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Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies Valedictorians at the Gate isFrom one of cinema's wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history. David Thomson has been called "the greatest living writer on the movies." Here is a career capstone of sorts a one volume history of film and screens as illuminating and provocative as his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film. In tracing the progress, from the Lumiere Brothers to the Coens, Thomson glories in the great movies, but