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David Thomson - Moments That Made the Movies - 9780500291559 - V9780500291559
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Moments That Made the Movies

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Description for Moments That Made the Movies Paperback. .
In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments – which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery – from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span. His moments range from a set of Eadward Muybridge’s pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic – Citizen Kane , Sunset Boulevard and The Red Shoes – to the unexpected – The Piano Teacher , Burn After Reading – immersing the reader via a groundbreaking marriage of imagery and the author’s accompanying narrative. David Thomson’s evocative, unflinching prose and profound understanding ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500291559
SKU
V9780500291559
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About David Thomson
David Thomson is a British film critic and historian based in the USA and the author of more than twenty books. His reference works in particular – Have You Seen...?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film – have been praised as works of high literary merit and eccentricity. John Banville called him ‘the ... Read more

Reviews for Moments That Made the Movies
'David Thomson is the best writer on film in our time. He is our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen' - Michael Ondaatje 'Probably the greatest living film critic and historian … writes the most fun and enthralling prose about the movies since Pauline Kael' - Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic Monthly 'Thomson has been one of the liveliest, ... Read more

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