TLA Film & Video Guide: The Discerning Movie Lover's Guide, 1998-1999

Bleiler, David, ed.

ISBN 10: 031217053X / ISBN 13: 9780312170530

Published by St. Martin's Griffin, 1997

About this Item

xii 732 pages; b/w photos; contents clean; binding solid; 9" tall.

Seller Inventory # 202498

Bibliographic Details

• Title: TLA Film & Video Guide: The Discerning Movie Lover's Guide, 1998-1999
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031217053X
• ISBN 13: 9780312170530
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Condition: vg+
• Book Type: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Performing Arts

About this title

Synopsis

A film guide features reviews of nearly nine thousand films including mainstream, independent, and foreign works, as well as five indexes (star, director, theme, genre, and country of origin), more than 450 photographs, and a complete listing of all major film awards. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Review

Advertised as "the discerning movie lover's guide," this book of capsule reviews from The Theatre of the Living Arts is the most comprehensive film guide that also functions as a catalog. As a result, the critical remarks are gentler than one usually finds in books of this sort, but when push comes to shove, the editors are willing to scorn It's Pat and the Ace Ventura films. Though TLA Film and Video Guide is comprehensive, the emphasis is on foreign and independent films made over the last 30 years. Also included are helpful indices, not just of stars and directors, but of genres, countries of origin, and themes. At the back of the book, the editors list their favorites as well as the films that have won every major critical award in the United States since 1970.