David Thomson (film critic)

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For other persons of the same name, see David Thomson.

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.

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.

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.

[edit] Books

Other books include:

Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick
Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts
The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles
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