"Have You Seen...?": a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films Including Masterpieces, Oddities and Guilty Pleasures (with Just a Few Disasters) [Paperback]

'Have You Seen?, which contains characteristically eccentric assessments of copper-bottomed classics, obscure cult pleasures and interesting disasters, proves to be an absolute delight ... The author's irrepressibly playful approach to criticism runs through this essential volume and helps elevate its status to that of literature.'
-- Irish Times

'Age and experience have not jaded his passion for the wonder of cinema one whit, nor his boundless appetite to consume more of it ... This book will long bear re-reading, teasing readers to see films they have not yet seen, and making them reflect again on those they have' -- Telegraph

'An Oscar-worthy Christmas gift for any film fan'
-- Metro

'Brilliant commentary that combines the idiosyncratic and authoritative as only Thomson can do' -- Molly Haskell

'David Thomson is the world's leading sage about film ... It's a book to have on your reference shelf ... it's hardly been out of my hands for two weeks, and it's a constant source of fascination and pleasure to see what Thomson says about Rear Window or Don't Look Now ... It's like having the most film-literate pal you can imagine sitting beside you in a multiplex, showing off his knowledge, provoking you to agreement or (more likely) fury.' -- John Walsh, Independent

'He's the Man Most Likely To Have Seen Everything ... there is a lot to like about Thomson'
-- Russell Davies, Sunday Times

'One of the great pleasures of cinephilia is reading David Thomson. No one who writes about film is more adroitly encyclopedic or a more skillful provocateur. This huge collection is filled with delights for both the casual reader who wants to discover new and old treasures and for the seasoned cinephile who enjoys having his views challenged and expanded by the keenly analytical Dr. Johnson of the cinema.' -- Joseph McBride

'There's a scepticism in Have You Seen...? that gives a reader a great sense of trust, and a sense of a writer seeing all movies at once, that allows Thomson to go from a gesture to a judgement on the country at large without turning his head. It's not only a new kind of movie book; it's a new kind of conversation.'
-- Greil Marcus

'This book sets the bar. There isn't a more intelligent, insightful and provocative guide to individual movies in the world' -- Nigel Andrews, FT

'Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful ... Thomson's writing is ... full of magical effects ... What Thomson does not know or feel about films is not worth knowing or feeling ... every piece here, pithy and engaged, is like listening to an intelligence so deft and enraptured with its subject that it has become almost musical' -- Nick Lezard, Guardian

'Brilliant commentary that combines the idiosyncratic and authoritative as only Thomson can do'