Time Out Film Guide, 14th Edition, 2006 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904978487 ISBN 13: 9781904978480

Publisher: Time Out Guides, 2005

Synopsis

The Time Out Film guide, now in its 14th edition, stands out for its incisive, independent-minded reviews. Featuring full-color photos throughout, this edition contains more than 16,000 reviews, all written by knowledgeable critics with a passion for film. Each review contains major technical credits, country of origin, running time, color code, copyright year, and cast list. Icons identify the top 100 films named in both readers' and Cinema Centenary polls. Multiple appendixes classify titles by category and country, while comprehensive indexes — expanded for this edition — identify award-winning films, plus the works of important actors and every director covered in the guide. Equally useful as an authoritative reference and for browsing, this guide contains an updated website directory and listings of the 2005 Oscars and BAFTAs, along with the latest Berlin, Cannes, and Venice winners.

About this title

Review:

A film reference book with a distinctly British flavor, the Time Out Film Guide is a collection of capsule reviews written originally for the London magazine Time Out. Its commentary is more lengthy and detailed than that of most other guides, and while some of its critics summarize too much of their movies' plots, their critical remarks are engaging and provocative. The Time Out Film Guide features contributions from scores of movie critics who sometimes spar with one another: compare the book's two assessments of Blade Runner. The reviewers cover many European and Asian movies you won't find in other movie guides. This is the only film book where you can find remarks on Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, and Forrest Gump alongside reviews of major films not widely released in America, such as Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton's Film, Akira Kurosawa's Madadayo, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman. The Time Out Film Guide also contains a great number of terrific appendices and indices. In fact, it is this book's lists of films by genre, by major film-producing country, by actor, director, and general subject that make it a necessary reference tool for movie lovers.

About the Author:

John Pym took over editorship of the annual Time Out Film Guide in 1994, but he began reviewing films for the weekly magazine in the late 70s.

About this edition

• Publisher: Time Out Guides
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1904978487
• ISBN 13: 9781904978480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1800
• Editor: Pym John