101 Forgotten Films [Paperback]

Brian Mills (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2008

Somewhere in the labyrinth of our memories are films that we have seen and cannot forget but frustratingly may never see again because they have mysteriously vanished from the public domain. They may be hidden away in a film studio's vault, buried beneath the floorboards of a filmmaker's home, imprisoned by some ancient legality, refused release at a director's whim, or simply not optioned by a distributor. This book brings back to life 101 films that are entombed in a cinema cemetery and in so doing unearths a film noir masterpiece, a French classic, a Mastroianni feature comparable to Cinema Paradiso, a pioneering Independent film of the 1950s, a Joan Crawford headliner, an amazing Nicholas Ray experimental feature, Italian comedies by Nichetti, and lost gems by Widerberg, Hitchcock, Lang, Ford, Lubitsch, Litvak, Dmytryk, Kazan, Cacoyannis, Boetticher, Zinnemann, Ray, Huston, and many more luminaries of the silver screen. Though critics may acclaim them, audiences applaud them, and Sundance or Cannes may screen them, no film is guaranteed a general release, and too many disappear into oblivion. This book pays homage to those lost films that deserve to be exhibited beyond the screen of our memories.

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About the Author

Brian Mills is a film reviewer and author of Movie Star Memorabilia: A Collector’s Guide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Oldcastle Books (November 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1842432524
• ISBN-13: 978-1842432525
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,966,096 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Good Guide...Poorly Edited and HUGE mistakes, June 27, 2010

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This review is from: 101 Forgotten Films (Paperback)

This book covers a number of movies that wrongly (or maybe rightly) have been forgotten by most of the general public AND Hollywood.
While it is a good guide to those forgotten films it is very poorly edited,w/ numerous mistakes in spelling and grammar.
It also has critical errors about films ( For Paths of Glory,the Kubrick feature, it cites desertion and not COWARDICE as the reason the soldiers were prosecuted) that are inexcusable and detract from the overall work.
And finally, while there are some Indian,Italian and Australian films in the book, the majority of the films are Hollywood features that unlike some foreign features WERE available at some time in the recent past. Most foreign "forgotten gems" have not been.
A good book ruined by poor editing and a lack of research.