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The Last Flight

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David Thomson explores flying in film, and how it merges with our desire to escape.

Author and film critic David Thomson explores how cinema has changed him - and us: flying and our desire to escape. From 2011.

Flight begins almost at the same moment as the motion picture camera cranks into life and many of its early directors had themselves taken to the air to experience the tumult of the clouds. 

Flying on film, the camera swooping through space, promise escape. It is close to a dream. The dream of total immersion as we enter the screen and lose ourselves, perhaps forever.

Critic and writer David Thomson nears the end of his journey through the power of cinema. 

Producer: Mark Burman.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2011.

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