David Thomson

Winston Churchill understood the power of films, but the true extent of his use of cinema as a propaganda tool is rarely explored. In 1934, one ...

For the first time one of Hollywood’s greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, ...

Giant of cinema, the embodiment of creation, Orson Welles is the man who reinvents the film language at 24-years old. Who is hidding behind this ...

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 film “Notorious.”

A documentary analyzing the surrealist elements of the film Spellbound, and the work made by Salvador Dalí in that film.

An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage ...

In this documentary short, film historian David Thomson and critic Molly Haskell analyze the themes of Howard Hawks’s 1940 film “His ...

After the birth of her first baby turn’s her husband’s well-ordered existence upside down and forces him to act in response to the ...

Matias meets Violeta, his cousin one morning in Madrid at the Plaza de Opera. He is twenty-five. She is 18. He’s a divorced journalist ...