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There are few greater film lovers than David Thomson who, over fifty years, has built a reputation as one of the wisest and most penetrating voices on the art form. But every flicker of light has its shadow. In this profound reckoning, Thomson confronts the dark side of the movies – responsible for creating an alternate reality and fantasyland that has only deepened the isolation and disconnection of our society over the course of a century. Thomson explores the high and low points of film history with his usual brilliant insight – sharp and arresting readings of movies from Metropolis to Rear Window to The Godfather can be found in these pages. But he also shows the ways in which our love of voyeurism and villainy, and the passivity which the movies further engender, have led to a coarsening not just of a medium, but of the larger culture, including our political life.
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Coppola – The Godfather. Spielberg – Jaws. Lucas – Star Wars. This is story of the most successful group of friends in the history of cinema and how they reshaped it forever. ‘The Last Kings of Hollywood’ tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema. Along the way, Coppola directed The Godfather, then the highest-grossing film of all-time, until Spielberg surpassed it with Jaws – whose record Lucas broke with Star Wars, which Spielberg surpassed again with E.T. By the early 1980s, they were the richest, best-known filmmakers in the world, each with an empire of their own. ‘The Last Kings of Hollywood’ chronicles their rise, their dreams and demons, their triumphs and their failures.
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Animation is a global artform, and ‘The Animation Atlas’ is your essential guide to this exciting, expansive world. From Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham, authors and hosts of the ‘Ghibliotheque’ podcast, comes this whistle-stop tour through animated film history.
