A Sudden Flicker of Light - David Thomson (hardback) Estonia Chet Baker

Chet Baker

and Jake Gyllenhaal

David Niven and Otto Preminger

- Interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam

A Sudden Flicker of Light - David Thomson (hardback) Estonia Chet Baker'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