Film Review (annual)

Not to be confused with Film Review (magazine), The Film Review, or Film review.

Film Reviewl (or The Fim Review annual) was a yearly British publication founded in 1944 by the English film critic F. Maurice Speed. [1] [2]

The "world's longest running film book",[3] each annual volume covered a year in cinema. In addition to the year's film releases, the annual included pictures, articles, and regular features, including 'The Year in Cinema', 'Releases of the Year in Pictures', 'Rising Stars', 'Looking Forward', and 'The Year in Disneyland'.[4] Contributing authors included Alfred Hitchcock, Audrey Hepburn, Alan Ladd, Betty Grable, Bing Crosby, Cecil B. DeMille, Doris Day, James Mason, John Mills, John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, and Walt Disney.[3]

In 2015, the Cinema Museum (London) celebrated the history of the annual and the final published edition.[5] After 70 issues of the movie almanac, Film Review moved to a digital format.[6]

  1. ^ "Library of Congress Record". Library of Congress.
  2. ^ "Obituary: F. Maurice Speed". The Independent. September 10, 1998.
  3. ^ a b "F. Maurice Speed" The Times, September 18th, 1998, p.27.
  4. ^ Darvell, Michael; Stimpson, Mansell (2015). Film Review 2014-2015. Signum Books. p. 164. ISBN 9780957648173.
  5. ^ "70 Years of Film Review » The Cinema Museum, London".
  6. ^ "About". FILM REVIEW.