Henry Carter Hull

Collection of reviews and essays concerning actors and actresses, the early years of movies, various genres, directors, and screen writers.

Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin recommends 151 lesser-acclaimed films, most of which were made during the 1990s and 2000s, presented alphabetically, and provides cast and crew information, along with a plot synopsis and brief commentary.

Traces the history of the cinema as an industry and as popular art, chronicling over 100 years of achievement, and looking at all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact throughout the world.

Film scholar David Thomson focuses in on a series of moments-- which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery-- from 72 films across a 100-year-plus span. Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inextricably tied to the text. Thomson's moments range from a set of Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic-- Citizen...