When movies mattered
Subtitle: reviews from a transformative decade
By: Dave Kehr
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780226429403; 9780226429410
Subjects: Motion pictures; Reviews
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: The best: Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir); title: Family plot (Alfred Hitchcock); title: F for fake (Orson Welles); title: Days of heaven (Terrence Malick); title: 10 (Blake Edwards); title: Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme); title: The aviator's wife (Eric Rohmer); title: Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira); title: The end of classical hollywood: Classical hollywood; title: The man who would be king (John Huston); title: Fedora (Billy Wilder); title: Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel); title: The human factor (Otto Preminger); title: New hollywood; title: The driver (Walter Hill); title: Halloween (John Carpenter); title: Reds (Warren Beatty); title: Sudden impact (Clint Eastwood); title: New directions in comedy: Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards); title: Risky business (Paul Brickman); title: Lost in America (Albert Brooks); title: After hours (Martin Scorsese); title: Mavericks and outsiders; title: Dawn of the dead (George Romero); title: The big red one (Samuel Fuller); title: Love streams (John Cassavetes); title: Trouble in mind (Alan Rudolph); title: Other visions: Old masters; title: Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rossellini); title: A piece of pleasure (Claude Chabrol); title: That obscure object of desire (Luis Buñuel); title: Perceval (Eric Rohmer); title: Godard; title: Numéro deux; title: Every man for himself; title: Passion; title: Detective; title: New masters; title: Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 (Alain Tanner); title: The memory of justice (Marcel Ophuls); title: Allegro non troppo (Bruno Bozzetto); title: The American friend (Wim Wenders); title: Loulou (Maurice Pialat); title: Eijanaika (Shohei Imamura); title: Coup de torchon (Bertrand Tavernier); title: City of pirates (Raul Ruiz); title: Revivals and retrospectives: The story of the last chyrsanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi); title: The flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini); title: Born in Germany, raised in Hollywood: the film art of Fritz Lang; title: Record of a tenement gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu); title: Peeping Tom (Michael Powell); title: Othello (Orson Welles); title: Crisis, compulsion, and creation: Raoul Walsh's cinema of the individual; title: A love that caresses the soul: films by Carl Theodor Dreyer; title: When a woman ascends the stairs (Mikio Naruse); title: Le silence de la mer and Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville); title: The leopard (Luchino Visconti); title: Hitch's riddle: on five rereleased films; title: Once upon a time in the west (Sergio Leone); title: French cancan (Jean Renoir).