'Have You Seen...?'
a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters)
This is possibly the most entertaining, surprising and enjoyable film book ever written. Thomson set himself the near-foolhardy task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked - or in some cases, abhorred. Some half-million words of funny, vigorous, wayward prose later, we are all the happy beneficiaries of his deranged labour. Always unexpected, never repetitive, 'Have You Seen...?' can be read consecutively - from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein to Zabriskie Point - or dipped into over many years, and it is a masterclass in how to write about films and how to love them. Sometimes Thomson will be inter…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-192658-2
- EAN: 9780141926582
- Produktnummer: 17833485
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 1024 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'910 KB
Über den Autor
David Thomson is, among many other things, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, now in its fourth edition. His recent books include a biography of Nicole Kidman, Fan Tan (a novel written in collaboration with Marlon Brando) and The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood. Born in London, he now lives in San Francisco.A very personal and hugely entertaining look at the greatest films ever made, David Thomson's Have You Seen... offers some of the most moving, perceptive and ridiculous precis of films ever to be put to paper. From being in raptures over Anatahan and utterly nauseated by The Sound of Music, Thomson's witty and informed look at over 1,000 films is the ideal companion to the silver screen.
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