American movie critics : an anthology from the silents until now /
American movie critics : an anthology from the silents until now /
edited by Phillip Lopate.
- Expanded ed., 1st pbk. ed.
- New York : Library of America, c2008.
- xxix, 760 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The photoplay of action ; The artistic position of Douglas Fairbanks and The thief of Bagdad production / The function of the photoplay / The cabinet of Dr. Caligari ; Nanook of the north ; A woman of Paris ; Manhandled ; The temptress ; What price glory? / The ten commandments ; Greed / The new Chaplin comedy (The gold rush) / from Appendix from Moronia : note on technic / The passion of Joan of Arc / The "talkies" / "A" in the art of the movie and kino ; Remarks of D.W. Griffith / from An hour with the movies and the talkies / Anna Christie ; Good art, good propaganda / King Kong ; The invisible man / Parachute jumper ; Hallelujah I'm a bum ; Ladies they talk about ; Our betters ; King Kong ; Night flight ; Camille ; The last of Mrs. Cheyney ; Personal property ; Another dawn ; A day at the races / The devil is a woman ; The future of color / The film critic of tomorrow / Dancing in films / The charge of the light brigade / Stars and garters (Belle of the nineties) ; Artist among the flickers (Three songs about Lenin) ; Arms and men (Lives of a Bengal lancer) ; Words and music (Broadway melody of 1936) ; In a dry month (Hands across the table) ; Cagney : great guy ; Through the looking glass (Stage door) ; Walt Disney's Grimm reality (Snow White and the seven dwarfs) ; Hitchcock in Hollywood (Foreign correspondent) ; For better, for worse (Time in the sun) ; Handsome is (High Sierra) ; Citizen Welles ; Welles and his wonders II / Gone with the wind is more dangerous than Birth of a nation / Griffith and the technical innovations / The song of Bernadette ; Annual wrap-up of 1944 ; A great film (The story of G.I. Joe) ; The lost weekend ; Shoeshine ; Day of wrath / Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler / The gangster as tragic hero ; A feeling of sad dignity (Limelight) / The shadow and the act / Got a match? / The reluctant war hero (Casablanca) / Underground films ; White elephant art vs. termite art ; Kitchen without kitsch (with Patricia Patterson) / Double into quadruple indemnity ; Warhol's new sex film (Blue movie) / A king in New York / Panther Panchali and Aparajito ; A note on la belle, la perfectly swell, romance / The creative joy of the independent film-maker ; Renoir and plotless cinema ; Marilyn Monroe and the loveless world (The misfits) ; On Andy Warhol's Sleep ; Not everything that is fun is cinema (A hard day's night) ; On Bresson and Une femme douce / The misfits ; L'avventura ; Lola Montes / The birds ; La guerre est finie ; Falstaff and A countess from Hong Kong ; Science fiction : The Forbin project ; Billy Wilder ; Billy Wilder reconsidered ; John Wayne's strange legacy / The imagination of disaster / Band of outsiders ; Funny girl ; Trash, art, and the movies ; McCabe & Mrs. Miller / 8 1/2 / Cold blood : cheap fiction / The runners / Midnight cowboy ; The wild bunch ; Easy rider ; Z ; They shoot horses, don't they? ; Patton ; Zabriskie Point ; Is Fiddler more De Mille than Sholem Aleichem? / These are a few of my favorite things ; Buänuel / The woman's film ; Sophisticated interiors ; Melancholy males or movies about men turning 50 / Notes on film noir / The last picture show ; Jaundice of the soul (Chinatown) / Blue notes / M*A*S*H / from The devil finds work (Lady sings the blues) / The bitter tears of Petra von Kant / The Keaton quiet / Bad movies ; The film critic of tomorrow, today / Cons and pros (The lady Eve) / Blue velvet ; Sam Fuller : movie bozo / Rebirth of a nation (Do the right thing) ; Malcolm X'd again (Malcolm X) / The real thing / The Italian system / A boy