David Thomson, best known as a historian and critic of film, has now written a fascinating memoir of growing up in London. It is a multifaceted work, with elements of a rather Hitchcockian, ...

David Thomson favors close readings over unified field theories. His indispensable Biographical Dictionary of Film approaches movies via individual actors and filmmakers. His opinionated "Have You ...

Rare is the film critic who accesses a movie through hidden doors, off-the-map passageways that most of us lack the internal GPS, let alone the moxie, to locate. With the loss of Pauline Kael and ...

The title of this thin book hints coyly at the obvious to get your attention. Acting matters since, if for no other reason, people watch acting several hours every day. “For some of us, on some days, ...

Call him the stealth critic. David Thomson is a film writer known throughout the world who remains relatively invisible at home, which just happens to be San Francisco - Pacific Heights, to be exact. ...

Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI. Add Preferred Source In the introduction to his 1997 collection of essays, "Beneath Mulholland: ...

The eminent film critic and resident San Franciscan David Thomson was a guest on KQED Public Radio’s Forum show today, talking about his latest book, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies, and other ...

David Thomson is the author of The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film and a book on Nicole Kidman, to be published in September (all from Knopf). He lives ...

As a college student who’d come home in the summer with the goal of screening 100 movies, I arrived back on campus one year and asked a film professor what a match cut was, prompting him to stare at ...