Invite - a Zoom chat with David Thomson

My friendTipu Purkayastha (whom some of you know from our online video discussions andthe WhatsApp group) has set up an event that I’m excited about – a Zoom chatwith the veteran film critic David Thomson on Sunday, March 31, 8.30 pm IST.The “peg” for the conversation: the Sightand Sound greatest-films lists that Thomson and I contributed to a coupleof years ago (and the foolishness + inevitability of list-making moregenerally). But it should be a wider-ranging talk; Tipu will see to that.

 

Thomson hasbeen one of my favourite writers for a couple of decades now, and I usuallykeep his books Have You Seen…?, A Biographical Dictionary of Film,and The Big Screen within easy reach. (I also have strong disagreementswith some of his broader positions, and his views on specific directors likeJohn Ford and Brian DePalma – and I bristled and eye-rolled quite a bit while readinghis entry on Khuda Gawah in Have You Seen...? Not sure I’ll bringany of that up during the talk, though: the man has been very sweet on email.And he is 83.)

 

Save the date, try to make it. Meeting link here.

 

P.S. my Sightand Sound list is here. And David’sis here.

(His list hasat least four films that I could very easily have put in mine if I had made it onanother day, or another time of day. I doubt David would have Sholay orMayabazaar in his, though!)

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