'Have You Seen...?'
  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141020754
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1024
  • RRP: $49.99

'Have You Seen...?'

a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters)

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'Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful . . . What Thomson does not know or feel about films is not worth knowing or feeling' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

This is veteran film writer David Thomson's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters. The result is probably the most enjoyable film book you will ever read (and you'll never think about The Sound of Music in the same way again).
  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141020754
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1024
  • RRP: $49.99
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About the author

David Thomson

David Thomson was born in India in 1914 to Scottish parents, but grew up in Scotland and Derbyshire. After the period described in Woodbrook he developed a career in writing and at the BBC. He died in 1988.

Also by David Thomson

Woodbrook
Sleeping With Strangers
The Big Screen
Try to Tell the Story
Ingrid Bergman (Great Stars)
Bette Davis (Great Stars)
Gary Cooper (Great Stars)
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Praise for 'Have You Seen...?'

Delightful ... the world's leading sage about film ... It's like having the most film-literate pal you can imagine sitting beside you in a multiplex

John Walsh, Independent

This book sets the bar. There isn't a more intelligent, insightful and provocative guide to individual movies in the world

Nigel Andrews, Financial Times

A dazzlingly authoritative treat ... crammed with insight and epigram

Geoff Dyer, Observer

Eccentric, brilliant, scholarly, perverse, witty, egocentric and infuriating, sometimes all at once

Philip French, Time Out

A treasure trove for film buffs ... there is probably no finer contemporary writer on what makes the movies so unmissable

Allan Hunter, Herald