Moments That Made the Movies

"Cinema history cloaked as a coffee-table showpiece." -San Francisco Chronicle

In his first fully illustrated work, David Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series of moments-which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery-from seventy-two films across a 100-year-plus span. An indispensable counterpart to both his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film (called "a miracle" by Sight and Sound) and his lauded recent history, The Big Screen ("a pungently writ...