- Taschenbuch: 666 Seiten
- Verlag: Cengage Gale; Auflage: 2 (31. Juli 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1578590906
- ISBN-13: 978-1578590902
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,6 x 18,2 x 4,1 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.2 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.368.448 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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VideoHound's Independent Film Guide is exclusively for lovers of independent cinema, movies made outside the Hollywood mainstream. If you're a fan of epics such as Burnt by the Sun and The English Patient, obscure black-and-white classics such as Dead of Night and He Ran All the Way, foreign oddities such as Matador and The Lair of the White Worm, or contemporary cult favorites such as Crash and Fargo, you'll find much to treasure here and some good tips on what to see next.
Most movie guides are group efforts, but this book was composed by a single author. Monica Sullivan's prose is as free spirited and idiosyncratic as the films she reviews. In reading the volume you'll become well enough acquainted with the author's enthusiasm for the cinema and her personal likes and dislikes to measure your own tastes by them. Digressive, idiosyncratic, but nevertheless rewarding, VideoHound's Independent Film Guide is as much a movie reference as it is an autobiography, the chronicle of one reviewer's personal engagement with some of the most extraordinary films ever made. The guide opens with an introduction by indie actress Mare Winningham and concludes with indices of actors, directors, and alternate titles for the films reviewed as well as a list of indie film Web sites, a guide to movie distributors, and the specialty of the VideoHound house: a quirky category index that classifies the films in the book under traditional headings such as "Action Adventure," "Comedy," and "Foreign," and also under a variety of atypical headings, including "Showbiz Dramas," "Female Bonding," and "Religion"--even "Killer Bugs"! -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Presents a guide to movies made outside of the Hollywood system, including films by the Coen brothers, John Sayles, and Krzysztof Kieslowski.
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This book has very bad reviews, many enteries lacking sufficient information, and even factual errors. I must agree with another reviewer who said that her analysis of "A Boy and His Dog" smacked of feminism. I think that Ms.Sullivan has some tricks up her sleeve, and her motives are questionable at best. A number of reviews have little plot description, and apparently Monica feels that this should be an outlet to unleash her boorish rants(I never thought a rant could be so mundane, until I read this book). One thing I must point out is that Ms.Sullivan calls the writer of "Kids" a she. Well, I am sure that Harmony Korine would be suprised to learn that he is really a woman! Come on, the author of this collection is obviously a hack who did the barest minimum of research. I could have come up with something far more accurate and amusing than this drivel. But still, I give this two stars instead of one, only because it is marginally helpful. Really, if you need info on a film, use the Internet Movie Database. Their compendium is far greater than anything in this book.
Format:Taschenbuch
Since I own a lot of VideoHound books and am a fan of Independant films, I decided purchase this book. Bad idea. The author is an elitist snob. She is constantly dropping names. When she reviews a movie, most of the time she will tell you that it reminds her of another, more foreign sounding movie. It is written with a complete lack of humor that is so pleantiful in other videohound guides. If you don't believe me, read her overbearing, femminist review of "A Boy & His Dog." In short, this book exemplifies everything that I hate about "independent" (read: multimillion dollar-artsy films with no immagination) movies. Its a cold, sterile entry into the otherwise great VideoHound library. The only redeeming value it has is the wonderful indexes that has become a VideoHound trademark.
Format:Taschenbuch
Read through some of the reviews in this book before you buy it!!! There are a number of things about this guide that are disappointing, so it's all the more pity that it seems to be the only published collection on independent films. (Let me preface my complaints by saying that, as with all film guides, the degree to which your taste lines up with the writer's makes a huge difference. Perhaps if I found this guide to be more consistent with my own taste, the other issues would not have bothered me so much.) Aside from the author's taste, here are some things about the guide that might bother you.
First, although the guide uses a rating system (from 4 "bones" [good] to a "woof" [bad]); you might be surprised, however, at how often the author will devote half a page describing a "woof" of a movie, and a mere few sentences describing a "four bone" film.
Second, although there are a number of useful appendices (films listed by director, cast member, category), there is no listing by rating; you'd think if they bother to rank films according to their bones system, at least they'd give us the chance to flip to the back and see a listing of what the author considers the best independent films.
Third, the author certainly knows film history, but it's annoying to have her rambling non-sequiters take the place of description or evaluation of a film (example: the entire "review" of "La Femme Nikita" is devoted to a tirade about how the American version of the film is a rip-off -- and how the tv series continues this corruption. Even if you agree with her, as I do, you may wish she at least described the orignal movie for those who have never seen it -- and gave some sense of what is interesting about it.)
Fourth, the physical format of the book is annoying; it is larger and "floppier" than other guides (such as the Time Out guide) and quite unwieldy (you won't find it is easy to sit and read, let alone carry into your video store).
Fifth, since Video Hound also publishes a companion guide to World Cinema, and since it's not clear what criteria are being used to include "foreign" (ie, non-English language) films in the current guide (the fact they are foreign? or famous? or the reviewer has seen them?), it's somewhat frustrating that there are a number of foreign films listed in this Independent Film Guide -- rather than more unknown or little-known indies.
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