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Moments That Made The Movies
David Thomson
Thames & Hudson Inc.
October 2013
On Sale: October 7, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 0500516413
EAN: 9780500516416
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Lushly illustrated, compellingly written—David
Thomson's choice of the key moments in movie
history In his first fully illustrated work,
David Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series
of moments—which his readers will also experience in
beautifully reproduced imagery—from seventy-two films across
a 100-year-plus span. An indispensable counterpart to both
his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film (called
“a miracle” by Sight and Sound) and his lauded
recent history, The Big Screen (“a pungently
written, brilliant book” according to David Denby),
Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour,
where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are
inextricably tied to the text. Thomson̓s moments range from a
set of Eadweard Muybridge̓s pioneering photographs to
sequences in films from the classic—Citizen
Kane, Sunset Boulevard, The Red
Shoes—to the unexpected—The Piano Teacher,
Burn After Reading. The excitement
of Momentss̓ dynamic visuals will be matched only by
the discussion it incites in film circles, as readers
revisit their own list of memorable moments and then
re-experience the films—both those included on Thomson's
list and from their own life—as never before. Moments
That Made the Movies will undoubtedly reaffirm
Thomson's place as—according to John Banville—“the greatest
living writer on the movies.”
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