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The 15th edition of the Time Out Film Guide now weighs in with more than 16,700 reviews, all written by knowledgeable critics who have a real love of film. AMong the book's highlights are extended reviews of 100 keynote films from the history of cinema (from the likes of Citizen Kane to the groundbreaking Man With A Movie Camera), all illustrated with large stills or poster images. There's also an obituary roll-call of 600 recently deceased film personnel and a fully updated directory of film-related websites. Its unrivalled coverage of international cinema, film festivals, Hollywood and Bollywood, blockbusters, forgotten marvels, silent films, industry obituaries, documentaries, and esoterica includes extensive cast and crew listings. Included too are reviews of notable international DVD releases from the past year and detailed website listings, along with the extensive cross-indexes that are the series's trademarks.
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Save your money and check out the website.......2007-01-12
Time Out book guides are impressive but with a website, Time Out Film, readily available, and other sites like IMDB and Box Office Mojo that provide virtually all the information you need to know about movies, books like these are irrelevant, unless you just like the feel of leafing through thin pages to check out how your favorite movies rate.
As Good As It Gets.......2006-09-23
I've bought them all, Ebert's movie guide, the ones by Maltin and Mick Martin, and the Videohound book. This one is the best of these. This is a huge book (and five pounds heavy) of 1800 or so pages and a large footprint. What makes it so good is that the reviews are not only longer than those in other books (except for Roger Ebert's), but they are more sophisticated in their analyses of the movies. They don't use a star system, but by the time you have read the review you know exactly what the author thinks of the film. The cast lists for each movie are reasonably comprehensive.
The special features include 27 appendixes of movies by category, i.e. drama, thrillers, comedies, Italian movies, etc. There is also a cast and director list. The best thing about the cast list is that it lists all the movies that an actor was in by the year of release, and that is not done in the other books. Sometimes I want to know the most recent movies that an actor was in, and this book tells you all you want to know in this regard. On the negative side a lot of minor and not so minor actors don't make the list. A further index lists movies by subject, i.e. if you have a fixation regarding lighthouses you might want to see "The Oyster and the Wind" or "The Phantom Light.
I still buy the other books so I can compare some of the reviews, but this is the one I always pick up first.
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The Time Out Film guide, now in its 14th edition, stands out for its incisive, independent-minded reviews. Featuring full-color photos throughout, this edition contains more than 16,000 reviews, all written by knowledgeable critics with a passion for film. Each review contains major technical credits, country of origin, running time, color code, copyright year, and cast list. Icons identify the top 100 films named in both readers' and Cinema Centenary polls. Multiple appendixes classify titles by category and country, while comprehensive indexes — expanded for this edition — identify award-winning films, plus the works of important actors and every director covered in the guide. Equally useful as an authoritative reference and for browsing, this guide contains an updated website directory and listings of the 2005 Oscars and BAFTAs, along with the latest Berlin, Cannes, and Venice winners.
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The 14th edition of the quirky British film guide.......2006-03-21
I have about five or six film and video guides I consistently use for reference, and the Time Out Film Guide is certainly one of the better ones and among the most interesting. I would not recommend it for someone just looking for one all-purpose guide because it's fairly quirky. It spotlights fairly obscure actors or films (and not always good ones either--they feel obligated to highlight interesting weak films as well as strong ones), and its biases can take some getting used to, especially if you're not from the UK. (The editors' marked prejudices and beliefs about Americans are often hilarious, and only sometimes intentionally.) But the reviews are written with intelligence and care, and are never bland, and the series of lists at the back of the book (filmographies for various important directors and actors, and lists of films grouped around key themes) are very handy.
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Over 1,000 films are listed in this visually arresting, full-color celebration of the silver screen. Film personalities, including actors, directors, cinematographers, and animators, write about their favorite films from a variety of angles. Martin Scorsese, Nicole Kidman, and Nick Hornby are among those who weigh in. Writers are matched to suitable (or sometimes surprising) themes and genres within the wider subject of how films can alter the course of a life. Movie stills and posters, trivia, and top-ten lists make this a book that can be dipped into or read from cover to cover. Great screen moments — endings, beginnings, kisses, death scenes — are given special spreads. The eclectic approach speaks to fans of big Hollywood blockbusters and factoid-reciting film geeks alike. Time Out guides have become well-known for their hip, savvy travel coverage, and this wider-ranging pop cultural coverage follows in this tradition.
