A film critic’s new book attacks the medium for diminishing culture. Rarely has David Thomson been more wrong.

David Thomson, best known as a historian and critic of film, has now written a fascinating memoir of growing up in London. It is a multifaceted work, with elements of a rather Hitchcockian, ...

In the introduction to his 1997 collection of essays, "Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts," David Thomson admits to a peculiar affliction. It is one that's easily identifiable to ...

In the epilogue to “The Big Screen,” his one-volume history of the movies, David Thomson warns the reader: “You should be ready for the loss of theaters and video stores….Be prepared for the word ...

David Thompson, having devoted his life to writing about film, suggests the medium has begun to diminish our very nature ...

Film critic Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film ) gives cinephiles and film novices alike a comprehensive yet personal list of 1,000 must-see films. Arranged alphabetically—a ...

Critic David Thomson, author of the essential “Biographical Dictionary of Film,” re-examines a series of moments from 70 films across 100 years in his new book, “Moments That Made the Movies,” which ...

Even the most ardent traditionalists have to acknowledge that vast, sweeping changes are at work within the realm of film culture. The very practice of shooting on actual physical film, not to mention ...

In a recent article published in Sight & Sound just days after the death of Theo Angelopoulos, the director is quoted: “The only place I really feel at home is in a car next to a driver. I don’t drive ...

This past week I happily immersed myself in the latest book by protean film critic/biographer/sometime novelist David Thomson, A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors. Even as he approaches ...

The falling off is apparent at the outset. Burrowing through deep space, the Prometheus is a steroid Lego construction beyond any child’s dreams, whereas the Nostromo was a weary trampship such as ...