“We were strangers there in the dark, but fellow pilgrims, and the cinema was a palace for our wondering.”
A departure from my fiction reading, this tale of directors past had a rather unique and interesting format. It feels like a casual conversation with an avid cinephile and that is always something that appeals to me.
Enjoy the journey through one hundred years of cinema through the lens of its leading Directors.
Conversational in tone, yet informative, this one is a nice shorthand for the history of the silver screen.
I particularly enjoyed the way each decade's leaders influence the one to come.
Thomson may describe Bunuel's films as "some of the hardest to write about" but perhaps that demonstrates the power of the flickering image, poetry in motion.
4 out of 5 - a Director is just the Ringmaster of the Circus
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