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Author: Mick Martin
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1598
ISBN-13: 9780345407931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReviews thousands of movies and rates each film according to a five-star rating system, and features cross-indexing by title, director, and cast.
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1650
ISBN-13: 9780452279148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith more than 300 new entries, 1,000 more videocassette and laser-disc listings, and an enlarged index of leading performers and directors, the 1998 edition of this perennial bestseller continues to be a "must" for every movie buff's bookshelf. "Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide" has long been acclaimed because of its factual authority and sheer depth of information.
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 2655
ISBN-13: 1101604638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW More than 16,000 capsule movie reviews, with more than 300 new entries NEW More than 13,000 DVD and 13,000 video listings NEW Up-to-date list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos NEW Completely updated index of leading performers MORE Official motion picture code ratings from G to NC-17 MORE Old and new theatrical and video releases rated **** to BOMB MORE Exact running times—an invaluable guide for recording and for discovering which movies have been edited MORE Reviews of little-known sleepers, foreign films, rarities, and classics AND Leonard's personal list of fifty notable debut features Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers; masterworks of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese; the timeless comedy of the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton; animated classics from Walt Disney and Pixar; the finest foreign films ever made. This 2013 edition covers the modern era, from 1965 to the present, while including all the great older films you can’t afford to miss—and those you can—from box-office smashes to cult classics to forgotten gems to forgettable bombs, listed alphabetically, and complete with all the essential information you could ask for. • Date of release, running time, director, stars, MPAA ratings, color or black and white • Concise summary, capsule review, and four-star-to-BOMB rating system • Precise information on films shot in widescreen format • Symbols for DVD s, videos, and laserdiscs • Completely updated index of leading actors • Up-to-date list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos
Author: Daniel Herbert
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2014-01-24
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0520958020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVideoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic tapes and plastic discs, movie culture flowed out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video stores served as a crucial embodiment of movie culture’s historical move toward increased flexibility, adaptability, and customization. In addition to charting the historical rise and fall of the rental industry, Herbert explores the architectural design of video stores, the social dynamics of retail encounters, the video distribution industry, the proliferation of video recommendation guides, and the often surprising persistence of the video store as an adaptable social space of consumer culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, cultural geography, and archival research, Videoland provides a wide-ranging exploration of the pivotal role video stores played in the history of motion pictures, and is a must-read for students and scholars of media history.
Author: Mick Martin
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 1602
ISBN-13: 9780345420992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents brief reviews of more than nineteen thousand films and other videos that are available at rental stores and through mail order, arranged alphabetically by title; also includes actor and director indexes.
Author: Sidney Lumet
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-09-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0307763668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy does a director choose a particular script? What must they do in order to keep actors fresh and truthful through take after take of a single scene? How do you stage a shootout—involving more than one hundred extras and three colliding taxis—in the heart of New York’s diamond district? What does it take to keep the studio honchos happy? From the first rehearsal to the final screening, Making Movies is a master’s take, delivered with clarity, candor, and a wealth of anecdote. For in this book, Sidney Lumet, one of our most consistently acclaimed directors, gives us both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on forty years of experience on movies that range from Long Day’s Journey into Night to Network and The Verdict—and with such stars as Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino—Lumet explains how painstaking labor and inspired split-second decisions can result in two hours of screen magic.
Author: Thomas Condon
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781884305856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains a popular system of psychology that groups people into nine personality types and lists hundreds of film characters that fall into these groups.
Author: Mick Martin
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1604
ISBN-13: 9780345420961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlways entertaining, witty, and packed with information, the "Video Movie Guide" has been a perennial bestseller for 17 years. Includes a special section on titles available on DVD.
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 2004-08
Total Pages: 1637
ISBN-13: 9780451212658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers readers a comprehensive reference to the world of film, including thousands of alphabetically-arranged movie title entries containing plot summaries, along with information on performers, ratings, and running times.
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2003-09-30
Total Pages: 1668
ISBN-13: 9780452284784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe leading authority on American film is back with the latest edition of his "indispensable" (Los Angeles Times) and bestselling movie and video guide. Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2004 is the best, biggest, and most up-to-date of its kind. The comprehensive 2004 guide includes: € Capsule reviews of more than 18,000 films, including more than 300 new entries € More than 13,000 listings of videocassettes and 8,000 DVD listings € Write-ups on every film series € A revised index of leading actors and actresses € Leonard Maltin's exclusive list of Fifty Films That Got Away: Movies You Really Ought to See ...and much, much more.
