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The New Biographical Dictionary of Film : Fifth Edition, Completely Updated and Expanded (Edition 5) (Hardcover)
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from pessoanongrata
I can't say I've read every entry, but I give it four stars because I like to know that I can open it up and find intelligent insights into the movie world. His opinions can be grating or dismissive (and hilarious) and he's left out a few contemporary people. Still, I think he covers pre-00s film...
from CliffBurns
Invaluable resource...even though I sometimes find myself in sharp disagreement with Mr. Thompson over some of his very personal views on my favorite (and least favorite) film stars and auteurs. And why is there an entry for Willis O'Brien but nothing for the GREAT Ray Harryhausen? And why no men...
from featherbear
Reference work largely created by a single person, so he's free to be opinionated. Although it can function quite usefully as an auteur guide, it offers another way of navigating film history: by actor, writer, photographer, or producer (yes, it includes Harvey Weinstein pre-revelations). He does...
from nog
As a cinephile who has perhaps seen at least 2000 films predating 1970 alone, I felt like this volume should be in my small collection of books on film. My approach has been to read it as one would a book, starting at page one. It being the work of a single film critic, it is subjective — one man...
from bemislibrary
A modern classic by one of filmdom's most erudite scholars, if you can afford only one tome on the lives of Tinseltown titans, this would be it. *** Any film dictionary worth its celluloid is going to have articles about the Cary Grants and Katharine Hepburns, but what about the industry's second...
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