The Village Voice Film Guide: 50 Years of Movies from Classics to Cult Hits

by Village Voice; Editor: Dennis Lim

• ISBN13: 9780470077863
• ISBN10: 0470077867
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

For decades the Village Voice set the benchmark for passionate, critical, and unique film coverage. Including reviews by some of America's most respected critics, The Village Voice Film Guide compiles spirited landmark reviews of the Voice's selection of the 150 greatest films ever made. Collecting some of the best writing on film ever put on paper, this is a perfect book for film buffs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A History of Film Criticism at the Village Voice

L'Age d'Or (Luis Bu?uel, 1930) Reviews

The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993) Reviews

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) Review

Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969) Review

Aparajito (1957). See The Apu Trilogy

The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray): Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1957), The World of Apu (1959) Review

L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983) Review

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934) Review

Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966) Reviews

L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) Review

Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, 1992) Review

Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) Review

The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965) Reviews

Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999) Review

Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004) Review

Belle de Jour (Luis Bu?uel, 1967) Review

The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) Review

The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) Reviews

Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) Review

Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) Reviews

Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) Review

Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2003) Review

Ceddo (Ousmane Sembene, 1977) Review

Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974) Review

The Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol, 1966) Reviews

Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) Reviews

Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994) Review

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) Review

Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990) Review

The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov, 1968) Review

The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) Review

Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) Reviews

Cutter and Bone/Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer, 1981) Review

Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai, 1990) Review

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995) Review

Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988) Reviews

The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989) Review

The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson, 1977) Review

Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988) Review

Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) Review

Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) Review

Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001) Review

Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930) Review

Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977) Review

The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981) Review

F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1974) Reviews

Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968) Reviews

Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999) Review

Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963) Review

The Flower Thief (Ron Rice, 1960) Review

Flowing (Mikio Naruse, 1956)

Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse, 1954) Review

Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964) Review

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