Wed Nov 17 06:37:29 2010 UTClccn-n50-12250World War, 1939-1945--Children--Great BritainFilm critics--United States0.420.540.69David_Thomson_(film_critic)n 50012250oca00047740aThomson, David,1941-lccn-n50-43314Brando, Marlonlccn-n86-828420Cammell, Donaldlccn-n50-7286Selznick, David O.1902-1965lccn-n79-18425Welles, Orson1915-1985lccn-no97-48514Kidman, Nicole1967-dtelccn-n50-5591Scott, Robert Falcon1868-1912lccn-n81-17250Plummer, Christophernrtlccn-n78-19719Hinton, David B.1950-drtlccn-no2007-88509ebrary, Inclccn-n79-73616Sterne, Laurence1713-1768Thomson, David1941-Thomson, David1941-100Western storiesNoir fictionBeatty, Warren,--1937-AntarcticaDiscovery and exploration, BritishBritish Antarctic ("Terra Nova") ExpeditionScott, Robert Falcon,--1868-1912West (U.S.)Criticism, interpretation, etc.Motion pictures--Social aspectsPersonal narratives--EnglishGreat BritainChildrenFilm criticsFathers and sonsWorld War (1939-1945)California--Los Angeles--HollywoodMotion picture actors and actresses--BiographyAdventure storiesMotion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.Sterne, Laurence,--1713-1768Novelists, EnglishDramaKidman, Nicole,--1967-Pacific AreaPrisonersWomen piratesChina--Hong KongPiratesAustraliaIllegal arms transfersFeature filmsVideo recordings--for the hearing impairedMotion pictures--BiographyManners and customsNevadaSelznick, David O.,--1902-1965Welles, Orson,--1915-1985California--Los AngelesTravelFictionDictionariesThomson, David,--1941-ActorsMotion picture industryBiography--DictionariesMotion picture producers and directorsHistoryMotion picture actors and actressesMotion picturesUnited StatesBiography1941196719701972197419751976197719781979198019811985198619871988198919901991199219931994199519961997199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009201011287362724448book791.430922pn1998.2ocn439720596ocn4699543785723872462418352ocn049247183sw001527632:lccn-n50-12250Falsebook20020.59Thomson, David

The author returns with old entries updated and 300 new ones--from Luc Besson to Reese Witherspoon--making more than 1,300 in all. In addition to the new "musts," key figures from film history are included.

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"Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years floundering. But Welles floundered so variously, ingeniously, and extravagantly that he turned failure into "a sustaining tragedy - his thing, his song."" "In Rosebud, Thomson follows the wild arc of Welles's career, from the War of the Worlds broadcast to the triumph of Citizen Kane, the mixed triumph of The Magnificent Ambersons, and the strange and troubling movies that followed. Here, too, is the unfolding of the Welles persona - the grand gestures, the womanizing, the high living, the betrayals."--BOOK JACKET.

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A history of the Hollywood film industry explores the ways in which movies, both shape and are shaped by American culture, discusses the contributions of film pioneers, and profiles Hollywood's leading citizens. A magnificent history of Hollywood from the invention of film to the present day, by the everywhere acclaimed David Thomson, who has established himself as the greatest living film critic and historian, the Atlantic Monthly, irreplaceable, the New York Times, and simply the best writer about the movies, San Francisco Chronicle. Now we have his master work, the Whole Equation, which, in his own words, embraces the murder and the majesty, the business statistics and millions of us being moved, the art and the awfulness. It accommodates the artistic careers, the lives of the pirates, the ebb and flow of business, the sociological impact in short, the wonder in the dark, the calculation in the offices, and the staggering impact on America of moving pictures, which is also the thunderous artillery of America unleashed on the world. Thomson tells us how D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin created the first movies of mass appeal. He writes about Louis B. Mayer, who understood the whole equation and reaped the profits. He shows us how David O. Selznick exemplified the vanity and passion that gets memorable movies made; how the movies, offering a sense of common experience, helped Americans through the difficult years of the 1930s and '40s; how and why the quest for the blockbuster changed the industry. He examines the films of Capra, Wilder, Hitchcock, and Spielberg; of Gable, Cagney, Monroe, Crawford, Brando, Bogart, Nicholson, and Kidman; of Irving Thalberg, Lew Wasserman, Harvey Weinstein and scores more. He considers noir films, the blacklist, agents, method acting. He tells us the stories behind the Godfather, Chinatown, and Jaws. And he follows the money, a trip essential to understanding Hollywood at its most thrilling and most disappointing. David Thomson has given us a one volume history of Hollywood that is as well one of the most brilliant, most insightful, entertaining, and illuminating books ever written on American film.

