Tom Shone

{{short description|American film critic and writer|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Tom Shone''' is a film critic and writer. He was educated in the UK and went to Varndean VIth form college in Brighton, Sussex. He was the ''Sunday Times'' film critic from 1994 to 1999 and has written for ''Vogue'', ''Slate'', the ''New Yorker'', the ''New York Times'' and ''The Guardian''.<ref>{{cite tweet|user=Tom_Shone|author=Tom Shone|number=337247049131110400|date=22 May 2013|title=As of 12pm May 22 I have abjured all allegiance to foreign potentates and princes}}</ref>

He is the author of ''Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer'', published in 2004 by Simon & Schuster.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Nayman |first=Adam |year=2005 |title=Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer |journal=Film Comment |volume=41 |issue=1 |page=77}}</ref> The book is an analysis of the Hollywood blockbuster phenomenon driven chiefly by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas in the 1970s, based on interviews with these and other filmmakers. Shone's first novel, ''In the Rooms'' was published in the U.K. by Hutchinson on July 2, 2009, and in the U.S. by St Martin's Press in 2011. He also wrote the books ''Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective''<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gravel |first=Jean-Philippe |year=2015 |title=Panorama de carrière |journal=Ciné-Bulles |volume=33 |issue=2 |page=56}}</ref> and ''Woody Allen: A retrospective'', published in 2014 and 2015.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Thompson |first=Symeon |year=2016 |title=Imagining the world |journal=Quadrant |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=82–85}}</ref>

Shone collaborated with Christopher Nolan for an in-depth look at the filmmaker's work, called ''The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan'' (2020).<ref name="NolanVar">{{cite web |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/597562/the-nolan-variations-by-tom-shone/ |title=The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan |publisher=penguinrandomhouse.com |access-date=14 September 2020}}</ref> ''Library Journal'' wrote in their review that "this is the definitive word on Nolan and a must for film buffs."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.libraryjournal.com/?reviewDetail=the-nolan-variations-the-movies-mysteries-and-marvels-of-christopher-nolan |title=The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan |publisher=Library Journal |access-date=14 September 2020}}</ref> Neal Gabler called the book "intelligent, illuminating, rigorous, and highly readable. The very model of what a filmmaking study should be. Essential reading for anyone who cares about Nolan or about film for that matter."<ref name="NolanVar"/>

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==External links== *Blog: https://tomshone.blogspot.com/

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