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Summary: A great book for a film nut!!!!!!!!!1
Review: A terrific book!!!
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Summary: It is NOT a FILM encyclopedia
Review: A word of warning to the public. This is a mistitled book. It is NOT a film encyclopedia. You cannot look up specific films. Basically, it is a collection of brief biographies of people in the movie business with some unnecessary technical terms thrown in. At the end of each entry is a list of the films in which the subject has appeared.
Fine as far as it goes, but if you want reference work in which you can look up who played the role of Bubba in Le plus Vieux MŽtier du Monde, this is not it.
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Summary: Valuable filmgoer's reference
Review: A worthwhile compendium of film lore. The reviews are fair, and take in critical and public opinon from each film's time. Includes Oscar nominations and all major credits and cast. I could quibble with some of the inclusions and exclusions (what exactly was the criteria?), but what's here is good. Includes foreign films.
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Summary: One of a kind, indispensible
Review: An amazing reference book. One of those can't-live-without-it volumes in our house. Some people are slighted by their brief or missing entries, but hey, there's no other one-volume source of film lore like this one.
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Summary: A FIVE STAR BOOK
Review: Buy it now. This book is going to be your personal guide for the movies.
Simple and plain has all the usefull informations you need to build your personal movie collection or before you choose wich movie you are going to rent tonight.
It has all you can ask from a Film Encyclopedia.
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Summary: One of the Two Essentials
Review: Can't remember who starred with whom in what? If you can remember one, then you can cross-reference for the rest! This book, along with James Pallot's, "The Movie Guide," are all most viewers will need. I have reviewed that book too, and find that they were essential in helping build our own film library. Biographies are complete enough, and film terms and history are included. Want to know all the fims that Busby Berkley coreographed? It's in here. How many Thin Man films were there? It's in here. We have yet to need to know a fact that could not be found in one of these two books.
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Summary: The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia o
Review: Ephraim Katz does a fine job on this piece of artist' biographies. He introduces the actors/actresses real names, educational background, place of birth, and some personal yet public information on the artist' personal backgrounds. The book is well worth the purchase. Mr. Katz's research, itself, is informative, well understood, and quite interesting. As a reference, the reader will find that this book is not only well written but also well worth the time to look up biographies.
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Summary: Goes only up to the 80's
Review: Good book if you like classic movies. If part of your interests are focused from the 80's up to the present, forget about it. The writer died years ago, and nobody updated the book.
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Summary: Simply a staggering amount of film information
Review: I bought (and still have) the First Edition of this work when it first came out in the early '80s. I marvelled at the amount of entries. I still prefer its format to that of other film guides I have. I also find it amazing that it was the work of one man. Since Mr. Katz died, other editors have written newer entries, but I feel that Katz's leave his personal mark. One actually gets a feeling of film history in reading his entries. This encyclopedia is also truly international in scope, covering in depth Russian, French, Japanese, and other international film makers in depth. I will continue to buy new editions as they come out, even though it may have to go to multi-volumes in the future as this is already a hefty tome!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I don't know how this can be called a Film Encyclopedia when one cannot look up a film by its title.
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