Moments that made the movies /
David Thomson.
- Revised and updated paperback edition.
- 319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Originally published: 2013. Includes index.
Foreword Introduction Eadweard Muybridge: One Woman Standing, Another Sitting and Crossing Legs The Passion of Joan of Arc Sunrise Pandora's Box M Morocco 20,000 Years in Sing Sing Dodsworth Bringing Up Baby The Shop Around the Corner Gone with the Wind The Letter Citizen Kane The Lady Eve Casablanca Laura Meet Me in St Louis The Big Sleep The Red Shoes The Third Man White Heat The River Sunset Blvd A Place in the Sun Strangers on a Train Tokyo Story The Band Wagon A Star is Born Sansho the Bailiff Lola Montes The Night of the Hunter The Searchers Sweet Smell of Success Touch of Evil Anatomy of a Murder North by Northwest Hiroshima Mon Amour Psycho Jules and Jim The Exterminating Angel Vivre Sa Vie Pierrot le Fou Mickey One Blow Up Point Blank Bonnie and Clyde The Conformist Klute The King of Marvin Gardens The Godfather The Eclipse Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Don't Look Now Celine and Julie Go Boating The Passenger Chinatown Taxi Driver The Shining The Right Stuff Blue Velvet When Harry Met Sally Hoffa Heat The Piano Teacher Birth A History of Violence Infamous Burn After Reading Zodiac Index
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. Thomson?s moments range from a set of Eadweard Muybridge?s 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 Moments?s 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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