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The fourth edition of this reference book for film-goers, has been completely revised and brought up to date with more than 200 new entries - bringing the total to 1000. Each of the entries is a critical essay profiling a director, actor, screenwriter or other luminary of the cinematic world.
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9780316859059 | 4th edition (Gardners Books, October 30, 2003), cover price $43.60 | About this edition: The fourth edition of this reference book for film-goers, has been completely revised and brought up to date with more than 200 new entries - bringing the total to 1000.
9780375411281 | 4th edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2002), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An updated edition of the film reference provides more than 1,300 entries on leading international actors and actresses, directors, and producers, along with critical essays, profiles, and film analyses.
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9780375711848 | 5th edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 3, 2013), cover price $29.95
9780375709401 | Exp upd edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An updated edition of the film reference provides more than 1,300 entries on leading international actors and actresses, directors, and producers, along with critical essays, profiles, and film analyses.
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9780307594617 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 26, 2010, cover price $40.00
9780307488688 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 18, 2008, cover price $22.95
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9781435291164 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: In the eight years since the third edition of this reference was published, careers have waxed and waned, reputations been made and lost, great movies produced, trends set and scorned.
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9780374191894 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 16, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence in the war years, and their long, slow decline to a form that is often richly entertaining but no longer lays claim to our lives the way it once did.
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Product Description: The renowned film critic takes on the industry's most coveted award.
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9781554079261 | Firefly Books Ltd, September 1, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The renowned film critic takes on the industry's most coveted award.
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9780465003396 | Basic Books, November 24, 2009, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months.
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9780307271747 | 5 exp upd edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 26, 2010), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: David Thomson’s New Biographical Dictionary of Film topped Sight & Sound magazine’s 2010 poll of international critics and writers as the best film book of all time.
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“Cooper was heroic, of course, in his own mind as much as in his scripts. He was manly, tall, ruggedly handsome. He was a man for a fight.” On screen he was the ultimate all-American hero: lean, laconic, and masculine, a lone sheriff battling his enemies in High Noon, or a tough individualist in The Fountainhead. Off-screen he bedded a host of leading ladies and carefully honed his image, making hundreds of movies and winning two Oscars in the process. The acclaimed film writer David Thomson explores the career and the contradictions of “Coop,” the star who lived the dream in the golden age of Hollywood.
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9780865479326 | 1 edition (Faber & Faber, January 5, 2010), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: “Cooper was heroic, of course, in his own mind as much as in his scripts.
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9781429999908 | Faber & Faber, June 8, 2010, cover price $9.99
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9788439722434 | Italian edition edition (Grijalbo Mondadori, June 1, 2010), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Los personajes de Casablanca, Chinatown, El Padrino, El largo adiós, Lolita, El cartero siempre llama dos veces o Taxi driver son solo algunos de casi un centenar de nombres que pueblan la mente del héroe secreto de esta original novela.
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“Look, I’m hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I don’t give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys will give you. You may not like what I say, but you better believe it.” He became a legend as “Bogie,” the world-weary, wisecracking outsider, but in reality Humphrey Bogart was plagued by doubts and demons. He was born upper-class yet made his name playing mavericks, drank with the Rat Pack, and met four wives on set—including his great love, Lauren Bacall—yet always mistrusted stardom. Here David Thomson, one of film’s most provocative writers, reveals the man behind cinema’s greatest icon.
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9780865479333 | 1 edition (Faber & Faber, January 5, 2010), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: “Look, I’m hardly pretty, he seems to say.
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9781429929967 | Faber & Faber, March 22, 2010, cover price $9.99
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“She could look demure while behaving like an empress. Blonde, with eyes like pearls too big for her head, she was very striking, but marginally pretty and certainly not beautiful . . . But it was her edge that made her memorable—her upstart superiority, her reluctance to pretend deference to others.” Bette Davis was the commanding figure of the great era of Hollywood stardom, with a drive and energy that put her contemporaries in the shade. She played queens, jezebels, and bitches; she could out-talk any male costar; she warred with her studio, Warner Bros., worked like a demon, got through four husbands, was nominated for seven Oscars, and—no matter what—never gave up fighting. This is her story.
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9780865479319 | Faber & Faber, January 5, 2010, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: “She could look demure while behaving like an empress.
