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Lushly illustrated, compellingly writtenDavid Thomson's choice of the key moments in movie history In his first fully illustrated work, David Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series of momentswhich his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imageryfrom seventy-two films across a 100-year-plus span. An indispensable counterpart to both his classic (called a miracle by ) and his lauded recent history, (a pungently written, brilliant book according to David Denby), takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inextricably tied to the text. Thomson?s moments range from a set of Eadweard Muybridge?s pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic, , to the unexpected, .

The excitement of s? dynamic visuals will be matched only by the discussion it incites in film circles, as readers revisit their own list of memorable moments and then re-experience the filmsboth those included on Thomson's list and from their own lifeas never before. will undoubtedly reaffirm Thomson's place asaccording to John Banvillethe greatest living writer on the movies. 200 images in color and black and white