David Thomson

Not so long ago, Francis Ford Coppola used to make predictions about the future of cinema. It was going to be "electronic", he promised.

<i>Slumdog Millionaire</i> and <i>The Reader</i>’s Academy Awards expose a long-standing love affair, writes David Thomson.

You can measure the hallucinatory experience of living in the United States according to a range of decisions that don’t matter, writes David Thomson.

By the mid-1960s, John Boorman was a young prospect being watched in the new British film industry. Boorman didn’t go to university, or was ever apprenticed in the theatre. But…

Katharine Hepburn was an actress of substance whose intelligence and rootedness in true American values set her apart from other Hollywood icons, writes David Thomson.