By David Thomson
ISBN-10: 0307271749
ISBN-13: 9780307271747
David Thomson’s New Biographical Dictionary of movie topped Sight & Sound magazine’s 2010 ballot of foreign critics and writers because the most sensible movie booklet of all time.
Now in its 5th variation, up-to-date, and with greater than one hundred thirty new entries—from Judd Apatow to Lena Horne—the vintage, liked movie ebook is best than ever.
For thirty-five years, David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film has been “fiendishly seductive” (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone), “the most interesting reference publication ever written approximately video clips” (Graham Fuller, Interview), and “not basically an imperative ebook approximately cinema, yet essentially the most absurdly bold literary achievements of our time” (Geoff Dyer, The Guardian). For this variation, Thomson has stated to this point and in a few case recast the biographies, and has extra new ones (Clive Owen, Scarlett Johansson, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Marion Cotillard, for example). The ebook now contains nearly 1,500 entries, a few of them only a smelly paragraph, a few of them numerous thousand phrases lengthy, each a gem.
Here is a smart, infrequent ebook that encompasses the chaos of paintings, leisure, funds, vulgarity, and nonsense that we name the flicks. own, opinionated, humorous, bold, provocative, and passionate, it's the one publication that each filmmaker and movie buff needs to personal, from the fellow David Hare known as “the such a lot stimulating and considerate movie critic now writing.”
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He makes many cameos of loneliness, but these are too often cute snapshots rather than tributes to an intractable condition. But who else in American film provokes such arguments? And if Allen faces a crisis because of his own behavior, we should recollect how smart and resourceful he is. Perhaps his indefatigable unconscious mind knew he needed trouble and disruption. That does not seek to excuse any damage he has done. But suppose real damage could become his subject—as opposed to wisecracks about it?
2001: The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. 2002: Hollywood Ending. 2003: Anything Else. 2004: Melinda and Melinda. 2005: Match Point. 2006: Scoop. 2008: Cassandra’s Dream; Vicky Cristina Barcelona. 2009: Whatever Works. 2010: You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger. “Woody” was the most famous film director in America from the late 1970s onwards, and then a reluctant household name as his famed soul-searching took a banana-skin skid into public scandal. Can he maintain his way of working? Is there funding for films whose budgets have steadily risen, and whose audience has never been large?
Happy days—even if from this moment in time it is easier to have more respect for books. Agee went to Harvard, edited the Advocate, and took up booze and poetry in quantity. He was always a womanizer, and a mess personally, but he found a journalistic voice that lasted for about twenty years. It extended to the text for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), that classic of the rural Depression and hard lives, where Agee’s text went with the photographs of Walker Evans—and in which Evans’s photography shines with a sensuality that Agee delivered personally to some of the poor women.
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