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Bette Davis by David Thomson
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Great Stars
'She could look demure while behaving like an empress. Blonde, with eyes like pearls too big for her head, she was very striking, but marginally pretty and certainly not beautiful ...But it was her edge that made her memorable - her upstart superiority, her reluctance to pretend deference to others'. Be ...Show more
Gary Cooper by David Thomson
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Great Stars
'Cooper was heroic, of course, in his own mind as much as in his scripts. He was manly, tall, and ruggedly handsome. He was a man for a fight'. On screen he was the ultimate all-American hero: lean, laconic and masculine, a lone sheriff battling his enemies in "High Noon", or a tough individualist in "T ...Show more
"Have You Seen...?" by David Thomson
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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 ...Show more
How to Watch a Movie by David Thomson
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience. Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (now in its sixth edition), David Thomson has ...Show more
Ingrid Bergman by David Thomson
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Great Stars
'Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, 'natural' Swedish girl - she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate of adult romantic expectation'. Adored by millions for her luminous beauty and elegance, at the height of her career Ingrid Berg ...Show more
Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
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 p ...Show more
Moments That Made the Movies by David Thomson
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span. Hailed by John Banville as the greatest living writer on ...Show more
Nicole Kidman by David Thomson
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Could one see a magazine deciding that Julia Roberts or Jennifer Lopez or Angelina Jolie were 'intriguing'? There is something mysterious and not quite settled with Nicole Kidman. That's why David Thomson, one of the world's greatest writers on film, knew he wanted to write about her, because while ther ...Show more
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us by David Thomson
$60.00 NZD
Category: General
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. Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, Thomson tracks the ways in whic ...Show more
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