Tom Shone was the film critic of the Sunday Times from 1994 until 1999, when he moved to New York. His articles have appeared in many newspapers and periodicals, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Intelligent Life, Areté and Vogue. He is the author of Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer, In the Rooms and Scorsese: A Retrospective, the last also published by Thames & Hudson. He currently teaches film history and criticism at New York University.

• Introduction • The Early Years • The Hollywood Years • The Director • Take the Money and Run • Bananas • Play it Again, Sam • Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Sex... • Sleeper • Love and Death • Annie Hall • Interiors • Manhattan • Stardust Memories • A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy • Zelig • Broadway Danny Rose • The Purple Rose of Cairo • Hannah and her Sisters • Radio Days • September • Another Woman • Crimes and Misdemeanors • Alice • Shadows and Fog • Husbands and Wives • Manhattan Murder Mystery • Bullets over Broadway • Mighty Aphrodite • Everyone Says I Love You • Deconstructing Harry • Celebrity • Sweet and Lowdown • Small Time Crooks • The Curse of the Jade Scorpion • Hollywood Ending • Anything Else • Melinda and Melinda • Match Point • Scoop • Cassandra’s Dream • Vicky Cristina Barcelona • Whatever Works • You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger • Midnight in Paris • To Rome with Love • Blue Jasmine • Magic in the Moonlight • Conclusion • Filmography

'Shone’s analysis is most piercing … [his] prose has a beauty of its own, abounding in nonchalantly exquisite turns of phrase' - Observer