This pocket book details many different aspects of the Alien films - the different directors, the making of the films, the themes, the actors, the tensions on the set, indeed everything anyone could possibly want to know about them.

A delicate, lyrical picture of a gentle pre-war society, of Irish history and troubled Anglo-Irish relations, and of a delightful family. This story reverberates with the enchantment of falling in love and with the desolation of bereavement.

This memoir of David Thomson's childhood in Scotland won the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction in 1988. Set in the 1920s, it recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle classes. The town has witnessed many of the triumphs and tragedies of Scottish history, and these are recalled here. But the book also charts the author's formative years, during which, whilst playing rugby, he suffered an eye injury which nearly blinded him, and shaped his whole future.

David Thomson set himself the task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked - or in some cases, abhorred. This title is crammed with great love stories, westerns, musicals, war stories, comedies, and dramas.

Tells the story of the movies and how they have shaped us. Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, this title tracks the ways in which we were initially enchanted by this mesmerizing imitation of life and let movies - the stories, the stars, the look - show us how to live.

* 'A History of Hollywood, Its Money and Dreams - and what it did to us'

The excitement ofMomentss? dynamic visuals will be matched only by the discussion it incites in film circles, as readers revisit their own list of memorable moments and then re-experience the films--both those included on Thomson's list and from their own life--as never before. Moments That Made the Movies will undoubtedly reaffirm Thomson's place as--according to John Banville--"the greatest living writer on the movies."

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.