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"Definitive and unique. It is impossible to believe that anyone will ever again probe with such patience, eloquence and insight into the life and work of this fascinating monster."
-- Alistair Cooke
"There really is nobody writing about film with the bravura wit and pyrotechnic exhilaration of David Thomson. He is quite simply our smartest, hippest film critic. With boundless civility and grace, Thomson chips away at the scorpion sting of Welles's own nature to reveal the rosebud itself; all duality and thorny contradiction. Falstaff and Macbeth and salesman of vin ordinaire, as comfortable with Winston Churchill as he was working the groundlings in Vegas. In other words -- a man of the twentieth century. By the end, what emerges is not just Thomson's Orson, but a much broader picture of the hard black rules of mercantile Hollywood, where certain kinds of hunger are considered unforgivable."
-- Jon Robin Baitz
"Rosebud is the biography Orson Welles has always deserved. Mad, sad, skeptical, admiring, romantic, realistic, it is as contradictory, as troubling, as hypnotically stylish as the man himself. And it applies to this life the one quality that was not brought to its living -- critical acuity."
-- Richard Schickel
"Orson Welles is film history's most fascinating larger-than-life figure and, in David Thomson, he has at last found a biographer to equal the spell he continues to cast. Thomson is an expert: an expert storyteller, critic, thinker, investigator and observer of the all-too-human landscape. Rosebud is as wickedly funny as it is eloquent and perceptive, and is enriched by two gifts Welles would have envied -- common sense and a stern, but forgiving heart."
-- Steven Bach
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year"Easily the best book on Orson Welles." --The New YorkerOrson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years floundering. But Welles floundered so variously, ingeniously, and extravagantly that he turned failure into "a sustaining tragedy"--his thing, his song. Now the prodigal genius of the American cinema finally has the biographer he deserves. For, as anyone who has read his novels and criticism knows, David Thomson is one of our most perceptive and splendidly opinionated writers on film.In Rosebud, Thomson follows the wild arc of Welles's career, from The War of the Worlds broadcast to the triumph of Citizen Kane, the mixed triumph of The Magnificent Ambersons, and the strange and troubling movies that followed. Here, too, is the unfolding of the Welles persona--the grand gestures, the womanizing, the high living, the betrayals. Thomson captures it all with a critical acumen and stylistic dash that make this book not so much a study of Welles's life and work as a glorious companion piece to them."Insightful, controversial, and highly readable--Rosebud is biography at its best." --Cleveland Plain Dealer Orson Welles, the prodigal genius of American cinema, finally gets the biography he deserves. David Thomson tells the story of the boy genius who became a legend with "Citizen Kane" and then spent the next 40 years floundering--but floundering so interestingly and gloriously that failure became an integral part of the Welles legend. 69 b&w photos throughout. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780679772835
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Book Description Condition: New. London-born David Thomson graduated from Dulwich College and the London School of Film Technique. He has taught film studies at Dartmouth College, is on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival, and is a regular contributor to the Boston Gl. Seller Inventory # 898446608