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9781429999892 | Faber & Faber, March 22, 2010, cover price $9.99
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“Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, ‘natural’ Swedish girl—she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate of adult romantic expectation.” Adored by millions for her luminous beauty and elegance, at the height of her career Bergman commanded a love that has hardly ever been matched, until her marriage fell apart and created an international scandal. Here the renowned film writer David Thomson gives his own unique take on a woman who was constantly driven by her passions and by her need to act, even if it meant sacrificing everything.
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9780865479340 | Faber & Faber, January 5, 2010, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: “Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, ‘natural’ Swedish girl—she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad.
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9781429929981 | Faber & Faber, March 22, 2010, cover price $9.99
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9781110518234 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2009, cover price $30.99
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9781110518203 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2009, cover price $26.75
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9780375412134 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 3, 2009, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: From one of our most celebrated film critics and historians now comes a beautifully written memoir about his first eighteen years, growing up as an only child in south London in the midforties and late fifties.
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9780307473172 | 1 edition (Vintage Books, February 9, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: David Thomson, one of our most celebrated film writers, gives us a haunting, fascinating memoir about growing up as an only child in wartime England.
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9781103116034 | Lightning Source Inc, January 31, 2009, cover price $30.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
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9781103116010 | Lightning Source Inc, January 31, 2009, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781432673444 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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9781429013352 | Applewood Books, November 1, 2008, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: David Thomson's concise handbook explains how to grow fruit in greenhouses.
9781409717812 | Lightning Source Inc, May 31, 2008, cover price $30.45 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
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9780307270528 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 14, 2008, cover price $39.95
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9780307264619 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 14, 2008), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In 1975, David Thomson published his Biographical Dictionary of Film, and few film books have enjoyed better press or such steady sales.
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9780375711343 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 7, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: More than one thousand pages in the voice of our most provocative contemporary film critic and historian—a generous history of film and an enticing critical appraisal written with as much humor and passion as historical knowledge.
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9788496576605 | T & B Editores, February 28, 2008, cover price $68.95
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9781850787938 | Gardners Books, January 31, 2008, cover price $8.55
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9781400042739 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 5, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A portrait of Nicole Kidman chronicles her life on- and offscreen, describing how she has changed throughout her career, examining her personal decisions about her life, and analyzing what celebrity means in the life of an actress.
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9781400077816 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 8, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An original portrait of Nicole Kidman reflects on what it means to be an actress today while chronicling her life on- and offscreen, describing how she has changed throughout her career, examining her personal decisions about her life, and analyzing what celebrity means in the life of an actress.
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9780394542263 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1985, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Interlocking 'biographies' of legendary film characters--Jake Gittes and Noah Cross from 'Chinatown,' Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis from 'Sunset Boulevard,' and Rick and Ilsa from 'Casablanca'--make up a tale of obsession and suspense
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9781842431948 | Reprint edition (No Exit Pr, September 28, 2007), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime—these are a few of nearly 100 names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts to compose short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film noir.
9780394744681 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 1986), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Interlocking 'biographies' of legendary film characters--Jake Gittes and Noah Cross from 'Chinatown,' Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis from 'Sunset Boulevard,' and Rick and Ilsa from 'Casablanca'--make up a tale of obsession and suspense
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9781855034150 | Lda, April 5, 2007, cover price $34.60 | About this edition: Features a programme that helps children discover ways of thinking about study.
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9781406744415 | Lightning Source Inc, March 31, 2007, cover price $27.45 | About this edition: PERSONALITY IN POLITICS DAVID THOMSON, PH.
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9789681601805 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2006, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Los propósitos del autor al escribir este libro se cifran en el afán de presentar la vida de las naciones según los hechos que en común les atañen: la Revolución rusa, la depresión económica de Estados Unidos, las dos grandes guerras y los experimentos atómicos, hechos que han tenido una gran repercusión en toda la humanidad.
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9780803711181 | Dial Books for Young Readers, October 1, 1991, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A collection of over thirty visual tricks and illusions involving colors, shapes, patterns, and perspective offers insight into the way the human visual system operates
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9781402743610 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, December 4, 2006, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A collection of over thirty visual tricks and illusions involving colors, shapes, patterns, and perspective offers insight into the way the human visual system operates.
9780806944890 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, May 1, 2000, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A collection of over thirty visual tricks and illusions involving colors, shapes, patterns, and perspective offers insight into the way the human visual system operates.
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9781406719185 | Hesperides Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $29.45 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
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