Movies

by Various (Author); Adair, Gilbert (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780141180847
• ISBN10: 0141180846
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

Has mainstream, formulaic, big-budget moviemaking triumphed over all other alternatives? Covering subjects as diverse as avant-garde cinema, B-movies, blue movies, bad movies and Nazi propaganda, with texts by filmmakers and non-specialists - Orson Welles, Fellini, Updike on Burton and Taylor, Mailer on Marilyn - this is a refreshing corrective to the Hollywood bias.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Pioneering	p. 1
From Speak, Memory	p. 3
Letter to Jules Carpentier	p. 8
L'Arrivee d'un train en gare de La Ciotat	p. 9
The Kingdom of Shadows	p. 10
A Conversation on Film	p. 14
Comedy's Greatest Era	p. 17
Moviegoing	p. 37
From Le Silence est d'or	p. 39
Time Flies	p. 41
From A Death in the Family	p. 42
I Remember	p. 46
Warhol's Sleep	p. 50
Moviemaking	p. 53
From Adventures with D. W. Griffith	p. 55
Pabst and Lulu	p. 62
Tarzan, the Ape Man Story Conference Notes	p. 71
Backstage at the Studio	p. 74
From Something Like an Autobiography	p. 83
From My Years With Apu	p. 92
From The Studio	p. 96
The Making of Whity	p. 100
To Make a Film Means to Take a Position	p. 110
From Blue Movie	p. 113
Specializing	p. 121
Underground Films	p. 123
Short and Happy	p. 136
Beatitudes of B Pictures	p. 139
Bad Movies	p. 146
How to Play Indians	p. 159
How to Recognize a Porn Movie	p. 163
Re: Bad Day at Black Rock	p. 165
Three-Dementia	p. 168
The Imagination of Disaster	p. 170
Million-Dollar Graffiti: Notes from the Digital Domain	p. 186
Theorizing	p. 205
The Era of the Image Has Arrived	p. 207
Speech at the premiere of A Propos de Nice	p. 211
An Overwhelming Film	p. 214
On Dubbing	p. 216
Black and White	p. 218
A King in New York: King Kong	p. 221
An Inquiry	p. 231
Some Ideas on the Cinema	p. 235
From Notes on Cinematography	p. 246
The Romans in Films	p. 248
The Face of Garbo	p. 252
A Free Replay (Notes on Vertigo)	p. 255
Despising What You Sell	p. 263
Apocalypse Now	p. 265
The China Syndrome	p. 268
Just Place, Preferably Architectural Place	p. 273
Reflecting	p. 281
Filming Death	p. 283
The Wandering Jew	p. 287
What is Cinema for Us?	p. 292
Worshipping	p. 297
Entomology of the Pin-up Girl	p. 300
Marilyn	p. 305
John Wayne Listening	p. 319
Creating	p. 325
Charlie Chaplin	p. 327
About Boris Barnet	p. 334
Marcel Pagnol	p. 338
From 'Eisenstein on Disney'	p. 341
The Golden Age	p. 356
The Rogues are Weary	p. 368
From The Wrong Man	p. 372
'La Tour de Nesle'	p. 374
From Cinecitta	p. 378
From And Life Continues	p. 381
Dreaming	p. 383
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities	p. 385
Naaman's Song	p. 394
From A Night at the Opera	p. 396
Shaggy Doggerel	p. 401
Oscar Night in Hollywood	p. 403
More Shaggy Doggerel	p. 412
Character	p. 414
From Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies	p. 415
From Suspects	p. 418
Life as a Remake of Movies	p. 422
Letter to Jean-Luc Godard	p. 424
Les 400 Coups	p. 432
Slowness	p. 433
Last Shaggy Doggerel	p. 435
Criticizing	p. 437
From A Twentieth Century Job	p. 439
'Not Where We Came In'	p. 443
Acknowledgements	p. 445
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