Phil's Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime (2013 Edition)

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Mountain Lake Press, 2012 M12 20 - 352 pages
Phil Berardelli has been in love with movies ever since his first encounter as a little boy thrilled him and then scared the daylights out of him. In the intervening years, including a six-year stint as a TV movie critic, Phil has seen at least 5,000 titles. Here he has put together a list of his 500+ favorites, which he has separated into 51 categories. He has accompanied each one with informative, witty, and often insightful capsule comments along with bits of trivia, formatting descriptions and, where available, links to online trailers, clips and full-length versions.
Newly updated for 2013 and containing 15 new titles, Phil's Favorite 500 encompasses everything Phil has learned in over half a century of moviegoing. The list includes something for everyone - adults, couples, children, teens and families - and covers some of the greatest movies ever made, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, as well as some of the cinema's most entertaining clunkers. Many of his choices - and omissions - may surprise you. But in all cases, Phil makes compelling arguments for sampling these titles. If you do, you may find yourself adding many of them to your own list of favorites.
Sampled, browsed, or read from beginning to end, Phil's Favorite 500 reflects a love of the medium that is contagious, and his descriptions could help you view even the most familiar movies in a new and very entertaining way.

About the author (2012)

Phil Berardelli has indeed been "movie demented" nearly all his life. In his younger years he spent many hours peering through the lens of a Super-8 movie camera, and many, many hours splicing the resulting film together. He created a class called "Inside Movies," which he taught to junior highschoolers in the 1980s. The class used American movies as a vehicle to teach critical thinking and writing skills. For six years, likewise in the '80s, he produced and co-hosted "The Moviegoing Family," a weekly television program that began on local cable in the Washington, D.C., area and appeared nationally on The Learning Channel. And he has written and co-written two terrific but unpurchased screenplays. In his other life he was a journalist with several decades of experience, covering topics such as energy, science, education and highway safety as well as popular culture. His work appeared in The Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and many other newspapers and magazines. He worked as an editor with McGraw-Hill, Time-Life and United Press International. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he has lived in Northern Virginia since 1970 and in western Maryland since 2007.

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TitlePhil's Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime (2013 Edition)
AuthorPhil Berardelli
PublisherMountain Lake Press, 2012
ISBN0985114177, 9780985114176
Length352 pages
  
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