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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140246762 ISBN 13: 9780140246766

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

This guide features authoritative criticism cvoering every area of world cinema: classic silents and 30s comedies; documentaries; the avant-garde French or Japanese cinema; the Hollywood mainstream; the latest mega-productions; and B-movie horrors. This fourth edition has been complete revised and now features a new genre index.

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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

"Time Out boasts brainy critics by the bucketload and exemplary coverage of world cinema" Independent on Sunday

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140246762
• ISBN 13: 9780140246766
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 1008
• Editor: Pym John