{"id":3002,"date":"2008-09-25T04:21:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T03:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2012-10-01T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T13:07:58","slug":"interview-david-thomson-on-have-you-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/09\/25\/interview-david-thomson-on-have-you-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: David Thomson on Have You Seen&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1846141761\/026-8457572-8451625?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=1846141761\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3004\" title=\"David Thomson on Have You Seen...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/david-thomson-on-have-you-seen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/davidthomson\">David Thomson<\/a><\/strong> is the author of numerous books on film, most notably <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_Biographical_Dictionary_of_Film\">The Biographical Dictionary of Film<\/a> and has also written for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\">New York Times<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmlinc.com\/fcm\/fcm.htm\">Film Comment<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/movieline.standard8media.com\/\">Movieline<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/\">The New Republic<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/\">Salon<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/\">The Independent<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\">The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His latest is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1846141761\/026-8457572-8451625?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=1846141761\">Have You Seen&#8230;?<\/a><\/strong> and in it he\u00a0writes about 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked \u2013 or in some cases, hated &#8211; from the earliest classics of cinema to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>I recently spoke to David about the book and we had a lengthy discussion including the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How this differs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780375709401\">The\u00a0Biographical Dictionary of Film<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The layout of one film entry per page<\/li>\n<li>How David first got into writing about film<\/li>\n<li>The task of reviewing the films for this book<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0469494\/\">There Will Be Blood<\/a> and the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000759\/\">Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0114369\/\">Se7en<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000399\/\">David Fincher<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0099685\/\">Goodfellas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000217\/\">Martin Scorcese<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The &#8216;golden era&#8217; of the 1970s<\/li>\n<li>Why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0033467\/\">Citizen Kane<\/a> is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/sightandsound\/topten\/poll\/critics.html\">consistently voted the greatest film of all time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Hitchcock\">Alfred Hitchcock<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Films that David has changed his mind on<\/li>\n<li>The state of film criticism<\/li>\n<li>The differences between American and English film culture<\/li>\n<li>What David hopes readers will get out of this book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F41318645&#038;show_artwork=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/David_Thomson_on_Have_You_Seen.mp3]\n<p>You can also download\u00a0our podcast via iTunes by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Have You Seen&#8230;?<\/em><\/strong><em> is out today in the UK and is published by Allen Lane<\/em> (The US version can be <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/U0tyxh\">found here<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/David_Thomson_on_Have_You_Seen.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; Buy <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1846141761\/026-8457572-8451625?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=1846141761\">Have You Seen&#8230;?<\/a><\/strong> at Amazon UK<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/davidthomson\">David Thomson&#8217;s recent articles at The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9781846141768,00.html\">Official page for the book at Penguin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with film writer David Thomson about his book &#8216;Have You Seen&#8230;?&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[529,527,528,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}