David Thomson (born 1941 in London, UK) is a noted film critic in the United States and the author of the lauded New Biographical Dictionary of Film. David Thomson can refer to a number of people: David Thomson, Australian politician David Thomson, film critic David K.R. Thomson, Canadian businessman This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. ... The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (titled A Biographical Dictionary of Film in early editions) is a non-fiction reference book written by film critic David Thomson and originally published in 1975. ...

Thomson was a teacher of film studies at Dartmouth College and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Film Comment, Movieline, The New Republic, and Salon.com. As well, he has served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival and wrote the script for the award-winning documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind. Dartmouth College is a private, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Incorporated as Trustees of Dartmouth College,[6][7] it is a member of the Ivy League and one of the nine colonial colleges founded before the American Revolution. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... The Film Comment is a renowned film journal published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. ... For other uses, see New Republic. ... Salon. ... The New York Film Festival is the one of the United Statess most prestigious film festivals, first held in 1962 in New York. ...

In addition to his Biographical Dictionary, he has also written several biographies (see below), novels ("Suspects" and "Silver Light") and unproduced screenplays (including "Fierce Heat," which was to be produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by Stephen Frears).

David Thomson lives in San Francisco, California with his wife and their two sons. He is not to be confused with David Thompson, who is also a film critic. San Francisco redirects here. ...

Books

Other books include:

• Nicole Kidman (2006)
• Fan Tan (a novel written with marlon brando) (2005)
• The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood (2004)
• Marlon Brando (2003)
• Cinema: Year by Year (Intro only) (DK, 2005)
• Hollywood: A celebration (DK, 2001)
• In Nevada: The Land, The People, God, and Chance (2001)
• The Big Sleep (BFI guide) (2000)
• The Alien Quartet: A Bloomsbury Movie Guide (Bloomsbury Publishing, 208 pages, 1999, ISBN 1-58234-030-7, as The Alien Quartet (Pocket Movie Guide), 2000 ISBN 0747551812
• Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts (1998)
• Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles (1997)
• 4-2 (1996)
• Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick (1993)
• Silver Light (1990)
• Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes (1987)
• Suspects (1985)
• Overexposures: A crisis in American filmmaking (1981)
• America in the Dark: Hollywood and the gift of unreality (1978)
• Scott's Men (reissued in 2002 as Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen) (1977)
• A biographical dictionary of the cinema (1975)
• Wild Excursions: The Life and Times of Lawrence Sterne (1972)
• Hungry as Hunters (1972)
• A Bowl of Eggs (1970)
• Movie Man (1967)

External links

• David Thomson author page at the Random House
• Nicole Kidman Book Reviews at Metacritic.com
• Radio interview on "Philosophy Talk"
• David Thomson at the Internet Movie Database
• Video of David Thomson's talk, How Hollywood Views the Midwest, at the Kansas City Public Library on Nov. 6, 2007.