When movies mattered : reviews from a transformative decade / by Kehr, Dave

Table of Contents: “…Francis (Roberto Rossellini) -- Born in Germany, raised in Hollywood: the film art of Fritz Lang -- Record of a tenement gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu) -- Peeping Tom (Michael Powell) -- Othello (Orson Welles) -- Crisis, compulsion, and creation: Raoul Walsh's cinema of the individual -- A love that caresses the soul: films by Carl Theodor Dreyer -- When a woman ascends the stairs (Mikio Naruse) -- Le silence de la mer and Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville) -- The leopard (Luchino Visconti) -- Hitch's riddle: on five rereleased films -- Once upon a time in the west (Sergio Leone) -- French cancan (Jean Renoir).…”

Placing movies : the practice of film criticism / by Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Theory and practice : the criticism of Jean-Luc Godard -- 'Film comment' journals, 1974-1977 : excerpts -- Edinburgh encounters : a consumers/producers guide-in-progress to four recent avant-garde films -- Barthes & film : 12 suggestions -- A bluffer's guide to Bèla Tarr -- They drive by night : the criticism of Manny Farber -- Ozu's 'Good morning' -- Aspects of 'Anatahan' -- Gold diggers of 1953 : Howard Hawk's 'Gentlemen prefer blondes' -- 'Gertrud' as nonnarrative : the desire for the image -- 'The Manchurian candidate' -- 'Othello' goes Hollywood -- Work and play in the house of fiction : on Jacques Rivette -- The tyranny of sensitivity -- Love films : a Cassavetes retrospective -- The death of Hulot -- Orson Welles's essay films and documentary fictions : a two-part speculation -- The importance of being perverse : Godard's 'King Lear' -- Alain Resnais and 'Mélo' -- Jerry Lewis's 'Hardly working' -- 'Doomed love' : the masterpiece you missed -- 'Raiders of the lost ark' -- Mapping the territory of Râúl Ruiz -- Notes toward the devaluation of Woody Allen -- Crass consciousness : 'Barton fink' -- Bird watching -- Jean Vigo's secret : L'atalante -- Guilty by omission -- His master's vice : Fuller's 'White dog' -- Government lies : 'The Panama deception' and 'Deep cover' -- A cinema of uncertainty : films by Michelangelo Antonioni.…”
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The age of movies : selected writings of Pauline Kael / by Kael, Pauline

Table of Contents: “…The Glamour of Delinquency ; The Golden Coach ; Shoeshine ; Breathless, and the Daisy Miller Doll ; West Side Story ; Lolita ; Jules and Jim ; Billy Budd ; Yojimbo ; Devi ; Hud, Deep in the Divided Heart of Hollywood -- from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Laurence Olivier as Othello ; Marlon Brando: An American Hero ; Movie Brutalists ; Tourist in the City of Youth [Blow-up] ; Movies on Television ; Orson Welles: There Ain't No Way [Falstaff / Chimes at Midnight] ; Bonnie and Clyde -- from Going Steady. …”

Vanishing acts : theater since the sixties / by Rogoff, Gordon, 1931-

Table of Contents: “…The management game ; Geraldine Page ; The birth of a notion ; Cry God for Larry : Laurence Olivier ; Richard Hayes ; Theater without programs ; Othello's occupation's gone ; The leader we invented : Joseph Papp ; Did dinosaurs dream ; Jerzy Grotowski -- ENDGAMES. …”
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When movies mattered : reviews from a transformative decade / by Kehr, Dave

Table of Contents: “…Francis (Roberto Rossellini) -- Born in Germany, raised in Hollywood: the film art of Fritz Lang -- Record of a tenement gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu) -- Peeping Tom (Michael Powell) -- Othello (Orson Welles) -- Crisis, compulsion, and creation: Raoul Walsh's cinema of the individual -- A love that caresses the soul: films by Carl Theodor Dreyer -- When a woman ascends the stairs (Mikio Naruse) -- Le silence de la mer and bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville) -- The leopard (Luchino Visconti) -- Hitch's riddle: on five re-released films -- Once upon a time in the west (Sergio Leone) -- French cancan (Jean Renoir).…”
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