Robert James Leslie Halliwell[1] (23 February 1929 – 21 January 1989) was a British film critic, encyclopaedist and television rights buyer for ITV, the British commercial network, and Channel 4. He is best known for his reference guides, Filmgoer's Companion (1965), a single volume film-related encyclopaedia featuring biographies (with credits) and technical terms, and Halliwell's Film Guide (1977), which is dedicated to individual films.
Anthony Quinton wrote in the Times Literary Supplement: "Immersed in the enjoyment of these fine books, one should look up for a moment to admire the quite astonishing combination of industry and authority in one man which has brought them into existence."[2]
Halliwell's promotion of the cinema through his books and seasons of "golden oldies'"on Channel 4 won him awards from the London Film Critics' Circle, the British Film Institute and a posthumous BAFTA.[3][4][5]
^See the following book reviews: Anthony Quinton in The Times Literary Supplement, 25 November 1977; Charles Champlin in The Los Angeles Times, 4 May 1979; Benny Green in The Spectator, 11/1977; John Russell Taylor in The Times Educational Supplement, 2 June 1978; David Bartholomew in Library Journal Book Review, 1979; Variety, 23 December 1987.quoted in Halliwell's Horizon, Michael Binder, p.195
Robert James LeslieHalliwell (23 February 1929 – 21 January 1989) was a British film critic, encyclopaedist and television rights buyer for ITV, the British...
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and sadism ... All performances are highly competent." LeslieHalliwell stated in his Halliwell's Filmgoers Companion that the film was a "(b)rooding, compulsive...
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seasons were Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano). After Doherty departed from the series in 2001, resulting...
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best role", and lauded the careful casting of the "lesser roles." LeslieHalliwell said: "Rather gloomy suspense thriller with ineffective personal aspects...
different view of her ranging from kindly neighbour to drunken bitch." LeslieHalliwell said: "Multi-flashback melodrama which somehow doesn't quite come off...
and criticized it for its "turgid direction" and "contrived plot". LeslieHalliwell also panned the film as a "hysterical psychic melodrama which pretty...
box-office hit, but critical reactions were mixed, with film critic LeslieHalliwell pointing out that all of the actors were too old for their characters...
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Front Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 8 March 2014. Halliwell, Leslie (1989). Halliwell's Film Guide (7th ed.). London: Paladin. p. 1072. ISBN 0586088946...
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