| David Thomson - Performing Arts - 2012 - 608 pages
The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen—smaller now, but ... | |
| David Thomson - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 306 pages
From the brilliant film historian and critic David Thomson, a book that reinvents the star biography in a singularly illuminating portrait of Nicole Kidman—and what it means ... | |
| David Thomson - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 226 pages
David Thomson, one of our most celebrated film writers, gives us a haunting, fascinating memoir about growing up as an only child in wartime England. He was born in London in ... | |
| David Thomson - Performing Arts - 2009 - 208 pages
It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months. It killed off its star in forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most ... | |
| David Thomson - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 128 pages
"Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, ‘natural' Swedish girl—she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate ... | |
| David Thomson - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 144 pages
"She could look demure while behaving like an empress. Blonde, with eyes like pearls too big for her head, she was very striking, but marginally pretty and certainly not ... | |
| David Thomson - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 149 pages
"Cooper was heroic, of course, in his own mind as much as in his scripts. He was manly, tall, ruggedly handsome. He was a man for a fight." On screen Gary Cooper was the ... | |
| David Thomson - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 144 pages
"Look, I'm hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I don't give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys will give you ... | |
| David Thomson - Performing Arts - 2006 - 418 pages
With the same style and insight he brought to his previous studies of American cinema, acclaimed critic David Thomson masterfully evokes the history of America’s love affair ... | |
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