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Have You Seen...?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films By David Thomson Knopf; 1,007pp...
...maybe all critics, or possibly just people who like things) that makes them susceptible to the lure of lists. Top Ten Films of All Time, Top 14 Movie Villains, Top 25 Serbian Horror Flicks-the combinations are endless. In his latest, Have You Seen...?, film critic and historian David Thomson, author of the singular The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, delivers a binding-busting list of one thousand flicks you need to check out. Not that he likes-or even respects-all of these movies. Rather, he writes, "This is a book created to meet the question frequently asked...
Three Harvard professors are likely to win a Nobel Prize next week, according to a Thomson Reuters’ annual prediction released Wednesday. The list of 22 likely laureates includes professor of chemistry Charles M. Lieber, professor of genetics Gary Ruvkun of Harvard Medical School, and professor of economics Martin S. Feldstein. Thomson Reuters has generated lists of probable winners since 1989, using a methodology that predominately relies upon the researcher’s number of “high impact papers” and total citation counts, according to their Web site. In addition to this quantitative data, Thomson...
What do you think of Tina Fey's impression of Sarah Palin? -Katherine Thomson, New York CityOh, my God. It was so perfect. She really is an incredible actress. She came into 30 Rock having done the news segment on Saturday Night Live and some writing, and the more she goes out there on the ice, the better for her, because she can do just about anything...
...feeling of folks whose writing makes me jealous: Ferguson, Agee, Robert Warshow, Sarris, Kael, Richard T. Jameson, J. Hoberman - the best weekly film critic today, and the one who drank deepest at the Farber font - and, of the new guys, Ed Gonzalez, and honorary adoptive American, David Thomson...