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Thomson blogs. It's like reading GR, which is both good, bad and that's enough for now. I did not finish reading 1,000 reviews, but I did abt 200. So far. Thomson has written film revs for The Guardian and The New Republic that I've admired, so his effort to rival The Kael (and her "5001 Nights at th......more

Everybody loves a list. The American Film Institute, for example, gets a couple of TV specials every year out of listing the 100 best movies in some genre or other. And every film critic in the country is annually obligated to come up with a list of the top ten movies of the year. But a list of 1,000......more

David Thomson enjoys an enormous reputation as a film critic, fed, above all, by his Biographical Dictionary of Film, voted the best film book ever by a panel of his peers in Sight and Sound. Its perhaps telling then that he has chosen to complement that with a book of similar size, this time dedica......more

David Thomson, Have You Seen...?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films (Knopf, 2008) I am enough of a film geek that I have a favorite critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum. He's witty, acerbic, and all too clear-eyed (enough to make an amateur like me wonder where I, or he, has gone so horribly wrong on cert......more

Certainly one of the best of its kind. I found I had to keep pen and paper nearby to keep a list of all the things I needed to see and hadn't. His attention to detail, from production and studio details to set design to minor cast members is uncanny. The other fascinating thing is his lack of attach......more