The Movie Companion

An essential guide for any movie buff and the perfect antidote to film guides compiled by committees, 'The Movie Companion' offers a true expert's personal, wide-ranging, iconoclastic, no-holds-barred take on over a hundred years of film history. Here, you will find an illustrated A-Z of more than 2,500 incisive and entertaining entries on film, from Aardman Animations to Zukor, Adolf, including essays on over 1,000 cinema personalities detailing key lines and lists of key films. Get the low-down on actors, directors, producers, studios, equipment, techniques, genres and industry jargon from the Abby Singer shot to zone focusing. Boxed insets offer lists of best, and sometimes worst, films in every category from film noir to musicals and weepies.