Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen - Softcover

Maltin, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061732346 ISBN 13: 9780061732348

Publisher: Dey Street Books, 2010

Synopsis

What 151 movies have you never seen—but should?

What French film could teach Hollywood how to make a smart, sexy romantic comedy? (page 233)

Where will you find a female-centric Western with a gender-bending protagonist? (page 10)

What film won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and then fell off the radar? (page 261)

What farcical comedy includes such real-life characters as Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger? (page 50)

In what unsung comedy will you find Michael Douglas giving his all-time best performance? (page 130)

What debut film from the director of The Dark Knight creates palpable chills—despite a shoestring budget and a no-name cast? (page 79)

What John Wayne movie was out of circulation for thirty years—and still qualifies as a sleeper? (page 121)

What terrific Heath Ledger movie was released the same month as Brokeback Mountain—and flopped? (page 26)

What clever modern-day film noir was made for just half a million dollars? (page 18)

What captivating film stars one of the seminal artists of the twentieth century? (page 203)

About this title

About the Author:

Leonard Maltin is a respected film critic and historian, perhaps best known for his annual paperback reference Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, which was first published in 1969. He lives with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles and teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

From Booklist:

Maltin, whose Movie Guide is a regularly updated best-seller, and who holds the Guinness record for the world’s shortest movie review (of the 1948 musical Isn’t It Romantic?—“No”), proffers a roster of movies he hopes fans will consider “unfamiliar” because they’ve failed to find the mass audience. While noting the occasional major studio release, he sticks primarily to independent, foreign, and documentary films released during the last 20 years or so, in time for high-speed Internet, streaming video, and all-region DVD players to make them readily available to prospective viewers for the first time. Among his most interesting recommendations are Errol Morris’ unusual documentary Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, a study of four people and the jobs they love; Idiocracy, Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge’s little-seen (and, by its parent studio, even less-loved) futuristic comedy; and Guillermo Del Toro’s supernatural suspenser set during the Spanish civil war, The Devil’s Backbone. Maltin’s still king of the succinct review, making this a handy reference for cineasts who think they’ve seen it all. --Carlos Orellana

About this edition

• Publisher: Dey Street Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061732346
• ISBN 13: 9780061732348
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352