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Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers; masterworks of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese; the timeless comedy of the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen; animated classics from Walt Disney and Pixar; the finest foreign films ever made. This 2015 edition covers the modern era, from 1965 to the present, while including all the great older films you cant afford to missand those you canfrom box-office smashes to cult classics to forgotten gems to forgettable bombs, listed alphabetically, and complete with all the essential information you could ask for.

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Date of release, running time, director, stars, MPAA ratings, color or black and white

Concise summary, capsule review, and four-star-to-BOMB rating system

Precise information on films shot in widescreen format

Symbols for DVDs, videos, and laserdiscs

Up-to-date list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos

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LEONARD MALTINS

MOVIE
GUIDE

2015 Edition

The Modern Era

Edited by Leonard Maltin

MANAGING EDITOR

Darwyn Carson

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Luke Sader

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Mike Clark

Rob Edelman

Spencer Green

Pete Hammond

Joe Leydon

Michael Scheinfeld

Bill Warren

VIDEO EDITOR

Casey St. Charnez

CONTRIBUTORS

Jerry Beck

Jessie Maltin

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L EONARD M ALTIN is one of the countrys most respected film historians and critics. He presides over www.leonardmaltin.com. After establishing himself with a series of definitive books on topics ranging from cinematographers to the history of animated cartoons, he became known to an even wider audience on televisions Entertainment Tonight, where he worked for thirty years. He now appears regularly on Reelz Channel. For three years he cohosted the movie review show Hot Ticket, and for six years served as film critic for Playboy magazine. His books include Leonard Maltins Classic Movie Guide, The Great American Broadcast, Leonard Maltins Family Film Guide, Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, The Great Movie Comedians, The Disney Films, The Art of the Cinematographer, Movie Comedy Teams, Selected Short Subjects (The Great Movie Shorts), The Whole Film Sourcebook, Leonard Maltins Movie Encyclopedia, and (as coauthor) The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang. He teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and served for two years as president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. As a member of the National Film Preservation Board, he votes on the twenty-five films named each year to join the National Film Registry. In 2006 he was named by the Librarian of Congress to join the Board of Directors of the National Film Preservation Foundation. For nine years he was the editor and publisher of Film Fan Monthly; his articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Times (of London), Premiere, Smithsonian, TV Guide, Variety, Esquire, Disney Magazine, Film Comment, and Cowboys & Indians. He is also a contributor to Oxford Universitys Dictionary of American Biography. He has been a Guest Curator for the Department of Film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and for nine years was a member of the faculty of the New School for Social Research. He has written a number of television specials, including Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story, and hosted and coproduced the popular DVD series Walt Disney Treasures. He has appeared on many other DVDs, and has produced, written, and hosted a number of cable TV and home-video programs. He serves as one of the hosts of the annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, and has been the recipient of awards from the American Society of Cinematographers, the Telluride Film Festival, George Eastman House, Anthology Film Archives, and San Diegos Comic-Con International. Perhaps the pinnacle of his career was his appearance in a now-classic episode of