Thomson

Books

‘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

Read More
Books

David Thomson loves movies but not what they’ve done for America

Maybe it wasn’t just me, or even just the movies. The shock of empty theaters due to the pandemic and the simultaneous rise of streaming platforms may have caused irreparable damage to cinema’s sustainability and tarnished its luster. The attention that stardom and spectacle attracted was shifting to smaller screens and increasingly fragmented into narrow

Read More