Cinema: Year by Year, 1894-2003

By David Thomson

"The Kid" meets "The Jazz Singer" and "It's a Wonderful Life" as they have "Breakfast at Tiffany's" before "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Harry Potter" casts a cinematic spell. From the birth of film... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0751369985
• ISBN13: 9780751369984
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 1005 Pages

Customer Reviews

Much more than a coffee table book

If you enjoy watching or just know about the cinema, this book is for you. For those of us who are old enough to remember, we are whisked back to what we were doing at the time and remember the impact of the first of a series or the first of a new technique. For the rest of us, it gives us backgrounds that we did not have the privilege of seeing firsthand. Being divided into years makes it easy to retrieve information and to view what is going on at the same time. The book itself seems to be a collection of newspaper articles and posters from the time of each movie. You cannot get this information from a cheap cinema magazine. For those people who are too impatient or that browsing drives them up the wall, there is a comprehensive Contents and Index that includes special features such as "The Oscar Story" and "Special Effects: Tricks of the Trade." They seem to have left out a few of my favorites yet; I am just having fun reading the blurbs. They have everything from "Laura" to "Total Recall"