Time out Film Guide

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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.


Book Description
From one of the world's most essential entertainment magazines, a specially expanded 2000 edition of the celebrated Time Out Film Guide

This annual edition of the Time Out Film Guide has been expanded with six new credit fields (producer, scriptwriter, photographer, editor, designer, and composer) and extended cast lists for over 12,500 films in every genre--from B-rated horror films to Japanese cinema to Hollywood mainstream--over 400 new reviews, and award listings from the 1999 Berlin, Venice, and Cannes festivals and for the Oscars. Delivering honest, incisive, informed, and contentious criticism, with a readers' Top One Hundred poll, stronger international coverage than any other film guide, and extensive indexes covering films by country, genre, subject, director, and actor, this is the ultimate guide for movie lovers of all inclinations.


About the Author
John Pym began reviewing film for Time Out in 1975. He has worked for the British Film Institute and is the author of three books on cinema.


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This annual edition of the Time Out Film Guide, now updated to include over 12,000 films, covers every area of world cinema: classic silents and thirties comedies, documentaries and the avant-garde, French and Japanese cinema, Hollywood mainstream and B-rated horror films. Time Out's extraordinarily strong international coverage includes award listings for the Berlin, Venice, and Cannes festivals as well as the Oscar winners since 1927. Fully cross-referenced with extensive indexes covering films by country, genre, subject, director, and actor, this is the ultimate guide for movie lovers of all inclinations. Combining a wealth of practical information--director, cast, alternative titles, running time, release date--with thirty years of authoritative analyses from 207 Time Out reviewers, this A-to-Z directory delivers honest, incisive, informed, and contentious criticism. The seventh edition includes 700 new reviews from every genre of world cinema and, for the first time, a readers' poll of all-time top-ten films.


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