in conversation with Mark Feeney
discussing Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances(Knopf, $30), a fascinating look at some of the cinema’s finest actors and how they approach their craft.
Through intimate anecdote, humor, and the insight born of a lifetime watching and analyzing film, Thomson explores the real reasons why we go to the movies and looks at how they influence our lives.
DAVID THOMSON is the author of more than twenty-five books, including How to Watch a Movie, The Whole Equation, and biographies of Orson Welles and David O. Selznick.
About the Moderator
As writer, reviewer, and editor, MARK FEENEY covers photography, film, and the arts. With the Globe since 1979, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing in 1994 and won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2008. He is the author of Nixon at the Movies: A Book About Belief.
