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Sep 02, 2014 this 2015 edition covers the modern era, from 1965 to the present, while including all the great older films you cant afford to missand those you canfrom boxoffice smashes to cult classics to forgotten gems to forgettable bombs, listed alphabetically, and complete with all the essential information you could ask for. He has done freelance curating and lecturing for a number of museum retrospective and college courses. Leonard maltin is a respected film critic and historian, perhaps best known for his annual paperback reference leonard maltins movie guide, which was first published in 1969 and is now available as iphone and ipad app. Leonard michael maltin born december 18, 1950 is an american film critic and film historian, as well as an author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives he is perhaps best known for his eponymous annual book. The hollywood shorts story, broadcast by tcm in 2002, was based on maltins book the great movie shorts.
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