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.

Thomson is unique in his field: intellectual, opinionated, informed and funny. So much film criticism is clichéd or unadventurous – he tackles it with a bullwhip, a magnifying glass and a sardonic grin… This book could be his Citizen Kane… This is a book with the learning of an encyclopaedia, the wisdom of a novel and the zingers of a screwball comedy

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.

Thomson is unique in his field: intellectual, opinionated, informed and funny. So much film criticism is clichéd or unadventurous – he tackles it with a bullwhip, a magnifying glass and a sardonic grin… This book could be his Citizen Kane… This is a book with the learning of an encyclopaedia, the wisdom of a novel and the zingers of a screwball comedy

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.

Thomson is unique in his field: intellectual, opinionated, informed and funny. So much film criticism is clichéd or unadventurous – he tackles it with a bullwhip, a magnifying glass and a sardonic grin… This book could be his Citizen Kane… This is a book with the learning of an encyclopaedia, the wisdom of a novel and the zingers of a screwball comedy