Books on Cinema

David Thomson is a British film historian and critic. Regarded by some as the greatest living writer on film, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film is his most famous work. Voted in 2010, by the British Film Institute, as the best film book, and defended by respected film critic Andrew Sarris as the fifth most important on film criticism, its various editions over the years have proved to be important reference books. As the title points out, it consists on the organization of a series of personalities related to cinema, accompanied by a brief biography, built entirely on Thomson's subjectivity, whose writing may prove laudatory or destructive, long or short, not always eloquent. In our view, what he writes about Strange Days ("one of the loudest bad films ever made", as he puts) is poorly developed and shockingly reduced, since he completely disdains to refer the incredible work of long and subjective takes or the dystopian and almost prophetic vision that th...