Research Catalog

Title

Joe Leydon's guide to essential movies you must see if you read, write about, or make movies / Joe Leydon.

Author

Leydon, Joe, 1952-

Publication

Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions, c2004.

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Details

Description

xii, 306 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Film critic Joe Leydon takes you on a ride through more than 60 movies that have defined genres, influenced filmmakers, and still serve as standards by which other films are measured. He explains why these titles are often used as shorthand in pitch meetings and plot synopses - precisely why these are the movies you must see."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Guide to essential movies you must see if you read, write about, or make movies

Subject

Motion pictures

Genre/Form

Motion pictures

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In the Beginning -- Silents Please -- The Birth of a Nation -- Nosferatu -- The General -- City Lights -- Americana -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Gone with the Wind -- Citizen Kane -- Rocky -- All the President's Men -- Taxi Driver -- Smokey and the Bandit -- Do the Right Thing -- Men and Women -- His Girl Friday -- Dark Victory -- Casablanca -- Pillow Talk -- Song and Dance -- 42nd Street -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- Singin' in the Rain -- Cabaret -- Westward Bound -- Stagecoach -- High Noon -- Shane -- The Searchers -- Rio Bravo -- A Fistful of Dollars -- The Wild Bunch -- Cinemafantastique -- Metropolis -- Frankenstein -- Plan 9 from Outer Space -- 2001: A Space Odyssey -- Star Wars -- Halloween -- Blade Runner -- The Master of Suspense -- Notorious -- Vertigo -- North by Northwest -- Psycho -- Crimes and Misdemeanors -- M -- The Public Enemy -- The Maltese Falcon -- Double Indemnity -- Detour -- Bonnie and Clyde -- GoodFellas -- The Killer -- Action! -- Flash Gordon -- Guadalcanal Diary -- Lawrence of Arabia -- 48 HRS. -- Die Hard -- Funny Business -- Duck Soup -- Dr. Strangelove -- Annie Hall -- National Lampoon's Animal House -- Foreign Influences -- Open City -- Rashomon -- Seven Samurai -- The 400 Blows -- Day for Night -- Beyond the Mainstream -- Return of the Secaucus 7 -- Stranger Than Paradise -- Blue Velvet -- Reservoir Dogs -- That's A Wrap!

ISBN

0941188922

LCCN

^^2004004312

OCLC

54500300

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library