A Sudden Flicker of Light - David Thomson (hardback) Estonia Chet Baker

Chet Baker

- Interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam

and Jake Gyllenhaal

Hong Kong movie studios began to produce hundreds of unauthorised biopics

radio adaptation

A Sudden Flicker of Light - David Thomson (hardback) Estonia Chet Baker'A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of The Movies' by David Thomson (Allen Lane 368 page Hardback) The always interesting and engaging critic returns with a personal assessment of cinema's history. Every flicker of light has its shadow. Thomson shows us how cinema has entranced and transported us, but also profoundly changed us. From the earliest days of the first picture shows to the screens of today, Thomson glories in the great