David Thomson - 'the greatest of today's film writers' according to J.G. Ballard - has added 300 new entries to this fourth edition of the dictionary, which now contains 1,300 in all: some a penetrating paragraph, others brilliantly descriptive essays.
All the great newcomers to the industry are here, as well as appealing figures from film history: there are glowing portraits of Eddie Cantor, Rin-Tin-Tin, Graham Greene, Pauline Kael, Abbot and Costello, Paul Ruiz, Hoagy Carmichael and many others.
'The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film' is personal, opinionated, funny, daring, provocative and passionate. Thomson's book is the definitive movie handbook for every filmmaker and film buff - a great, rare book, which depicts wonderfully the mingling of art, entertainment, money, vulgarity, power-brokering and nonsense that we call the movies.
