A Sudden Flicker of Light - David Thomson (hardback) Horror with powerful images that linger

with powerful images that linger in the mind of the viewer

and crew interviews

president and Walter Matthau as a trigger-happy political theorist

cinematographer Bruno Nyutten and others (2003

A Sudden Flicker of Light - David Thomson (hardback) Horror with powerful images that linger'A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of The Movies' by David Thomson (Allen Lane 368 page Hardback) The always interesting and engaging critic returns with a personal assessment of cinema's history. Every flicker of light has its shadow. Thomson shows us how cinema has entranced and transported us, but also profoundly changed us. From the earliest days of the first picture shows to the screens of today, Thomson glories in the great