Maltin - Leonard Maltins 2015 Movie Guide: The Modern Era

EASILY THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE BOOK OF ITS KIND ANYWHERE. IT BELONGS NEXT TO EVERY TV... IN EVERY HOME. USA TODAY

A BOOK YOU MUST BUY. Esquire

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.

Distinctive, authoritative and personal. Its prose is so spare, rarely betraying biases or eccentricities, but the book lives so long precisely because every page has Maltins unmistakable presence.NPR

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THE BEST all-purpose video guide.

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THE BEST organized... the most complete.

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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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The DEFINITIVE source of information.

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LEONARDMALTIN 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 ReelzChannel and Turner Classic Movies and hosts a weekly podcast, Maltin on Movies, with his daughter, Jessie. 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 South Park. (Or was it Carmela consulting his Movie Guide on an episode of The Sopranos?) He and his wife, Alice, are the proud parents of Jessica Bennett Maltin, who continues to solve riddles of popular culture and new media for both of them. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter @leonardmaltin. He also holds court at www.leonardmaltin.com.