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/ 17 October 2009
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.
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/ 7 November 2003
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 his work in television had shown an ability to transform routine magazine programmes with the fresh air of real, awkward lives, writes David Thomson.
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.