‘A Sudden Flicker of Light’ review by David Thomson – a brilliantly eccentric history of films | film books
FILM critic, historian and author of over 40 books, David Thomson is back with another three-hour free jazz solo on the subject of the films, though this is a performance delivered with the ecstatic enthusiasm of a big band leader from the 1940s. He is as brilliant, eccentric, thrilling and attention-grabbing as ever. Incidentally, by