Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2008 (Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever Series)
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Editor: Jim CraddockEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-13
ISBN: 0787689815
Number of pages: 701
Publisher: Gale Group
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Book Review: Lost Book
Summary: 1 Stars
I never recieved this book. I suppose it was lost in the mail. The company was great about it, and made sure that i recieved my money back. I do have an older version of this book and it really is handy to have around if you are a big movie fan.
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Summary of Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2008 (Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever Series)
With 27,000 on-the-money reviews between its covers, the 2008 VIDEOHOUND lives up to its reputation for putting out the movie review guide fans desire. Always popular with 9 Indexes: Videos A-Z; Category Index; Kibbles & Series Index; Awards Index; Cast Index; Director Index; Writer Index; Cinematographer Index; And Composer IndexAs 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
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