David Thomson

Photograph by Lucy Gray

About The Author

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.

Books by David Thomson

A Sudden Flicker of Light

A Revisionist History of Movies

By David Thomson
From one of cinema’s wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history.
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