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(0)David Thomson
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film comes an essential work on some of the cinema's finest actors and how they have approached their craft"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2026.
Physical Desc
x, 356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"David Thomson has been called 'the greatest living writer on the movies.' Here is a career capstone of sorts--a one-volume history of film and screens as illuminating and provocative as his classic The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. In tracing the progress of cinema, from the Lumière Brothers to the Coens, Thomson glories in the great movies but admits to increasing unease over what the medium has done to us--promoting fantasy, misleading...