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The third book in the acclaimed series of critical studies of Bob Dylan by Paul Williams once again turns the microscope on the continuing evolution of rock s master singer and songwriter. After focusing on the start and roots of the Never Ending Tour, Williams surveys Dylan s work in 1990, and the 1997 Time Out Of Mind and 2001 Love & Theft albums. There s also an essay on a fine example of a Never Ending Tour show from 1998. Paul Williams writing about Bob Dylan has been praised by such distinguished Dylan fans as Sam Shepard, Jerry Garcia, and Allen Ginsberg. One member of Dylan s band says he found reading Williams books on Dylan helpful when he first joined the band and needed to become more familiar with his new boss huge output of work.
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Dylan for trainspotters........2006-05-26
If this is your thing :
"I can't say for certain,but I believe 42 different songs in three consecutive shows is a record for Dylan up until 1987. The closest contender seems to be 29 different songs in three consecutive shows at the volatile spring 1976 Rolling Thunder shows( and 39 different songs in five consecutive shows that spring)."
then go for it .There are many many worse examples.
However if you want a good book about music , try "Tricksta" by Nik Cohn.
The real stuff...again.......2004-11-23
Paul Williams demonstrated years ago that there is at least one well-known Dylan commentator who is wholly focussed on what the artist does, rather than on theories of his alleged role as mystic, guru or cultural revolutionary. In other words, he understands what Dylan's art form actually is: the writing and performing of classic songs. So an incidental pleasure in reading this book alongside Dylan's recently-released memoirs, `Chronicles' volume 1, is the confirmation that Williams was always closer to understanding what Dylan was up to than the many pretentious, more arty Dylanologists.
This third volume of an already-superb series maintains that focus and meets the high standards set by its two predecessors. Here he takes up the pen again as if he finished the last volume only yesterday, instead of a decade ago. The continuity he achieves is a considerable achievement, and all the more so since the period covered [1986-1990] was almost certainly Dylan's most fallow. These are the days when Bob was struggling - for inspiration, for relevance and for audience. Williams captures that struggle admirably and, as always, he does not shirk the task. When something was awful he says so bluntly. Some of Dylan's low-ebb 1987 shows, for example, are described, as `a painful listening experience'. This type of candour is unusual among his fellow Dylan scribes, always excepting Michael Gray. But when the opposite assessment is made, it means we can have confidence that the enthusiasm is real and follows real assessment of the work. Listening again to the recordings, it is quickly clear that Williams' ratings are a far more reliable pointer to the quality of Dylan's performances than all those routine whoops and shouts that some find so irritating at many concerts.
Ultimately that is the greatest attribute of all Paul Williams writings on Bob Dylan. He inevitably takes the reader back to the recordings - to the music and its performance. And given his mastery over four decades as a `performing artist' isn't that what Bob Dylan is all about?
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"There is no group more mythical than Faust" Julian Cope "When the Germans do something, they don't fuck around" Jean-Hervé Péron From the publisher: September 2006 sees the release of this book about Faust, the legendary krautrock group. Fully illustrated, it contains reviews all of the group's records from the period 1970-75 as well as recounting the rise of krautrock and its relation to the social upheavals of the '60s. There is also a discography, bibliographies, live reviews and the text of the group's 1973 manifesto as well as essays on music and time and the group's relation to the work of Frank Zappa. From the dustjacket: In 1970 Polydor Records funded an unusual experiment. They gave some unknown German musicians a retreat in the countryside near Hamburg, equipped it with a studio and their best engineer, then left them free to do as they liked. This is the story of Faust and the music they made between 1970 and 1975, music which continues to inspire and confound listeners to this day. About the author: Andy Wilson has been running the Faust web site, the Faust-Pages (http://www.faust-pages.com) for over a decade now, during which time he has collected information about the band, interviewed band members and generally researched the group's history. Now he has collected that information into a book. He lives in Hackney, London, and has been listening to Faust for the best part of a lifetime. Book Contents: Das Lied Eines Matrosen; Germany Calling; On Currywurst; Clear / Faust ; So Far ; Tony Conrad: Outside The Dream Syndicate; The Faust Tapes; Faust IV; Munich; Elsewhere; On Returning; Faust Live; Faust Manifesto; Fruit Flies Like a Banana; Das also war des Pudels Kern; Discography; Online; Guide to Illustrations; Faust Bibliography; General Bibliography
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- Snotty, Snobby, What's the Difference?
