DAVID THOMSON (FILM CRITIC)

'David Thomson' (born 1941 in London, UK) is a noted film critic in the United States and the author of the lauded ''New Biographical Dictionary of Film''.
Thomson was a teacher of film studies at Dartmouth College and is a regular contributor to ''The New York Times'', ''Film Comment'', ''Movieline'', ''The New Republic'', and Salon.com. As well, he has served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival and wrote the script for the award-winning documentary ''The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind''.
In addition to his ''Biographical Dictionary'', he has also written several biographies (see below), novels ("Suspects" and "Silver Light") and unproduced screenplays (including "Fierce Heat," which was to be produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by Stephen Frears).
David Thomson lives in San Francisco, California with his wife and their two sons. He is not to be confused with David 'Thompson', who is also a film critic.

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Books

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Books

Other books include:

★ ''Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick''

★ ''Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts''

★ ''The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood''

★ ''Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles''

★ ''The Alien Quartet: A Bloomsbury Movie Guide'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 208 pages, 1999, ISBN 1-58234-030-7, as ''The Alien Quartet (Pocket Movie Guide)'', 2000 ISBN 0747551812

External links

★ David Thomson author page at the Random House

★ Nicole Kidman Book Reviews at Metacritic.com

★ Radio interview on "Philosophy Talk"

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