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"the pictures say a thousand words. On-set snaps pulled from the studio archives show Hitchcock on the set of Rope, Bogart playing chess between takes on Casablanca and Marty holding court on The Departed. This, to quote Bogie in one of the studio's deathless classics, "is the stuff that dreams are made of".
--, November 2008
"(f)rom The Jazz Singer, the first `talkie', to Casablanca, Harry Potter and Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, Warner has been at the cutting edge of every cinematic genre. This book, with a foreword by Clint Eastwood, is an illuminating tribute."
--Total Film
"It's a compelling overview, and successfully straddles the divide between academic study and coffee-table picture book...this book gives film-fans exactly what they want. Much as Warner Bros has done since 1923."
--The Daily Express, 3 October 2008
--, November 2008
"(f)rom The Jazz Singer, the first `talkie', to Casablanca, Harry Potter and Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, Warner has been at the cutting edge of every cinematic genre. This book, with a foreword by Clint Eastwood, is an illuminating tribute."
--Total Film
"It's a compelling overview, and successfully straddles the divide between academic study and coffee-table picture book...this book gives film-fans exactly what they want. Much as Warner Bros has done since 1923."
--The Daily Express, 3 October 2008
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"It's a compelling overview, and successfully straddles the divide between academic study and coffee-table picture book...this book gives film-fans exactly what they want. Much as Warner Bros has done since 1923."
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book really needed an editor. We get a chapter covering each decade by one author and then a second author repeats everything that's just been said in a series of year-by-year pull-out sections. It makes for rather dull, and ridiculously repetitive reading. There are a lot of factual errors too when it comes to saying who won oscars, or how many a film won. Then suddenly as we approach the 70s and 80s it's as if the money ran out and everything gets rushed, the annual summaries become give year summaries and... one is left with the impression that one has bought a coffee table book that's all style but little real substance.
0 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I'm not really interested in the old movies of the Warner Bros. studio, but the second half of the book, dealing with movies that I actually like, is very interesting. The book also features some very nice movie stills, posters, behind the scenes photographs, etc. Some of the two-page photos almost makes me want to rip them out and use them as posters.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Sumptuous and beautiful but...
9 Sep 2008
Format:Hardcover
No doubt about it-this is a gorgeous book and a must for classic film fans. However, I'm getting increasingly annoyed at how major errors are slipping through the cracks.. For example, it's listed that Bette Davis WON the Oscar for "All About Eve." Maybe in her own mind she did but not in reality. Also, did you know that "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" only won two Oscars? Not true.Im sure there are more errors of this nature. I'm not certain which author to blame, but I have a feeling it's not Schickel.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
A very pretty puff piece and little more
16 Jan 2009
Format:Hardcover
YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS certainly fulfills its role as a coffee table book: there are a ton of photos and many of them are very interesting. The poster art and lobby stills are gorgeous, and the quality is top-notch. However, if you want to sit down and read it from cover to cover (as I did) you'll be very dissapointed. The book begins as a legitimate "biography" of Warner Brothers, telling the story of the studio's creation. It quickly turns into a hagiography, however, lionizing the greatness of the studio and forgetting to tell any remotely negative stories. Basically, the book feels like The History of Warner Brothers as written by Warner Brothers.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Great photos....but very disorganized
29 Dec 2008
Format:Hardcover
While this coffee-table sized book has some great photos, especially of stars from the forties, and fascinating history of the early movie business, it did not have an editor or an organizing principle. Schickel writes some pages covering a period in movie history, then his co-author writes the story of the SAME PERIOD and the SAME MOVIES with some other details, as well as some of the SAME DETAILS. Then they do it again, and again. What was going on here? Didn't an editor read it all at the end and notice the repetition? Was there some organizing principle that escaped me?
Aside from the early history, there is very little depth in the book and not even very much gossip about either movies or movie stars. Not recommended, even for dyed in the wool fans like me.
Aside from the early history, there is very little depth in the book and not even very much gossip about either movies or movie stars. Not recommended, even for dyed in the wool fans like me.
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