Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2002

Halliwell's Film Guides

by Leslie Halliwell

Halliwell's Film and Video Guide gets better with each passing year. Though original editor Leslie Halliwell died in 1989, John Walker has continued to edit the book in the Halliwell tradition. Halliwell and Walker don't comment at length upon the films, but they provide an enormous amount of indispensable information. This tome contains more than 20,000 movie reviews and provides a full list of credits for each. Running time, director, cast, and availability on video are documented, as well as the writer, photographer, studio, country of origin, film editor, production designer, and composer of music. The authors also note whether the film is suitable for family viewing and tell if it was nominated for, or if it won, an Oscar or a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award. If a film contains classic lines of dialogue, or received particularly interesting comments from the critics, Halliwell and Walker are sure to transcribe them. Halliwell's Film and Video Guide is a treasure no movie lover will want to be without.

982 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2001

About the author

Leslie Halliwell was born in Bohon. He buys most of the feature films and series screened by the lTV network and goes twice a year to Hollywood in search of them; he has been an enthusiast for the mediums since childhood. He has managed several Rank Organisation and specialist cinemas and is a member of two National Film Archive committees.

Reviews

[Chris Gager · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the one I picked up at the transfer station and have been mining for trivia questions. I'll delete the other one...

It's an excellent reference and more fun than Maltin, though the author(as with Maltin) has some blatant blind spots when it comes to fair reviewing. It also features many more foreign(especially British) films than Maltin. I love the critical blurbs quoted, though. Also, there are some strange omissions of relevant films both new and older.

I haven't "finished" reading this, but I need to clean out my "currently reading" list. I visit this book regularly just for fun. I don't know when, if ever, I'll get back to writing trivia questions from it.

[~☆~Autumn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Endless trash!