The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

From Abbott and Costello to Crumb's Terry Zwigoff, David Thomson expertly caters the banquet of film history in the latest edition of this classic. One critics' poll called it the best movie book ever; it also has some of the finest, orneriest writing in the English language.

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