- Sophisticated taste, stylish writing on movies that matter
- Do the British really appreciate spoilers?
- Both useful & entertaining in its own right
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Time Out Film Guide, 13th Edition
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A film reference book with a distinctly British flavor, the Time Out Film Guide is a collection of capsule reviews written originally for the London magazine Time Out. Its commentary is more lengthy and detailed than that of most other guides, and while some of its critics summarize too much of their movies' plots, their critical remarks are engaging and provocative. The Time Out Film Guide features contributions from scores of movie critics who sometimes spar with one another: compare the book's two assessments of Blade Runner. The reviewers cover many European and Asian movies you won't find in other movie guides. This is the only film book where you can find remarks on Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, and Forrest Gump alongside reviews of major films not widely released in America, such as Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton's Film, Akira Kurosawa's Madadayo, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman. The Time Out Film Guide also contains a great number of terrific appendices and indices. In fact, it is this book's lists of films by genre, by major film-producing country, by actor, director, and general subject that make it a necessary reference tool for movie lovers.
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Written by 250 of the best critics, the Time Out Film Guide is a collection of nearly 16,000 engaging and provocative capsule reviews of films across the spectrum of cinema history, from Russian silent movies to American comedies, classic documentaries to Japanese anime, B-movies to Hollywood blockbusters. Each review contains major technical credits, country of origin, running time, color code, copyright year, and cast list. Icons identify the top 100 films named in both readers' and Cinema Centenary polls. Twenty-one appendices classify titles by category and country, while comprehensive indices identify award-winning films, plus the works of important actors and every director covered in the guide. Another index allows readers to search by subject, covering everything from buddy movies to film noir to teen flicks. New features in this edition include color tabs throughout for easy navigation; more color illustrations; 50 filmmaker interviews focusing on current features; and 100 new "cinefile" pages featuring full-color images and more in-depth reviews of classic, oddball, or underrated films.
Customer Reviews:
Snotty, Snobby, What's the Difference?.......2005-11-20
This book was purchased to replace an older (different) movie review guide. It was highly recommended, and that was the reason I purchased it. Over time, there has been occasion to look up movies for background, obscure actors, etc. This book is a poor guide for movies. Many of the movies I looked up (Waterhole # 3 Comes to mind) was not even listed. The actor (James Colburn - star of Waterhole # 3) was not listed either. One of my favorite movies was "trashed" (The Sound of Music). This book reeks of elitism. This appears to make judgements on the reader based on a belittlement of their likes and dislikes. If I had a bird, I wouldn't tear this apart to line the bottom of the cage. Other than that, it has a style, just not MY style.
Sophisticated taste, stylish writing on movies that matter.......2005-10-03
Well-established and reliable publication on world movies with a London outlook -- nice!
Do the British really appreciate spoilers?.......2005-08-25
I just got this edition from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. For starters, I've been looking up favorite movies that I know extremely well. It seems like every 3rd or 4th review in this guide flat-out gives away either the film's ending or a crucial plot twist! Very strange, and completely bogus IMO. It leaves me confused and disgruntled.
I thought I understood the English national character pretty well, but what's up with these London reviewers? Do their British readers really tolerate, much less appreciate, having the thrill of mystery and discovery just stolen away?
As we all know, here in the US it's taboo to ruin the narrative surprise in any kind of review, unless one explicitly puts a "warning-- spoilers below!" comment in first. Obviously, I support this taboo, and for whatever reason, the Time Out film guide editors have decided to flout it. Their bizarre lack of sympathy for the reader's feelings is simply inappropriate IMO for a film guide, so I rate this work only 2 stars.
Both useful & entertaining in its own right.......2004-10-24
Of the various phonebook-sized film-review databases this is the one I prefer. The plusses are:
1) the reviews are brief but usually actually say something useful & entertaining--for single-paragraph essays they pack a punch. There's a healthy leavening of wit (one reviewer refers to _The Good Earth_ as "The Lychees of Wrath"; another remarks that _Labyrinth_ is notably for "David Bowie's saddest ever haircut (no mean achievement)") but also some serious commentary, & the summaries are almost always accurate & don't reveal too much of the plot. Some of the pans are hilarious (I particularly appreciated the skilful demolition job on _Sammy and Rosie Get Laid_--I've seen it & everything they say is true)
2) there are thoughtful one-page feature essays about various films, some of them reappraisals of famous films but others appreciations of undeservedly little-known ones.
3) the credits are relatively full, listing (among other things) all major cast members & even the composer of the score.
