David Thomson History of movie directors

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Thomson's misgivings about Vertigo - 'morbid' !? A study of dizzying obsessive love where the usually amiable Jimmy Stewart transformed - rendered with cinematography and a score that swirl - yet Thomson prefers set-bound, voyeuristic Rear Window? And I did find Thomson's Dictionary often dismissive of emotionalist directors I admired eg Visconti and Schlesinger. His short shrift of John Ford angered many though that wouldn't be why. But some interesting generalisitions here.