1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
by Ginette Vincendeau and Kim Newman and Kyung Hyun Kim and Jonathan Rosenbaum and Linda Badley and Jean-Michel Frodon and Tom Gunning and Aniko Imre and Steven Jay Schneider and Geoff Andrew and Kathryn Bergeron and Ernest Hardy and Frank Lafond and Adrian Martin and Devin Orgeron and Marsha Orgeron and Richard Pena and Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton and Adisakdi Tantimedh and Michael Tapper and Sam Umland and Matt Venne and Andy Willis and Josephine Woll and Garrett Chaffin-Quiway and Roumiana Deltcheva and Nezih Erdoğan and Chris Fujiwara
Updated with brand-new entries to describe the most recent major motion pictures, this critically-acclaimed volume spans more than a century of moviemaking, concisely describing 1001 of the best films from around the world. New in this edition are entries to describe such film hits as "Lord of the Rings", "Mystic River", "Fahrenheit 9/11", and "Million Dollar Baby". But in fact, this volume's team of critics goes back to 1902, describing such films as "The Great Train Robbery", and progressing chronologically across the decades to cover the best cinematic dramas, comedies, westerns, musicals, suspense and horror films, gangster classics, "films noirs", sci-fi epics, documentaries, and adaptations of novels and stage plays made by filmmakers around the world. Movie fans will find descriptions of great musicals like "Singing in the Rain", westerns like "High Noon", science-fiction classics like "Star Wars", dramas like "Chinatown" and "Schindler's List", and international classics from master directors who include Fellini, Antonioni, Resnais, Truffaut, Eisenstein, Kurosawa, and many others. Each entry includes a full list of cast and credits, awards won by the film, an essay summarizing the story line and screen-history, and still shots of the film's memorable scenes. At the back of the book, both an alphabetical index and a genre index will help readers find any film they're looking for. The book is illustrated with hundreds of movie still shots in color and black and white.
Release Date:
September 30, 2005
