A Century of Films: Derek Malcolm's Personal Best

by Derek Malcolm

Invited by The Guardian newspaper to explore his choice of 100 films in the millennium in a weekly column spanning two years, film writer and critic Derek Malcolm set out on a project which has attracted much attention. This book is a critical celebration of unparalleled knowledge and understanding of what cinema can achieve. Malcolm not only pleases to filmgoers, but introduces readers to films that they may not yet have discovered.

Genres: Film

184 pages, Paperback

First published February 3, 2001

About the author

Derek Malcolm was an English film critic and historian.

Reviews

[Alison Massa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a gem -- a fine introduction to great world cinema. Derek Malcom picks his favorite film by each of 100 directors and with great economy and elegance of style manages to inform the reader about the director's oeuvre and place in cinema history in one or two pages. There are of course some missing names that would appear on my list -- no Bergman, Clouzot, Malle, Sautet or Tavernier, for example, but those gaps are more than made up for by introductions to films and directors that were new to me. Highly recommended and, at a time when art house cinemas are disappearing, important.