The Best DVDs You've Never Seen, Just Missed or Almost Forgotten: A Guide for the Curious Film Lover - Softcover

A. O. Scott; Stephen Holden; Caryn James; Dave Kehr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312343620 ISBN 13: 9780312343620

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005

Synopsis

Want to look further than the nearest mega-plex?
At last, a guide for you.

A.O. Scott
Stephen Holden
Caryn James
Dave Kehr
Peter M. Nichols

If just trudging to the latest Hollywood blockbuster doesn't appeal to you, The Best DVDs You've Never Seen, Narrowly Missed or Almost Forgotten is the perfect companion. Inside, the film critics of The New York Times have made their top choices for those movies that are unjustly obscure, overlooked or just plain forgotten.

* Newly updated reviews of 500 films---all available on DVD!
* Sophisticated, intelligent, entertaining, provoking---these films run the gamut.
* Each critic's top 10 picks from the book
* Introduction by A. O. Scott, chief movie critic for The New York Times

The perfect gift for any serious movie buff, no matter what they prefer, from Waiting for Guffman to Happy, Texas, The Opposite of Sex to Belle Epoque. Film noir, documentaries, drama, Westerns, animation, comedies, foreign films, even a few must-see TV shows on DVD---The Best DVDs You've Never Seen, Narrowly Missed or Almost Forgotten has it all.

About this title

About the Author:

THE NEW YORK TIMES is renowned for its thoughtful, fun, and wide-ranging movie coverage. Its film critics and writers are known and admired nationwide. Critics A.O. Scott, Stephen Holden, Caryn James, Dave Kehr and Peter M. Nichols have contributed to The Best DVDs You've Never Seen Just Missed or Almost Forgotten.

From Publishers Weekly:

A self-described "source of information about films that might have been neglected or overlooked or, conversely, well known at one time and now worth a reminder," this hodgepodge guide may most appeal to readers who value a New York Times recommendation above all else. The collection includes "art films," small-scale indies and foreign-language films, as well as coming-of-age comedies and thrillers that "flourish on the far side of respectability," according to critic A.O. Scott's introduction. "The editors try to ease the anxious quandary you may face wandering up the video-store aisles in search of something to watch," he says. They succeed in that mission; the films, organized alphabetically and described in approximately one page each, range from Joseph H. Lewis's 1949 Gun Crazy, which Pauline Kael called "a tawdry version of the Bonnie and Clyde story," to Ridley Scott's 1977 The Duellists, adapted from a Joseph Conrad story, to Laurent Cantet's 2001 Time Out, which chronicles workers' woes at the management level. Most (though not all) of the films listed were produced within the past 30 years, and though they vary widely in terms of genre and commercial value, all are, as Scott says, "worth seeking out."
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About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312343620
• ISBN 13: 9780312343620
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Peter M. Nichols