"Time Out" Film Guide
8th Edition
Published on 30. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
1424 pages
978-0-14-028365-5 (ISBN)
Description
The current edition of this volume contains some 480 new reviews, with enriched coverage of both new and old titles from France, China and Japan, and it has, in addition, been extensively revised and expanded. Key creative personnel - producers, screenwriters, cinematographers,editors, production designers and composers - are now listed, in addition to directors and cast members. This guide regular features - the Centenary Top One Hundred poll of critics and film-makers and the Reader's Top One Hundred poll - have been retained, along with icons in the text highlighting every film in both polls. The appendices of film categories and major film-producing countries, and the actors', directors' and general subject indexes have been updated and expanded, as has the appendix for the chief prize-winner at the Academy Awards and BAFTA ceremonies, plus those from the Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals. finally, "end credits" marks the achievements of more than a hundred notable film people who died between July 1998 and June 1999.
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Series
Edition
8th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
b&w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 65 mm
Weight
1268 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-028365-5 (9780140283655)
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John Pym
"Time Out" Film Guide
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09/2000
9th Edition
Penguin Books Ltd
€38.56
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John Pym
"Time Out" Film Guide
Book
09/1998
7th Edition
Penguin Books Ltd
€37.32
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Content
Week by week, for the past 31 years, London's "Time Out" magazine has provided a vivid, informed record of the capital's cultural events -in music, books, clubs, dance, theatre, film and TV, in high art and on the street. The previews, reviews and interviews from TO's pages have marked and commented on the current and crazes in cinema from 1968 to the millennium, whether in Hollywood, Iran, Hong Kong or Russia. This material - critical notices written on the actual release or re-release of each film - forms the core of the annual "Time Out Film Guide" (now in its eighth edition) together with many reviews of movies from eras not covered in the magazine and a number of significant features films released straight to video.Films A-Z. Appendices: film categories - action/adventure; children's films; comedy; documentaries; epics; fantasy; film noir; gangsters; horror; musicals; period/swashbucklers; science fiction; thrillers; war; westerns; major film-producing countries - Australian films; Canadian films; French films; German films; Italian films; Japanese films. Indexes: actors; directors; general subject. Academy and festival awards: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars); British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA Awards); Cannes Film Festival; Berlin Film Festival; Venice Film Festival.