Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen
(2024)

Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dey Street Books, 2024
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1 online resource (354 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9780061987816 MWT16573981, 0061987816 16573981
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

What 151 movies have you never seen-but should? What French film could teach Hollywood how to make a smart, sexy romantic comedy? (page 233) Where will you find a female-centric Western with a gender-bending protagonist? (page 10) What film won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and then fell off the radar? (page 261) What farcical comedy includes such real-life characters as Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger? (page 50) In what unsung comedy will you find Michael Douglas giving his all-time best performance? (page 130) What debut film from the director of The Dark Knight creates palpable chills-despite a shoestring budget and a no-name cast? (page 79) What John Wayne movie was out of circulation for thirty years-and still qualifies as a sleeper? (page 121) What terrific Heath Ledger movie was released the same month as Brokeback Mountain-and flopped? (page 26) What clever modern-day film noir was made for just half a million dollars? (page 18) What captivating film stars one of the seminal artists of the twentieth century? (page 203)

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