Lushly illustrated, compellingly writtenβDavid 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 momentsβwhich his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imageryβfrom seventy-two films across a 100-year-plus span. An indispensable counterpart to both his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film (called βa miracleβ by Sight and Sound) and his lauded recent history, The Big Screen (βa pungently written, brilliant bookβ 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 classicβCitizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, The Red Shoesβto the unexpectedβThe 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 filmsβboth those included on Thomson's list and from their own lifeβas never before. Moments That Made the Movies will undoubtedly reaffirm Thomson's place asβaccording to John Banvilleββthe greatest living writer on the movies.β
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