SHIT. One of the good guys of film criticism has left us. I was very much one of those film students who grew up on Film Art: An Introduction, the third edition of which was one of our assigned books when I did Theatre & Film Studies at UNSW back in the 90s; we never got assigned the film history book, though that’s only because him and Thompson didn’t actually write it until many years later… I was particularly delighted to discover that at the local library some years ago, and I still think it’s probably the best example of a general film history book out there. Matt Zoller Seitz offers a solid appreciation here.