The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Fifth Edition,

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Fifth Edition, Completely Updated and Expanded

David Thomsonâ€™s New Biographical Dictionary of Film topped Sight & Sound magazineâ€™s 2010 poll of international critics and writers as the best film book of all time.

Now in its fifth edition, updated, and with more than 130 new entriesâ€”from Judd Apatow to Lena Horneâ€”the classic, beloved film book is better than ever.

For thirty-five years, David Thomsonâ€™s Biographical Dictionary of Film has been â€œfiendishly seductiveâ€ (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone), â€œthe finest reference book ever written about moviesâ€ (Graham Fuller, Interview), and â€œnot only an indispensable book about cinema, but one of the most absurdly ambitious literary achievements of our timeâ€ (Geoff Dyer, The Guardian). For this edition, Thomson has brought up to date and in some case recast the biographies, and has added new ones (Clive Owen, Scarlett Johansson, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Marion Cotillard, for example). The book now includes almost 1,500 entries, some of them just a pungent paragraph, some of them several thousand words long, every one a gem.

Here is a great, rare book that encompasses the chaos of art, entertainment, money, vulgarity, and nonsense that we call the movies. Personal, opinionated, funny, daring, provocative, and passionate, it is the one book that every filmmaker and film buff must own, from the man David Hare called â€œthe most stimulating and thoughtful film critic now writing.â€
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780307271747
ReleaseDate 2010-10-26
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307271747

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780307271747
ReleaseDate	2010-10-26
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307271747

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Fifth Edition, Completely Updated and Expanded

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