” incident, for example, and thank goodness I read the review afterward…the first two sentences tell you the ending of the movie! Yuck.
There were clearly a lot of hands in the pot for this book, since the reviews also vary wildly in analysis and depth, partly for space reasons and partly because each movie has a different focus, so the different specialty reviewers clearly aren’t supposed to all sound the same. Some reviewers are great, giving you lots of helpful historical background and elements to notice in each movie, while others will tell you the ENTIRE MOVIE PLOT, SPOILERS INCLUDED, and then just give you a character summary. That’s next to useless!
You HAVE to wait to read the reviews until after you see the movies. That’s OK, as long as you have fair warning!
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|April 13th, 2011 on 12:42 am
Not Your Typical Coffe Table Book!,
I received this book for Christmas 2009 and love it! It’s a thick bound book that is printed on high quality paper and is compact in size so it doesn’t cover much (coffee table or otherwise) space. You get interesting brief reviews of films throughout the years (1902-2007). The only drawback is there seem to be a lot of rather obscure foreign films listed, which I’ll probably never find and thus, never watch.
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