The Real Magic
David Sylvester, 8 June 1995
A Biographical Dictionary of Film
by David Thomson.
Deutsch, 834 pp., £25, November 1994,0 233 98859 9 Show More
by David Thomson.
Deutsch, 834 pp., £25, November 1994,
“... now I have taken the view that my ‘Desert Island’ book, if I were asked, would have to be David Thomson’s A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema. First published in 1970, it has just re-appeared as A Biographical Dictionary of Film in a third edition that is revised and considerably enlarged. Despite its titles it is indeed a work of ... ”