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Halliwell's Film and Video Guide (Paperback)

by Leslie Halliwell (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 944 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Entertainment; New Ed edition (4 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006531652
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006531654
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,732,943 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This monster is quite simply the king of movie guides. Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2000 contains more than 23,000 entries, creating a competition for space that allows most films a single-sentence review. Which is not to say that the book is in any way less than thorough--the terse sentences manage to be enormously telling. (How I Got into College is quietly damned with the description, "Mildly amusing teenage comedy"; Rabbit Test is scorched with "Dreary and tasteless film, the nadir of comedy"; and Strictly Ballroom is lauded with "Exuberant, charming, witty romance acted and directed with style and verve.") As its tendency toward clipped writing may suggest, Halliwell's is no stocking filler--movies must earn each star awarded. Four stars go only to groundbreaking masterpieces like Rashomon, and one can flip for pages without seeing a three-star movie. Most of the two-star films are pretty good, just not quite up to this guide's refreshingly exacting standards. For those who want only the best, Halliwell's handily provides lists of three- and four-star films, sorted by both title and year, in the back. One could get an excellent film education simply by working through both lists: the four-star category includes movies as diverse as Pelle the Conqueror, Alien and Duck Soup. Halliwell's pulls no punches with either criticism or praise. It's a must-have for movie lovers. --Ali Davis, Amazon.com

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‘The indispensable reference guide for the avid moviegoer’s bookshelf’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The new halliwells, 25 Oct 2002
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The new halliwells - a comprehensive guide to nearly every film ever. for each film, it has information on it, cast and crew members, a rating (0 to 4 stars) and a short description of the summary. For lots of films, a quote from a review is added. A very useful guide.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Flawed but indispensable, 11 Mar 2002
Halliwell's is widely renowned as the King of Film Guides. The reputation is deserved insofar as it is extremely comprehensive and generally very accurate, with a user-friendly format.

The reviews of individual films can leave something to be desired, however. The rating system of 0-4 stars is an excellent idea, but is, for example, Autobus (Aux Yeux du Monde), a fairly average drama, really worthy of a higher rating than François Truffaut's genre-defining Les Quatre Cents Coups? The appraisal of Bill Forsyth's wonderful Gregory's Girl claims the film to be "handicapped by impenetrable accents", a statement which would be offensive to the people of Scotland if it weren't so patently incorrect. And the quotes selected from other sources to accompany reviews often disagree with the reviews themselves: for instance, Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice is awarded a creditable three stars, but accompanied by the quote from Time Out, "a prime contender for the title of Most Overrated Film of All Time".

In short, the opinions voiced in Halliwell's are often questionable and on occasion self-contradictory, but the guide is nevertheless essential, if only for its thoroughness.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The most intelligent film guide, 27 Sep 2002
The reviews here have missed the point. Yes Halliweell is a very fussy and often mistifying guide but it is the opinion of a few as opposed to many. It is one of the few guides to give top rating's to films such as Star Wars, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Fargo and American Beauty to name a few. A good feature of Halliwell's is to offer opinions from other guides or critics below his own reviews. Where he gives a film four out of four there are usually other contradictory reviews below and vice versa where hew does not like a film. This gives one the chance to develop their own opinion and to find out that not every living and dead critic thinks or thought that (for example) Casablanca is the best film of all time. It also rates documentaries and early comedy shorts which are ignored by other guides. Having said this it is best to have another guide as well as Halliwell as no one is ever going to agree on all films. In particular the films that Halliwell gives four stars to from the 1970's are more thoughtful than most and he is not a snob as he rates 1984's This is Spinal Tap (correctly) as a Masterpiece.
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5.0 out of 5 stars WELL WORTH BUYING
it might seem peverse but id give this book five stars, even though i disagree with so many of the reviews,my favorite movie of all time "the changeling " gets no stars and is... Read more
Published on 15 Aug 2005 by tjcoaches

2.0 out of 5 stars A bit pants
All the information is there but the reviews are awful. Almost every review displays a I-could-do-better-attitude and shows ignorance of the film making process. Read more
Published on 27 April 2002 by Mr. A. P. Venables

3.0 out of 5 stars average at best
as most movie books go, this one isn't so bad. it is very comprehensive and gives plenty of info on each film it reviews. Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2002

1.0 out of 5 stars Trash
This magazine is a travesty. There is a distinct bias against european films and formally experiment cinema in general. Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars full of everything you need to know about any film you want
this is the latest addition in a line of brilliant film reference books. It has everything you need to know about any film you want to know about *****
Published on 7 Jul 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars An informed one-stop film reference guide for all.
From film-noir of the 30's/40's to the blockbusters of recent years, Halliwells Guide can be relied upon to give a brief, impartial view. Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars The best in the business, but the print size is too small.
There is no better guide. Leslie Halliwell showed us all that only a few words, if well chosen, can convey everything we need to know. John Walker maintains the same standard. Read more
Published on 5 Nov 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent complete review of twentieth century film.
This edition comes in a large but easy to handle volume. John walker who took over from Halliwell does an excellent job. Read more
Published on 17 Aug 1999

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