The current edition of this volume contains some 480 new reviews, with enriched coverage of both new and old titles from France, China and Japan, and it has, in addition, been extensively revised and expanded. Key creative personnel - producers, screenwriters, cinematographers,editors, production designers and composers - are now listed, in addition to directors and cast members. This guide regular features - the Centenary Top One Hundred poll of critics and film-makers and the Reader's Top One Hundred poll - have been retained, along with icons in the text highlighting every film in both polls. The appendices of film categories and major film-producing countries, and the actors', directors' and general subject indexes have been updated and expanded, as has the appendix for the chief prize-winner at the Academy Awards and BAFTA ceremonies, plus those from the Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals. finally, end credits marks the achievements of more than a hundred notable film people who died between July 1998 and June 1999.