The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition

For almost thirty years, David Thomsonâ€™s Biographical Dictionary of Film has been not merely â€œthe finest reference book ever written about moviesâ€ (Graham Fuller, Interview), not merely the â€œdesert island bookâ€ of art critic David Sylvester, not merely â€œa great, crazy masterpieceâ€ (Geoff Dyer, The Guardian), but also â€œfiendishly seductiveâ€ (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone).

This new edition updates the older entries and adds 30 new ones: Darren Aronofsky, Emmanuelle Beart, Jerry Bruckheimer, Larry Clark, Jennifer Connelly, Chris Cooper, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuaron, Richard Curtis, Sir Richard Eyre, Sir Michael Gambon, Christopher Guest, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Spike Jonze, Wong Kar-Wai, Laura Linney, Tobey Maguire, Michael Moore, Samantha Morton, Mike Myers, Christopher Nolan, Dennis Price, Adam Sandler, Kevin Smith, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlize Theron, Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski, Lew Wasserman, Naomi Watts, and Ray Winstone.

In all, the book includes more than 1300 entries, some of them just a pungent paragraph, some of them several thousand words long. In addition to the new â€œmusts,â€ Thomson has added key figures from film historyâ€“lively anatomies of Graham Greene, Eddie Cantor, Pauline Kael, Abbott and Costello, NoÃ«l Coward, Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Gish, Rin Tin Tin, and more.

Here is a great, rare book, one 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. Time Out named it one of the ten best books of the 1990s. Gavin Lambert recognized it as â€œa work of imagination in its own right.â€ Now better than everâ€“a masterwork by the man playwright David Hare called â€œthe most stimulating and thoughtful film critic now writing.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-05-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-05-06
Format	Kindle eBook

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition

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