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As short a time ago as 1994, Leonard Maltin's movie guide could boast of "more than 19,000 entries, with 300 new titles!" But with 500-plus movies jostling into theaters every year, the pocket-size, curl-up-with-it film guide has become a relic. Nowadays, film books are faintly scholarly word-hoards with three OED-style columns, a trade-size format, and a heft that calls for your sitting pants. Videohound's 1,700-page edition sasses the new millennium ("Covering 1,000 years of Movie Making Magic!" the cover says), but its girth heralds the day when all such guides will be swallowed up by some vast digital database. Until then, there's this bright book, with its uncalculated number (a hasty guess would be 26,000) of reviews of movies on video, Laserdisc, DVD, and TV, and its massive cross-listings by star, director, writer, and cinematographer (cinematographer!). Retailing itself as an irreverent tour for movie lovers, the book has surprising range, with an equal appetite for difficult, small, and foreign films and Hollywood fare. Some inconsistencies? Yep, and that's what makes guides like this fun. Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is hailed as a "masterpiece" and rewarded an admiring four bones (out of four), while the superbly Heideggerian Wings of Desire, also a "masterpiece," is equivocated to three and a half. The woof-worthy The Wedding Singer gets the same two and a half bones that they give Wes Anderson's estimably giggly debut, Bottle Rocket. Terry Zwigoff's lovely Crumb is M.I.A., and there's a tendency to eschew analysis for plot summary, but Videohound has encyclopedic breadth and does the undeclared job it sets out to accomplish: entertain, inform, and give readers a giant list of movies to watch next year. --Lyall Bush
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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If you're going to purchase one video guide for your home or library, this is it. Reviewing 24,000 films, GMR 2000 is certainly one of the largest and definitely the most irreverent of the paperback guides published annually (e.g., Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide). The concise but pithy reviews are arranged alphabetically, with each entry noting format availability (tape, DVD), principal cast and crew, MPAA rating, awards, and alternate titles. But it is the inclusion of ten separate indexes, including casts, crews, web sites, and the hysterical "Category Index," that push this work to Number One. For lengthier but fewer reviews, one should turn to Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2000 (Andrews McMeel, 1999) or Video Companion 1998 (Andrews McMeel, 1997). Highly recommended for all academic and public libraries.
-Anthony J. Adam, Prairie View A&M Univ. Lib., TX
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
-Anthony J. Adam, Prairie View A&M Univ. Lib., TX
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This guide has it all.,
By NHgboy (Southern Maine) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever (Paperback)
Movie trivia fans will delight in the depth of information included in this volume. A great set of reviews that is unbiased and devoid of "fluff".
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The Best of the Best,
By OldSarge "mijou1" (Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever (Paperback)
I have a bad habit of seeing someone in a movie and wanting to know where else I may have seen them or just what other movie is that beautiful lady in. This is the book of books. Looking for names, dates, places, and things you could not even begin to think of, it's all here fellow movie buffs. Don't own it, get it. It will be well worth your money. Want to start a DVD collection but would like to be more selective than you were with your VHS collection, this book will help you in getting just what you want, thereby, paying for itself in just a few months. Would like a little better website from these guys, but I will buy the 2003 model.
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Wow! What a book!,
By W.D. Peckenpaugh (Silverton, OR USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever (Paperback)
I could go on and on about how wonderful this guide is: how it lists almost 24,000 movies; how it indexes and cross-references by so many criteria that your head will spin like Linda Blair's in "The Exorcist"; how the 2002 version [again] includes Academy Award nominations, as well as winners; and all the other great features of this book.But I won't, because many of the other reviewers have already gushed over them. Suffice it to say that if you're really into movies, or you would *like* to be really into movies, this would be a very valuable item to own. Literally one hundred years' worth of cinematic details at your fingertips, and presented with clarity and humor. As Roger Ebert might say, "A definite thumbs up!"
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