A Sudden Flicker of Light
A Revisionist History of the Movies
$50.99
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2026
Summary
From cinema’s most distinguished historian and critic comes a masterful assessment of the whole sweep of movie history.
“The movies traded on the liberation of secret desires—drive that car as fast as you can; turn your humble abode into a palace; conquer all the mean spirits in the world; be as free and winsome as the Tramp yet as rich as Charlie … Every lowlife can be a Corleone.”
Every flicker of light has its shadow. In this masterful reassessment of the whole arc of movie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241843345 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241843340 |
| Author: | David Thomson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 570g |
| Dimensions: | 242mm x 164mm x 33mm |
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The best writer on film in our time – Michael OndaatjeWhat Thomson does not know or feel about films is not worth knowing or feeling * Guardian *A giant in the world of film criticism * The Times *One of the liveliest, most literate, productive, provocative and daring movie critics * Observer *The greatest living writer on the movies – John Banville
About The Author
David Thomson
David Thomson is the author of more than twenty books, including biographies of David O. Selznick and Orson Welles, and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. His writing and his books have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, Slate, and many more. He lives in San Francisco.
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