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"David O. Selznick, the legendary producer and maker of Gone With the Wind, is brilliantly portrayed in this full-scale biography by the first writer to be given complete access to Selznick's voluminous and revealing papers - everything from script notes, production reports, and contract memos, to letters rich in intrigue, gambling accounts, and financial records. No other Hollywood giant ever had so much to say; no other was brave and reckless enough to leave so much on the record." "Selznick was the most charming, best-read, most insanely workaholic (and most easily diverted), most talented, arrogant, hopeful, amorous, insecure, and self-destructive of all the geniuses of American moviemaking. His story is the history of the picture business, from immigrant nerve to cafe society. It is, as well, the story of the chronic romantic who married first the princess of the kingdom (Irene, daughter of Louis B. Mayer) and then a young beauty - Jennifer Jones - whom he made a princess." "Around him was a cast of vivid supporting players: his father, Lewis J., who made and lost fortunes in silent films; his two brothers - Myron, a pioneering (and boozing) agent, and Howard, whose mental condition overshadowed the rest of the family; Irene, David's scourge and his last comfort, as well as the person who taught him about power in Hollywood; Jock Whitney, fabulously rich, a great friend to David, and crazy about the movies; George Cukor; Alfred Hitchcock; Orson Welles; Vivien Leigh; Alexander Korda; William Paley; Ben Hecht; and John Huston." "We see Selznick making such films as What Price Hollywood?, King Kong, David Copperfield, A Star is Born, Rebecca, Since You Went Away, Spellbound, Duel in the Sun, Portrait of Jennie, The Third Man, and A Farewell to Arms. And we are given the fullest possible account of the chaos, good fortune, folly, and glory of the making of Gone With the Wind.".

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A portrait of Nicole Kidman chronicles her life on- and offscreen, describing how she has changed throughout her career, examining her personal decisions about her life, and analyzing what celebrity means in the life of an actress.

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While serving time in a Hong King prison in 1927, Anatole Doultry saves the life of a Chinese prisoner whose employer is Madame Lai Choi San, a beautiful and powerful Asian gangster who will make him wealthy if he will join her in an act of piracy.

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Juxtaposing the fanciful and the fabulous, the old favorites and the forgotten, this sweeping collection presents the films David Thomson offers in response to the question he gets most often--"What should I see?" This new book is a generous history of film and an enticing critical appraisal written with as much humor and passion as historical knowledge. Not content to choose his own top films (though they are here), Thomson has created a list that will surprise and delight--and send you to your best movie rental service.

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A meeting between a young museum curator and an eighty year old self taught photographer begins a friendship that enables us to look back through the silver light to re-examine what was once called "The Wild West."

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In "The Moment of Psycho," film critic David Thomson situates "Psycho" in Alfred Hitchcock's career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson brilliantly demonstrates how Hitchcock's creation represented all America wanted from a film--and still does.

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Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.

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"The life of [Chinese] Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval within and without the walls of the Forbidden City"--Container.

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Bette Davis was the commanding figure of the great era of Hollywood stardom, with a drive and energy that put her contemporaries in the shade. She played queens, jezebels, and bitches; she could out-talk any male costar; she warred with her studio, Warner Bros., worked like a demon, got through four husbands, was nominated for seven Oscars, and--no matter what--never gave up fighting. This is her story.--Amazon.con.

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One of the most celebrated film critics and historians presents the story of his first 18 years, growing up an only child in south London in the 1940s and 1950s. Romantic, restrained, and tautly written, "Try to Tell the Story" is a haunting and unsentimental look at the fragility of family relationships.

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