American Film, Volume III, Number 1
Subtitle: October 1977
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: October 1977
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1977
Description: Cover photo of Mel Brooks in "High Anxiety." $1.75 cover price.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 2; title: Hollis Alpert; label: Comment: The Pig in the Poke
pagenum: 3
title: When exhibitors must bid for films sight unseen, fewer films are seen.; title: Paul Lazarus; label: McMurtry on the Movies: The Seasons of L.A.
pagenum: 8
title: The author returns to Hollywood after three years and discovers the natives mostly talking about New York.; title: Larry McMurtry; label: The Mel Brooks Memos
pagenum: 10
title: Our man played Boswell on the manic set of "High Anxiety," Mel Brooks's movie homage - his word - to Alfred Hitchcock.; title: Gene Lees; label: Focus on Education: Starry Evenings at Sherwood Oaks
pagenum: 19
title: A little school with an all-star faculty.; title: Stephen Zito; label: Were Those the Days?
pagenum: 20
title: Movies once viewed the past through a nostalgia haze. No more. The trend now is to view the past as harshly as we view the present.; title: John Russell Taylor; label: The Day the Silents Stopped
pagenum: 24
title: They died fifty years ago - in fact, precisely on October 6, 1927: "The Jazz Singer" opened and the silent era closed.; title: Larry Swindell; label: Sound Track: Saving the Score
pagenum: 32
title: Wanted: a national film music archive.; title: Robert Fiedel; label: Dialogue on Film: Richard Brooks
pagenum: 33
title: Director Richard Brooks talks about "Looking for Mr. Goodbar," his latest film, and discusses his tempestuous Hollywood years.; label: Notes on Some European Directors
pagenum: 49
title: A visit with the cream of Europe's young crop: Bernardo Bertolucci, Werner Schroeter, and Werner Herzog. They're brassy and very talented.; title: Alan Greenberg; label: Star-Spangled Studio
pagenum: 54
title: Last year the United States government spent a half-billion dollars to make movies. Just what are we paying for?; title: Alex Ward; label: Commercials: Another Kind of Filmmaking
pagenum: 60
title: The cinematographer is Conrad Hall, the shooting goes on for a grueling three days - and al for a beer commercial.; title: Bruce Cook; label: Inner Circles: How to Interview a Star
pagenum: 64
title: Ever try to talk to a star? Some people make a living at it.; title: Joseph Bell; label: Explorations: American Portraits
pagenum: 66
title: Documentary filmmaker Tom Davenport has his own special way of seeing and evoking his folkloric subjects.; title: Charles Paul Freund; label: Festival Report: Berlin
pagenum: 68
title: Films about Hitler and World War II dominated this year's festival.; title: David Robinson; label: Books (Reviews); label: Erik Barnouw
pagenum: 72
title: "Sarnoff: An American Success" by Carl Dreher.; label: Robert Sklar
pagenum: 74
title: "The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist" by Dan Rather.; label: Philip Geyelin
pagenum: 75
title: "The Newscasters: The News Business as Show Business" by Ron Powers; label: Thomas Wiener
pagenum: 78
title: A review of two books of American film criticism.; label: AFI News
pagenum: 79