A Light in the Dark
- Author David Thomson
- Narrator Charles Armstrong
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 7 hours and 2 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Films, cinema.
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What to expect
David Thomson's brilliant A Light in the Dark personalises each chapter through an individual: Jean Renoir, Howard Hawks, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Jane Campion, Stephen Frears and Quentin Tarantino. Through these characters (and other directors not mentioned here), David Thomson relates an imaginative new history of a medium that has changed the world.
Critics Review
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It took over my life for two days. It is a summary of cinema and a requiem. Love and sadness. A prodigious masterwork.
John Boorman, director of DELIVERANCE and HOPE AND GLORY -
Compulsive reading: thoughtful and thought-provoking in equal measure. David Thomson’s knowledge is comprehensive and his response to all films humane and entirely uncorrupted by the conventional hagiography of so much writing about film. He’s engagingly unafraid of challenging received opinion
Richard Eyre -
David Thomson has spent his life thinking hard and deep about cinema, and so he’s uniquely placed to write this lovely, brutal book about the glory of being a film-maker and vainglory of being an auteur
David Hare -
Fizzing . . . It has that sense of live debate that’s so inimical to social media’s village green . . . Invaluable
Sight & Sound -
With this dynamic book, Thomson is big enough to follow the cry of “action!” wherever it leads
Sunday Times -
Forensic and stimulating . . . There is much new thinking, taking into account changes in both film criticism and society
The i, A Book of the Year
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