"Time Out" Film Guide ("Time Out" Guides) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014017513X ISBN 13: 9780140175134

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

This is an alphabetical critical guide to films, based on "Time Out" reviews over the last 15 years. The book includes films released in 1992/93, filed alongside movies from 1978 onwards.

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Review

The Time Out Film Guide is a collection of capsule reviews written originally for the Time Out magazine. Its commentary is more lengthy and detailed than that of most other guides and while some of its critics summarise 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 non-Hollywood films 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 listing of films by genre, major film-producing country, actor, director, and general subject that make it a necessary reference tool for movie lovers. --Jake Bond

Review

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Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 014017513X
• ISBN 13: 9780140175134
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 960
• Editor: Milne Tom