Autor David Thomson

From cinema’s most distinguished and ‘The best writer on film in our time’ (Michael Ondaatje) comes a masterful assessment of the whole sweep of movie history‘The movies traded on the liberation of secret desires―drive that car as fast as you can; turn…

Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, this book tracks the ways in which we were initially enchanted by this mesmerizing imitation of life and let movies - the stories, the stars, the look - show us how to live.

Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in…