1001: A Video Odyssey: Movies to Watch for Your Every Mood

by Steve Tatham

Book Overview

This is the must-have video guide for anyone searching for the perfect movie to rent (or buy). No more standing around the video store feeling foolish This entertaining and often hilarious guide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580650236
• ISBN13: 9781580650236
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Lone Eagle Publishing Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

The perfect movie guide

I love this guide. It makes it so easy to choose new movies as I have seen just about everything. I highly recommend it!!!

MovieMaker Magazine review

". . . And if you've ever experienced the misery of hour-long fruitless searches for decent rentals in an unorganized Blockbuster store, you'll undoubtedly find something to appreciate in Tatham's dogged collection. You'll probably also enjoy the anthology's final chapters, which include personal and unpopular picks you've likely never heard of, as well as "interesting movie tidbits" and Oscar trivia...Tatham does offer some insightful choices. Fortunately, Tatham also knows a lot about movies and defines "mood" broadly so that his anthology includes "genre" lists and auteur lists (and lists for Allen and Hitchcock) along with holiday, cult and period picks."

A movie buff's delight!

1001: A Video Odyssey - Movies To Watch For Your Every Mood is a movie buff's delight for simple browsing or film watch scheduling. Steve Tatham offers an entertaining and often very funny guide for video rental and movie collectors. This compendium of movies missed, forgotten, or never heard of is artfully organized and grouped by politically correct and no-so-correct ideas and attitudes. A hip, original, and fun video guide offers such novel categories as Zit Flicks; Before They Were Stars; Lethal Wenches; Dysfunction Junction; Splitsville Hits; Films That Should Have Won Best Picture Oscar, and (my personal favorite) Not In Front Of Your Parents. No cinema buff can call his film and video reference collection complete without the inclusion of Steve Tatham's 1001: A Video Odyssey!

Valencia, CA

Outstanding! Many a night we have gone to the video store in search of the latest releases only to find that they are all checked out. This finally ends our frustration. Tatham opens the eyes of the consumer and shouts at them that there are hidden gems on those dusty shelves marked "comedy", "drama" and "action/adventure". He also makes it almost (and I mean almost) palatable to rent a movie with subtitles. His acidic commentary on not only the plot summaries but also the genre of the films he is recommending is "laugh out loud" funny. It makes you wonder why the television networks aren't using this guy to lift their I.Q. demographics. 1001: A Movie Odyssey is a must have for the cinema connoisuer. It's a video bible. This should be handed to you right after they cut your umbilical cord and slap you in the ass.

Valencia, CA

Outstanding! Many a night we have gone to the video store in search of the latest releases only to find that they are all checked out. This finally ends our frustration. Tatham opens the eyes of the consumer and shouts at them that there are hidden gems on those dusty shelves marked "comedy", "drama" and "action/adventure". He also makes it almost (and I mean almost) palatable to rent a movie with subtitles. His acidic commentary on not only the plot summaries but also the genre of the films he is recommending is "laugh out loud" funny. It makes you wonder why the television networks aren't using this guy to lift their I.Q. demographics. 1001: A Movie Odyssey is a must have for the cinema connoisuer. It's a video bible. This should be handed to you right after they cut your umbilical cord and slap you in the (...).