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Rosebud is a riveting and powerful portrait of the rise and fall of one of Hollywood's greatest innovators - the man who brought us Citizen Kane and then lost himself to obesity, small talk and conjuring tricks on daytime television.
With humour, pace and the twists of a mystery story, acclaimed film critic and writer David Thomson probes the essential questions surrounding Welles, exploring the ferocious energy and demonic intellect behind the boy genius. Challengi

A book that sees Hollywood as an idea, a trick, a religion even that swept the world, a book that knows what the bosses did, and why and how, but which also feels the impact on the mass audiences in the dark auditoriums. There isn't a book that explains - even at a basic level - how the business, the money, of pictures operates. THE WHOLE EQUATION takes the history and describes the grand panorama so that the reader knows how he or she fitted in, along with Bogart, the Marx Brothers and Daryl Za

David Thomson taught film studies at Dartmouth College and served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival. He is a regular contributor to the Independent, the New York Times, Film Comment, Movieline, the New Republic, and Salon, and was the screenwriter on the award-winning documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind. His other books include The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, The Whole Equation: A History of

Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-classes. Nairn has witnessed many of the triumphs and tragedies of Scottish history, and these are recalled with intuitive understanding. But it is also the scene of David Thomson's formative years when he suffered an eye injury which nearly blinded him and shaped his whole future.
Winner of the McVitie's P

Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo-Irish Kirkwoods. In 1932, David Thomson, aged eighteen, went there are a tutor. He stayed for ten years.
This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves - for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupil. In it he builds up a delicate, lyrical picture of a gentle pre-war society, of Irish history

In this triumphant work David Thomson, one of film's greatest living experts and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, tells the enthralling story of the movies and how they have shaped us.
Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Times, Guardian, Observer and Independent BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, Thomson tracks the ways in which we were initially enchanted by t

In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was once a functionary; then an important but not decisive part of an industrial process; then accepted as the person who was and should be in charge, because he was an artist and a hero. But the world has changed. In a nutshell, the change takes the form of a question: Who d

In little more than a century of cinema — Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 — our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was once a functionary; then an important but not decisive part of an industrial process; then accepted as the person who was and should be in charge, because he was an artist and a hero. But the world has changed. In a nutshell, the change takes the form of

Единственное официальное издание, посвященное самому революционному телевизионному проекту, приглашает вас за кулисы сериала ""Во все тяжкие"". Книга знакомит читателей с историями героев и приглашает ""пересмотреть"" эпизоды культового фильма. Эксклюзивные интервью с создателем криминальной драмы Винсом Гиллиганом раскрывают секреты создания сериала, ставшего телехитом. Книга содержит более 300 иллюстраций и является самым полным справочником по телесериалу ""Во все тяжкие"", который по мнению Дэвида Томсона стал не просто грандиозным телевизионным шоу, но и самым значимым проектом 21 века. Впервые на русском языке. Официальное издание, раскрывающее все секреты революционного телевизионного проекта ""Во все тяжкие"". Настоящий подарок для многотысячной аудитории сериала. Книга содержит более 300 иллюстраций и является самым полным справочником по фильму ""Во все тяжкие"", который по мнению Дэвида Томсона стал не просто грандиозным телевизионным шоу, но и самым значимым проектом 21 века.