David Thomson

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  • Eve was quite a lady

    When Barbara Stanwyck's leg pushes up against Henry Fonda's white jacket it is one of the most erotic moments in American film.
    By David Thomson April 18, 2002

  • What's a turn-on?

    I usually dream about women, but today I'm thinking about the sexiest living guys.
    By David Thomson April 11, 2002

  • Inner life

    Production director Richard Sylbert created the erotic spaces in "Chinatown," "The Graduate" and "Carnal Knowledge."
    By David Thomson April 4, 2002

  • The cool one

    Jodie Foster is like Cary Grant -- smart, observant and curious about human nature. Those things together lend a fascinating distance to her charm.
    By David Thomson March 28, 2002

  • Tender moments

    I've been thinking of the opening shot of "Bay of Angels" for the last 40 years.
    By David Thomson March 21, 2002

  • Wondering about Nina

    Is anyone else besides me watching the sexiest thing on television?
    By David Thomson March 8, 2002

  • If looks could kill

    The glance Sherron Watkins gives her ex-boss tells us all we need to know about Enron's sexual politics.
    By David Thomson February 28, 2002

  • Sassy Maggie

    Princess Margaret was the only royal of her day with any sex appeal at all.
    By David Thomson February 21, 2002

  • Mail-order bride

    In "Birthday Girl," Nicole Kidman is confidently sexy playing a Russian femme fatale with trashy clothes, exposed midriff and a lanky insouciance.
    By David Thomson February 15, 2002

  • Hail Halle

    We are looking at one of the more beautiful women on Earth: We know it -- and she knows it.
    By David Thomson January 31, 2002

  • Is that all there is?

    When we lost Miss Peggy Lee we lost a voice that could tunnel right into a listener's heart.
    By David Thomson January 24, 2002

  • Be still my heart

    The old movie stills were often sexier than the movies they were meant to publicize.
    By David Thomson January 17, 2002

  • "Iris"

    This film about old people, genius, love and light just might be a masterpiece.
    By David Thomson January 10, 2002

  • Tanya's chili

    In "Touch of Evil" Welles made the aging Dietrich into the quintessential femme fatale.
    By David Thomson December 20, 2001

  • Hold your fire

    I come not to bury Julia Roberts -- she's doing a good job of that herself in "Ocean's 11."
    By David Thomson December 13, 2001

  • Introducing ... Julia Roberts?

    There is a new Julia, and she's less sexy than lean, tight and anxious.
    By David Thomson December 6, 2001

  • Harry Potter doesn't get "Blue Velvet"

    The boy has no profound psychosexual life, which keeps the film from being dangerous -- and important.
    By David Thomson November 29, 2001

  • Shaving Mrs. Coen

    In "The Man Who Wasn't There" it's mostly the great Frances McDormand who isn't there.
    By David Thomson November 15, 2001

  • Come in, Kiefer

    The new series "24" brings back the kind of sexuality Bogart and Mitchum had, back when.
    By David Thomson November 8, 2001

  • Joan dearest

    Crawford and Jackie Cooper did more than play badminton.
    By David Thomson November 2, 2001

  • Ripping yarns

    If you are intrigued by the Jack the Ripper tale, go ahead and see the film "From Hell." But the book "The Women of Whitechapel" is better.
    By David Thomson October 26, 2001

  • Two blonds

    "Mulholland Drive" will probably never be understood, but it can be experienced for the haunting, sexy dream that it is.
    By David Thomson October 18, 2001

  • "Late Night Shopping"

    Sometimes life is just keeping death at bay.
    By David Thomson October 11, 2001

  • The numbers

    We are wise enough to believe in our unstoppable horniness.
    By David Thomson October 4, 2001

  • She lost it at the movies

    As it happens, I did sit next to Pauline once in that dark.
    By David Thomson September 5, 2001
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