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9780500516416 English 0500516413 In his first fully illustrated work, David Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series of moments--which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery--from seventy-two films across a 100-year-plus span. An indispensable counterpart to both his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film (called "a miracle" by Sight and Sound) and his lauded recent history, The Big Screen ("a pungently written, brilliant book" according to David Denby), Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inextricably tied to the text. Thomson s moments range from a set of Eadweard Muybridge s pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic--Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, The Red Shoes--to the unexpected--The Piano Teacher, Burn After Reading. The excitement of Momentss dynamic visuals will be matched only by the discussion it incites in film circles, as readers revisit their own list of memorable moments and then re-experience the films--both those included on Thomsons list and from their own life--as never before. Moments That Made the Movies will undoubtedly reaffirm Thomsons place as--according to John Banville--"the greatest living writer on the movies.", 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. Hailed by John Banville as the greatest living writer on the movies, David Thomson takes readers on an unprecedented visual journey. His moments range from a set of Eadward Muybridges 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 authors accompanying narrative. David Thomsons evocative, unflinching prose and profound understanding of what makes film and art form identify him as one of the great film writers of our time, making it likely that Moments that Made the Movies will be widely viewed as an important classic on the subject of international cinema., In this new work, Thomson writes between 500 and 1000 words each about what he regards as crucial moments in over 75 films from all over the world, each illustrated by multiple images.This is a critical film history in which, rather than being an illustrative afterthought, the imagery used is carefully linked to the text. In this way,Thomson writes about the exact benchmark episodes that the reader is able to observe. David Thomson's evocative, unflinching prose and profound understanding of what makes film an art form identify him as one of the great film writers of our time, making it likely that Moments that Made the Movies will be widely viewed as an important classic on the subject of international cinema.
9780500516416 English 0500516413 In his first fully illustrated work, David Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series of moments--which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery--from seventy-two films across a 100-year-plus span. An indispensable counterpart to both his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film (called "a miracle" by Sight and Sound) and his lauded recent history, The Big Screen ("a pungently written, brilliant book" according to David Denby), Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inextricably tied to the text. Thomson s moments range from a set of Eadweard Muybridge s pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic--Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, The Red Shoes--to the unexpected--The Piano Teacher, Burn After Reading. The excitement of Momentss dynamic visuals will be matched only by the discussion it incites in film circles, as readers revisit their own list of memorable moments and then re-experience the films--both those included on Thomsons list and from their own life--as never before. Moments That Made the Movies will undoubtedly reaffirm Thomsons place as--according to John Banville--"the greatest living writer on the movies.", 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. Hailed by John Banville as the greatest living writer on the movies, David Thomson takes readers on an unprecedented visual journey. His moments range from a set of Eadward Muybridges 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 authors accompanying narrative. David Thomsons evocative, unflinching prose and profound understanding of what makes film and art form identify him as one of the great film writers of our time, making it likely that Moments that Made the Movies will be widely viewed as an important classic on the subject of international cinema., In this new work, Thomson writes between 500 and 1000 words each about what he regards as crucial moments in over 75 films from all over the world, each illustrated by multiple images.This is a critical film history in which, rather than being an illustrative afterthought, the imagery used is carefully linked to the text. In this way,Thomson writes about the exact benchmark episodes that the reader is able to observe. David Thomson's evocative, unflinching prose and profound understanding of what makes film an art form identify him as one of the great film writers of our time, making it likely that Moments that Made the Movies will be widely viewed as an important classic on the subject of international cinema.