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The great movie-lover who fell out of love

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By Christopher Bray
| The Critic Magazine (UK) Verified
This article is taken from the June 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Find our subscription offers here. Midway through David Thomson’s latest book there is a chapter on Orson Welles. No surprise there: Thomson has been writing about movies for almost 60 years, and in almost every book he has published there is at least a section given over to Welles.
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The movie brats who changed popular cinema

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By Christopher Bray
| The Spectator Australia Verified
The Last Kings of Hollywood: The Battle for the Soul of American Cinema Faber, pp.462, 22 For some people it’s Star Wars; for others it’s Jaws or Close Encounters of the Third Kind. For me not a year goes by without watching Chinatown and the first two parts of The Godfather. This urge to repeatedly live through familiar narratives surely starts with bedtime stories; and though it diminishes in early adulthood as we push ourselves out into the world, the habit returns before long.
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Fab four, plus one

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By Christopher Bray
| Prospect Magazine Verified
Here we go again. Back to “Yesterday”. Back to “The Times They Are A-Changin’”. Except: today looks very much like yesterday and those times ain’t a-changed one bit. The pop charts are still dominated by semi-literate two-chord jingles. And no publisher’s list is complete without a book on the artists who, 60 years ago, did most to temporarily challenge that situation: Bob Dylan and the Beatles.
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