Wild Excursions: The Life and Fiction of Laurence Sterne

By David Thomson

In Nevada

By David Thomson

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

By David Thomson

America In The Dark: Hollywood And The Gift Of Unreality

By David Thomson

The big screen

By David Thomson

In this triumphant work David Thomson, one of film's greatest living experts and author of "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film", tells the enthralling story of the movies and how they have sha...

Showman: Life of David O. Selznick

By David Thomson

A Biographical Dictionary of Film

By David Thomson

Why Acting Matters

By David Thomson

Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay...

Warner Bros: The Making Of An American Movie Studio

By Thomson, David, David Thomson

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of Americ...

Try to Tell the Story

By David Thomson

David Thomson, one of our most celebrated film writers, gives us a haunting, fascinating memoir about growing up as an only child in wartime England.  He was born in London in the aftermath of the...