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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Maybe a book for more of a specialistBy Robert SlocumOh my goodness what a lot of movies (and television). I knew about DW Griffiths. Ive seen M and TRIUMPH OF WILL. The first hundred pages went along swimmingly for me.Then I pretty much skipped the next hundred as Thomson takes us into 1930s Hollywood and French and English films I never heard of. Im sure I skimmed another hundred pages out of the remaining three hundred. I go to fewer movies than average. I suppose. If you were only half-literate in Edouard Manet. say. you could be swept along on a book about him with the help of some reproductions of his paintings. but not so much in a book about movies.Sometimes you get a few pages about one film. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. But nothing about the story of Hawks and Hemingway agreeing that Hawks would do a film on Hemingways (self-chosen) WORST novel. Or maybe Hawks chose it.Casablanca. Godfather. Chinatown. Spielberg. Lucas. I LOVE LUCY. These and others also get more than drive-by treatment. Thomson writes some wonderful passages. For example. he has a few great paragraphs about whether violence in the movies has any responsibility for violence in the culture. Hes a philosopher of the meaning of the viewer in the dark. the screen. He makes some great observations about Ronald Reagan and politics. (FYI he calls Reagan a bit player. but the guy had the first million dollar contract. according to a book I read about his screen career. This was before the war. His best performance--I dont mean being president!--is in KINGS ROW. Worth checking out.)Anyway a mixed bag. and an unusual experience to be skimming over prose that is just fine except you havent got the reference point. The Wall Street Journal had a review of this book that tempted me. Im not sure you can call this a book for a general audience.5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. One of the best critical histories of the motion picture artsBy Alan C DuncanThe BIG SCREEN is one of the best critical histories of the motion picture arts I have read. Mr. Thomson loves his subject. but he is not in love with it. This is a history with warts and all. His concept includes all the visual arts from Eadweard Muybridge and the birth of photography to the iPhone. If it can be projected or viewed on a screen. its in this book.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Good but disjointedBy Roger BrooksInteresting. but a hodgepodge not quite chronological and not by theme. Best considered as a collection of essays.
