Time Out Film Guide 2002

by Time Out Guides (Editor), John Pym (Editor)

A film reference book with a distinctly British flavor, the Time Out Film Guide is a collection of capsule reviews written originally for the London magazine Time Out. Its commentary is more lengthy and detailed than that of most other guides, and while some of its critics summarize too much of their movies' plots, their critical remarks are engaging and provocative. The Time Out Film Guide features contributions from scores of movie critics who sometimes spar with one another: compare the book's two assessments of Blade Runner. The reviewers cover many European and Asian movies you won't find in other movie guides. This is the only film book where you can find remarks on Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, and Forrest Gump alongside reviews of major films not widely released in America, such as Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton's Film, Akira Kurosawa's Madadayo, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman. The Time Out Film Guide also contains a great number of terrific appendices and indices. In fact, it is this book's lists of films by genre, by major film-producing country, by actor, director, and general subject that make it a necessary reference tool for movie lovers.

1538 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2001

Reviews

[Evan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I only have this particular 10th edition of the Time Out Film Guide. Below are the notes I had made about it a few years ago:

Time Out Film Guide, by John Pym (Ed.), Geoff Andrew. Penguin Books, London; New York. (10th Ed., 2001)
***(Note: First published in 1989 and edited by Tom Milne for several editions thereafter. An attempt at a relatively highbrow films-rated guide covering films from around the world. A well-written volume, yet its selections are as not as comprehensive as hyped; many masterpieces of world cinema are still omitted. Still, one of the best and most attractive attempts so far.)

kr,eg '19