Time Out 1000 Films to Change Your Life (Time Out Guides) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Time Out Guides | Publication Date: May 9, 2006

Over 1,000 films are listed in this visually arresting, full-color celebration of the silver screen. Film personalities, including actors, directors, cinematographers, and animators, write about their favorite films from a variety of angles. Martin Scorsese, Nicole Kidman, and Nick Hornby are among those who weigh in. Writers are matched to suitable (or sometimes surprising) themes and genres within the wider subject of how films can alter the course of a life. Movie stills and posters, trivia, and top-ten lists make this a book that can be dipped into or read from cover to cover. Great screen moments — endings, beginnings, kisses, death scenes — are given special spreads. The eclectic approach speaks to fans of big Hollywood blockbusters and factoid-reciting film geeks alike. Time Out guides have become well-known for their hip, savvy travel coverage, and this wider-ranging pop cultural coverage follows in this tradition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: Time Out (May 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904978738
• ISBN-13: 978-1904978732
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Source for Good Movies!, July 22, 2008

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moto tomita (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Out 1000 Films to Change Your Life (Time Out Guides) (Paperback)

This book is not only an excellent source for good movies, but also well-composed contents with numerous comments from movie directors/ actors/ actress.
You can also find the movies in 10 categories: Joy, Anger, Food for thought, Desire, Fear, Sadness, Exhilaration, Regret, Contempt and Wonder.
I thought TIMEOUT was a sort of "fashion" paper but I was wrong on this one.
It deserves to buy it, own it and keep it....to me.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't like the lay-out, no cohesion, hard to read, May 23, 2011

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This review is from: Time Out 1000 Films to Change Your Life (Time Out Guides) (Paperback)

Hate the way this book is laid out. It's not user friendly at all. It suggests it's going to be a very accessible list form of "1000 films to change your life" but it's really hard to read, there's no cohesion. The layout and the way it's broken us is really offputting. Bummed - bought it as a gift :(

1.0 out of 5 stars save your time and money, January 25, 2012

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.fgd (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time Out 1000 Films to Change Your Life (Time Out Guides) (Paperback)

One thousand films and 10 categories that's 100 approx films per category most of which end up in an index with nothing more than actor's names. Finding good films involves sifting through a lot of flour but it is dissappointing to come across so many weevils in this guide.Take the Fear category that spends 5/22 pages on Frankenstein,vampire and even jeckell and hyde.That's a lot of clinches and talking of formula cookie cutter idea'd movies how come no mention of teen zombie ones? Meanwhile missing must sees not highly commercial like Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu" where Klaus Kinski puts the most realistic and creepy imprint on cellulloid of a ghoul ever. Yet frankly, no, "Jason and the Argonauts" is not a horror movie.
There are distorted and indulgent views I mean don't bother to print that a pregnant cop retching in the snow comes under the Desire category (morning sickness in "Fargo" or comment that "Taxidriver" is disquieting.It would.of been if he'd shot the president but it's actually more deeper loopy and righteous than that. Then how can this guide miss "what ever happened to baby Jane" in the contempt category.
Chapters dwelling on films I don't know of and miistrust because they miss the obvious elsewhere and this dwelling takes up too much room so they stash most in the index unreviewed.