4) while its coverage is inevitably incomplete (especially of films before the 1970s) for the most part it's pretty thorough, with a fair bit of space devoted to foreign films & (inevitably) a lot of reviews of British films (though the coverage of these is by no means boosterish--there's no-one harder on British films than British film critics!).
There are a few flaws, admittedly. The worst is that while the index of directors is pretty complete, the index of actors is woefully inadequate, as it only covers a very limited range of (star) actors. If you want to track down, say, films with Thelma Ritter or Esther Williams or William Bendix, you'll need a biographically-organized referencebook like Katz or Thomson. There are inevitable inconsistencies resulting from the book's being compiled by countless critics over many years: films may be referred to positively in one spot while panned in another, & sometimes it's pretty obvious the entry hasn't been updated since the film was reviewed upon its first release. Still, the inconsistencies are actually surprisingly rare--it's generally fairly reliable. Some of the omissions are a bit arbitrary--on a recent flipthrough I noted the absence of _My Neighbor Totoro_, _Pride of the Yankees_, a raft of Shirley Temple films, any version of _Treasure Island_ prior to the 1970s, &c.--but, well, that's always going to happen with omnibus film guides.
Simply the best film guide available!.......2004-04-16
When it comes to film guides, Time Out can't be beat. It is by far the most comprehensive guide on the shelves and has been handsomely repackaged to include "cinefiles" on landmark movies down through the years. It covers not only anglo but many foreign language films as well. While other guides tend to focus on American, Canadian and British productions, Time Out will help you find a broad range of Russian, Indian, French, German, Italian, and Japanese films as well. You will even find such esoteric titles as Freedom (Laisve) by Sarunas Bartas. Imagine that! It breaks the films down in the appendices by categories, making it easier to track down movies whose titles have eluded you. In addition, it has extensive actors and directors indices to further narrow your search. It not only includes past Oscar winners, but those of the British Academy, Cannes, Berlin and Venice as well. The short reviews are well written with an extensive list of contributors. There is even a guide to help you build the ultimate DVD collection. Enjoy!
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The Quiet Man
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The bible to London's best shops and services is full of bright ideas and boasts reviews of over 2,000 of the capital's top shops. From the department stores on Oxford Street to the small boutiques in Soho to antiquarian bookstores on Charing Cross Road, Time Out London Shopping lists and reviews the best of London's vast range of shops and services. Shops are divided in types - fashion, health and beauty, home, babies and children, leisure (books, music, and sports), food and drink, and one-stop (department stores, markets, and malls). Included are useful features such as "how to buy at auction." Indexed by subject, area, and shop name, this guide helps shoppers find almost anything they need.
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A must-have book if you are living in London.......2005-08-19
I lived in London for three months in the summer of 2001, and I needed to find some of the basics while I was there. I knew where the grocery stores, drugstores and bookstore all were, but I didn't know of a good place to get a haircut.
Time Out was my weekly bible for plays, concerts and movies, and I saw the Time Out London Shopping book in the newsstand store near my flat where I got my daily newspaper. Thumbed through it and bought it.
One of the most memorable experiences I ended up having in London was going to Geo. F. Trumper on Curzon Street in Mayfair, near the Green Park Tube station. It's over 125 years old and still has the character of a barbershop from the era. Glass cases in the front of the shop with their signature men's grooming needs, wood and brass everywhere, and barbers dressed in white button-down shirts, ties and vests.
Price-wise, at 24 pounds (or was it 26 pounds?) for a men's haircut, it was no higher than Dellaria in Boston or Piaf in Washington, D.C., adjusted for the exchange rate, of course. What really set it apart from anywhere in the States was the decor and the level of professionalism. We're talking about a barbershop that offers lessons in how to achieve the perfect shave! I had to take pictures of the barbershop. It's that memorable!
If you want to step back in time and feel quintessentially British (and you are male, since they are a gentleman's barbershop), go to Geo. F. Trumper.
I also found a great chocolate shop and a great cheese shop through the Time Out London Shopping guide -- Charbonnel et Walker on Old Bond Street in the Royal Arcade (don't let the French in the name fool you... it's a British chocolatier) and Paxton & Whitfield on Jermyn Street in Mayfair for cheese.
These are just three of the finds I found in London thanks to the Time Out London Shopping guide. If you need to find something in London while staying there or living there, this is as indispensible as the Time Out weekly guide to everything entertainment.
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