Moments That Made the Movies

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Originally published: 2013.
Includes index.
One Woman Standing, Another Sitting And Crossing Legs -- The Passion Of Joan Of Arc -- Sunrise -- Pandora's Box -- Morocco -- M -- 20,000 Years In Sing Sing -- Dodsworth -- Bringing Up Baby -- Gone With The Wind -- The Shop Around The Corner -- The Letter -- Citizen Kane -- The Lady Eve -- Casablanca -- Laura -- Meet Me In St. Louis -- The Big Sleep -- The Red Shoes -- The Third Man -- White Heat -- Sunset Blvd. -- The River -- A Place In The Sun -- Strangers On A Train -- Tokyo Story -- The Band Wagon -- A Star Is Born -- Sansho The Bailiff -- Lola Montès -- The Night Of The Hunter -- The Searchers -- Sweet Smell Of Success -- Touch Of Evil -- Anatomy Of A Murder -- North By Northwest -- Hiroshima Mon Amour -- Psycho -- Jules And Jim -- The Exterminating Angel -- Vivre Sa Vie -- L'Eclisse/The Eclipse -- Pierrot Le Fou -- Mickey One -- Blow-Up -- Point Blank -- Bonnie And Clyde -- The Conformist -- Klute -- The King Of Marvin Gardens -- The Godfather -- Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid -- Don't Look Now -- Celine And Julie Go Boating -- Chinatown -- The Passenger -- Taxi Driver -- The Shining -- The Right Stuff -- Blue Velvet -- When Harry Met Sally -- Hoffa -- One False Move -- Heat -- The Piano Teacher -- 24 -- In The Cut -- Birth -- A History Of Violence -- Infamous -- Zodiac -- Burn After Reading -- The Way Back -- Stories We Tell -- All Is Lost -- Still Photographs, Vancouver.
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 written, brilliant book? according to David Denby), Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inextricably tied to the text. Thomson?s moments range from a set of Eadweard Muybridge?s pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic?Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, The Red Shoes?to the unexpected?The Piano Teacher, Burn After Reading. The excitement of Moments?s dynamic visuals will be matched only by the discussion it incites in film circles, as readers revisit their own list of memorable moments and then re-experience the films?both those included on Thomson's list and from their own life?as never before. Moments That Made the Movies will undoubtedly reaffirm Thomson's place as?according to John Banville??the greatest living writer on the movies.?

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