(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Shutterstock)On this week’s Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, I talked to veteran film critic and historian David Thomson about his new book, A Sudden Flicker of Light. I always enjoy having Mr. Thomson on the show (I’ve previously had him on to discuss his book on acting and his book tracing the history of how we think about directors), but I felt a little trepidation this time around because his new book is, to put it bluntly, distraught about film and what it has done to us.Noting the explosion of attendance at movie theaters by 1930, Thomson writes that “there had never been a time in which such a large part of a nation was seeing the same thing and having its imagination extended yet hived off in the process.” This was a problem, sinc