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Author:
David Thomson
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
March 23, 2021
From the film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film comes a new work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film.
What The Reviewers Say
[Thomson] knows pretty well everything there is to know about the art of cinema - though he might question that it is an art - and writes about it with passion, elegance and wit.
... characteristically idiosyncratic.
It is highly personal, unapologetically opinionated, intermittently whimsical, charmingly idiosyncratic and above all deeply impassioned. It reads, at times, like a love letter to the art that has moved Thomson most. Or a eulogy dedicated to a tradition, and indeed a world, he fears may be on the verge of disappearing.
Like much of Thompson’s work, it is a chatty book, written in a breezy style, filled with opinions but short on argument and analysis.
