Entertainment & Arts
A noted film critic offers a memoir of growing up in wartime and postwar Britain.
Feb. 1, 2009
Books
‘Try to Tell the Story: A Memoir’ by David Thomson
David Thomson takes a wide view of movies in ‘The Big Screen’
Nov. 16, 2012
As war at its most brutal rears its head, veteran film critic David Thomson’s latest book, ‘The Fatal Alliance,’ wants us to rethink the war-movie genre.
Nov. 10, 2023
In ‘The Story of the Movies,’ the author works to provide an overview of film, an increasingly daunting task as its history grows.
David Thomson might think an actor an ‘unwearying neurotic.’ Or he might pronounce a director the greatest since Orson Welles. As the latest edition of his ‘Biographical Dictionary of Film’ proves, no matter what he thinks, it’s coming from the greatest essayist on the subject. And did we say how much he admires Orson Welles?
May 1, 2005
Movies
Have You Seen . . . ? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films David Thomson Alfred A. Knopf: 1,008 pp., $39.95
Oct. 30, 2008
Thomson, the author of dozens of books including “The Biographical Dictionary of Film,” binges on “Ozark” and Godard but finds “L’Avventura” a drag.
April 15, 2020
Business
Thomson Corp.
May 19, 2000
It is not given to most men to know the manner of their going, but David O.
Oct. 25, 1992