By David Thomson
David Thomson’s New Biographical Dictionary of movie topped Sight & Sound magazine’s 2010 ballot of foreign critics and writers because the top movie ebook of all time.
Now in its 5th variation, up-to-date, and with greater than one hundred thirty new entries—from Judd Apatow to Lena Horne—the vintage, liked movie publication is healthier than ever.
For thirty-five years, David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film has been “fiendishly seductive” (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone), “the most interesting reference ebook ever written approximately videos” (Graham Fuller, Interview), and “not simply an crucial ebook approximately cinema, yet the most absurdly formidable literary achievements of our time” (Geoff Dyer, The Guardian). For this variation, Thomson has mentioned up to now and in a few case recast the biographies, and has additional new ones (Clive Owen, Scarlett Johansson, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Marion Cotillard, for example). The publication now contains virtually 1,500 entries, a few of them only a smelly paragraph, a few of them a number of thousand phrases lengthy, each a gem.
Here is a brilliant, infrequent publication that encompasses the chaos of artwork, leisure, funds, vulgarity, and nonsense that we name the films. own, opinionated, humorous, bold, provocative, and passionate, it's the one e-book that each filmmaker and movie buff needs to personal, from the guy David Hare known as “the such a lot stimulating and considerate movie critic now writing.”
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And The Dirty Dozen, shows the woeful sacrifices that can come from keeping in work. Kiss Me Deadly is still one of the best, and most surprising, American films of the 1950s, a lucid transformation of pulp Spillane into a vicious, insolent allegory of violence, corruption, and forbidding futures in America. Did overbearing producers and more restrictive censorship push Aldrich into a disciplined and even ironic evocation of brutality? Did the cheerfulness of the fifties allow such glittering darkness to slip through?
The greater freedom on The Dirty Dozen only exposed the lack of self-control in the director, and the ease with which opportunist cynicism filled in the bold outrage of the Eisenhower era in Attack! Yet no one could say Dozen is more realistic—it is nothing but a pretext for violent fantasies and a model for too many later films. Then there was the visual slovenliness that had overtaken the feverish, trapped imagery of the fifties. Melodrama and hysteria were always there in Aldrich, but Baby Jane, Sweet Charlotte, and Sister George are horribly calculated, smirking exploitations of sub-Gothic emotional horror.
New York, in 2004. Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. —5th ed. p. cm. ” eISBN: 978-0-307-59461-7 1. Motion picture actors and actresses—Biography—Dictionaries. 2. Motion pictures—Biography—Dictionaries. I. Title. II. Title: Biographical dictionary of film. III. Title: Dictionary of film. 1 For Kate and Kieran The year before, I had been to the cinema for the first time and seen a film about a horse. I think it was called Black Beauty and was based on a famous book.