Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments From The Movies [Hardcover]

Joe Garner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2003

Some of our fondest memories come from the movies. Dorothy melting the Wicked Witch of the West. A bruised and battered Rocky crying out ?A-DRI-AN!? Thelma and Louise flying off a Grand Canyon cliff in their airborne T-Bird. From our seat in the darkened theater, movies have miraculously transported us to other places, other times, other worlds. We?ve followed Indiana Jones on his quest for the lost ark, fallen in love with Ingrid and Marilyn and Meg, and battled a fiery Balrog in Middle Earth.The images emanating from the big screen have seared these moments into our hearts and imaginations, becoming memories that last a lifetime. Nearly everyone can name a favorite film and any number of beloved scenes, and Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies makes it possible to relive those special movie memories again and again.Based on the successful multimedia format of Stay Tuned: Television?s Unforgettable Moments, Now Showing focuses on 25 memorable film moments. Each story in the 192-page hardcover book is filled with firsthand insights and entertaining behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and numerous sidebars reveal hundreds of other magical movie moments. Now Showing is illustrated with over 200 compelling star-filled photographs, and best of all, the accompanying DVD, hosted by a major motion picture star, contains the actual treasured and time-honored scenes from each film. The only thing that readers need to bring to the experience is the popcorn!From Casablanca to The Graduate, The Exorcist to E.T., On the Waterfront to Pulp Fiction, Dirty Harry to The Matrix: The stars and performances you?ll never forget are found in Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies, the latest multimedia collection from Joe Garner.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Multimedia book expert Garner (Stay Tuned; And the Crowd Goes Wild; We Interrupt This Broadcast, etc.) turns his eye from TV and radio to film in his latest "best of" compilation. Garner admits up front that certain studios prohibited him from using films for this book, so his list of the silver screen's 25 "unforgettable moments" is necessarily limited. Nonetheless, it's a fine assemblage of memorable movies. Beginning with 1939's The Wizard of Oz and ending with 2001 and 2002's Lord of the Rings movies, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, Garner shares a few film stills and discusses the cast, crew and filming specifics. For example, in the chapter on Field of Dreams, Garner details the difficulty of finding the right location for shooting and in Some Like It Hot he explains that Tony Curtis's famous, mid-seduction leg lift was designed to avoid the ire of Hollywood censors. Though hardly comprehensive, this is still a fun look at American cinema's evolution, complete with a DVD featuring commentary from Dustin Hoffman.
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About the Author

Joe Garner, a pioneer in multimedia publishing, is the author of Stay Tuned: Television's Unforgettable Moments. Joe also wrote the New York Times best-sellers We Interrupt This Broadcast, And The Crowd Goes Wild, and And the Fans Roared, as well as Echoes of Notre Dame Football. Each of these multimedia compilations includes the actual landmark broadcasts that indelibly etched these moments in readers' imaginations. Joe is a 20-year radio-broadcast veteran and the president of Garner Creative Concepts Inc. in Los Angeles. He's a frequent guest on radio and national television shows, including the Today show and Larry King Live. Garner's books are also best-sellers in Publishers Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Har/DVD edition (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740738364
• ISBN-13: 978-0740738364
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 9.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,759,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A FABULOUS BOOK AND DVD!!!, December 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments From The Movies (Hardcover)

I cannot think of a book I brought recently that I like as well as this one. It is a real treasure, a beautiful, well-written book and a joy to read. It brought back so many wonderful cinematic memories. The DVD was as good as it gets. A wonderful job of picking out the most important and entertaining clips. It's a marvelous gift to give and get. I cannot believe such a wonderful and richly bound and illustrated book AND A DVD of such quality and depth can be purchased for so little. It's everything a movie buff and book lover could hope for. Do it again Mr. Garner!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Now Showing!, October 26, 2004

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Thayer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments From The Movies (Hardcover)

This is a fine coffee table book, but mine I don't put it in there (LOL), because I'm sure with the people who come to my house it'll be in ruins by a week. Anyhow I'm a little disappointed though with some of the movies chosen because most are minor classics (like Cast Away, Field of Dreams, Wall Street, Rocky), I mean what happened to Singin' in the Rain, Gone with the Wind, All About Eve, Chinatown etc.?

Ok I have the answer to that, the author if I remember correctly said he wasn't able to get the permission to put some scenes in the DVD of some really great movies, so he settled for movies that allowed him to do so. But don't be disappointed because it's still a fun read and a collector's item for movie enthusiasts. Only that this is an inferior collection of unforgettable screen moments compared to the compilations of other publications I read like Tv Guide or Entertainment Weekly.


There is a DVD included with a documentary (sort of) featuring some of the famous scenes from the 25 movies like Clarice and Lecter's first meeting, Thelma and Loiuse in the Grand Canyon, Meg Ryan simulating an orgasm.etc. And also Dustin Hoffman hosted the show and provided with some background for each movie. All in all it's more than 2 hours of content.

Grade: B+

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOADS OF MEMORIES, January 3, 2004

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Joe Brown (Woodstock, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments From The Movies (Hardcover)

So many movie scenes go with important periods in one's life and this book brought so many of them back. Movies, as the author pointed out, are part of our culture. It was a great idea to include a DVD. As much as I liked the book and the beautiful pages and photos, the DVD was even better. What a great idea for a book about movies!