{"product_id":"9780141020754-have-you-seen","title":"'Have You Seen...?'","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters)\u003cbr\u003eLooks at a century of cinema. This title is the author's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from \"Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein\" to \"Zabriskie Point\", from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Thomson's \u003ci\u003e'Have You Seen?' - A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films\u003c\/i\u003e is a quirky, idiosyncratic and hugely entertaining look at a century of cinema.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  This is veteran film writer David Thomson's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from \u003ci\u003eAbbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein \u003c\/i\u003eto\u003ci\u003e Zabriskie Point\u003c\/i\u003e, from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters. The result is probably the most enjoyable film book you will ever read (and you'll never think about \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Music\u003c\/i\u003e in the same way again). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Delightful . it's like having the most film-literate pal you can imagine sitting beside you in a multiplex' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'A joy . he's incapable of writing a boring sentence' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'This book sets the bar. There isn't a more intelligent, insightful and provocative guide to individual movies in the world' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Every reader's simple instinct will be to plunge into the heart of it' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'A dazzlingly authoritative treat . crammed with insight and epigram' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Eccentric, brilliant, scholarly, perverse, witty, egocentric and infuriating, sometimes all at once' \u003cbr\u003e  Philip French\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'He enrages, exasperates, but never leaves one indifferent' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDavid Thomson \u003c\/b\u003eis, among many other things, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Biographical Dictionary of Film\u003c\/i\u003e, now in its fourth edition. His recent books include a biography of Nicole Kidman, \u003ci\u003eFan\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTan\u003c\/i\u003e (a novel written in collaboration with Marlon Brando) and \u003ci\u003eThe Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40942964899937,"sku":"9780141020754","price":20.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32393992.jpg?v=1737221636","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141020754-have-you-seen","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}