TLA Film and Video Guide 2000-2001: The Discerning Film Lover's Guide

by Tla Video, David Bleiler (Editor)

Reviews over 9,500 films, and includes star, director, genre, country, and theme indexes

Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

Reviews

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some people held this series in very high regard....

Some people hated Arlene Shaw's Seen That, Now What?
as having too many mediocre films

and loved this book, preferring it to the Videohound series....

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yet can you take this book seriously, as some think this is the snooty Film Guide with 'better' films out there, yet they include Battlefield Earth with John Travolta in the 8000 plus films In this one...

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I would prefer the Videohound though for having the films of your fave actors by year rather than by 'title'

So I'm not totally sure this book is as great as some of the fanatics think....

But I think it's a good try at having mostly the better films you can find....

I'm wondering if you could say that the Theatre of the Living Arts
is the improved Halliwell's Guide to Film

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Again, I tend to think you need to own one of everything really, because sometimes, one book will be BOLD

and actually hate a well-loved film

or totally give great praise to what people think is a total dog

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That battle of not being cookie-cutter is why I liked

a. Scheuer's Movies on TV

[his 70s and 80s editions were far better than his lousy 60s editions]
[he reviewed plenty of obscure stuff in the 70s and 80s, and went in depth with many of the amazing early years of the TV-Movie]

b. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter's Video Movie Guides

And

c. Blockbuster's six years of trying their spin on things

[they had some of the most sympathetic reviews on the planet]

d. The Psychotronic Guide to Film

They were completists for the best years of strange film 1928-1982

and quit before the lousiest 80s 90s horror movies came out

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The Battlefield Earth is perplexing
but I'm sure that decades ago people would spit out their ginger ale
when they had Casino Royale in their film guide