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In 1975, David Thomson became that rare thing, a cult movie critic, when he published his Biographical Dictionary of.The American Thomson has been changed by emigration.

In 1975, David Thomson became that rare thing, a cult movie critic, when he published his Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema. He described it (jokily? nervously?) as "the enormous, chronic, and purposeless expression of its author's obsession" and wondered whether it shouldn't have been called "Ten Thousand Hours in the Dark". Thomson was an obscure British academic who had never been to America.

David Thomson (born 18 February 1941) is a British film critic and historian based in the United States and the . Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts (1998).

David Thomson (born 18 February 1941) is a British film critic and historian based in the United States and the author of more than 20 books. The Alien Quartet: A Bloomsbury Movie Guide (Bloomsbury Publishing, 208 pages, 1999, ISBN 1-58234-030-7, as The Alien Quartet (Pocket Movie Guide), 2000.

If most film critics write about movies, David Thomson creates their literary counterpart with essays that are as dazzling, haunting, and moving as the pictures they discuss. In this bravura new collection, the Esquire columnist trains his eye on Hollywood's ghosts, exploring their tendency to rise from the grave or descend from the screen to intimately haunt our lives. Thomson conjures up Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo, Jack Nicholson in Chinatown, and Cary Grant in any of the pictures where he makes every scene look like a lucky accident.

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histories of Hollywood ( Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts, The Big Screen ).

Thomson’s supremely literate and maverick sensibility has informed 20-odd books over five decades, ranging from novels ( Suspects ) and biographies (David Selznick, the Warner brothers) to overwrought odes to actors ( Nicole Kidman ) and histories of Hollywood ( Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts, The Big Screen ).