named Sioux (Dances with wolves) / Cary Grant ; Howard Hawks / Cool cynicism : Pulp fiction / Titanic sinks again (spectacularly) / In dreams begin responsibilities (Eyes wide shut) / Trouble in paradise / Gladiator / Imitation of life / Of love and the city (In the mood for love) / On Val Lewton's The seventh victim / Ratpacks and pack males / Saying "ain't" and playing "Dixie" : rhetoric and comedy in Judge Priest / Good and evil locked in violent showdown (The passion of the Christ) ; The most overrated film of the year (Sideways) / High hopes (The royal Tenenbaums) ; Not-so-nice kitty (The cat in the hat) ; Once disaster hits, it seems never to end (A history of violence) / United 93 / To catch a predator (Zodiac) / New media and old storytelling / Vachel Lindsay -- Hugo Mèunsterberg -- Carl Sandburg -- Robert E. Sherwood -- Edmund Wilson -- H.L. Mencken -- H.D. -- Alexander Bakshy -- Harry Alan Potamkin -- Gilbert Seldes -- Pare Lorentz -- William Troy -- Cecilia Ager -- Andrâe Sennwald -- Rudolf Arnheim -- Lincoln Kierstein -- Meyer Levin-- It's up to the kiddies (Stand up and cheer) ; Otis Ferguson -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Paul Goodman -- James Agee -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Robert Warshow -- Ralph Ellison -- Martha Wolfenstein and Nathan Leites -- Barbara Deming -- Manny Farber -- Parker Tyler -- Eugene Archer -- Arlene Croce -- Jonas Mekas -- Stanley Kauffmann -- Andrew Sarris -- Susan Sontag -- Pauline Kael -- Dwight Macdonald -- Renata Adler -- Donald Phelps -- Vincent Canby -- William S. Pechter -- Molly Haskell -- Paul Schrader -- John Simon -- Brendan Gill -- Richard Corliss -- James Baldwin -- Penelope Gilliatt -- Walter Kerr -- J. Hoberman -- Stanley Cavell -- Richard Schickel -- Armond White -- David Denby -- Geoffrey O'Brien -- Paul Rudnick (aka Libby Gelman-Waxner) -- David Thomson -- Bell Hooks -- Kenneth Turan -- Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Roger Ebert -- Stuart Klawans -- James Harvey -- Kent Jones -- John Ashbery -- Carrie Rickey -- Gilberto Perez -- A.O. Scott -- Manohla Dargis -- Stephanie Zacharek -- Nathan Lee -- David Bordwell.
9781598530223 1598530224
Motion pictures--Reviews.
Cine--Historia y crítica
Imagenes en movimiento--Criticas.
PN 1995 / A512 2008
791.43/75
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The photoplay of action ; The artistic position of Douglas Fairbanks and The thief of Bagdad production / The function of the photoplay / The cabinet of Dr. Caligari ; Nanook of the north ; A woman of Paris ; Manhandled ; The temptress ; What price glory? / The ten commandments ; Greed / The new Chaplin comedy (The gold rush) / from Appendix from Moronia : note on technic / The passion of Joan of Arc / The "talkies" / "A" in the art of the movie and kino ; Remarks of D.W. Griffith / from An hour with the movies and the talkies / Anna Christie ; Good art, good propaganda / King Kong ; The invisible man / Parachute jumper ; Hallelujah I'm a bum ; Ladies they talk about ; Our betters ; King Kong ; Night flight ; Camille ; The last of Mrs. Cheyney ; Personal property ; Another dawn ; A day at the races / The devil is a woman ; The future of color / The film critic of tomorrow / Dancing in films / The charge of the light brigade / Stars and garters (Belle of the nineties) ; Artist among the flickers (Three songs about Lenin) ; Arms and men (Lives of a Bengal lancer) ; Words and music (Broadway melody of 1936) ; In a dry month (Hands across the table) ; Cagney : great guy ; Through the looking glass (Stage door) ; Walt Disney's Grimm reality (Snow White and the seven dwarfs) ; Hitchcock in Hollywood (Foreign correspondent) ; For better, for worse (Time in the sun) ; Handsome is (High Sierra) ; Citizen Welles ; Welles and his wonders II / Gone with the wind is more dangerous than Birth of a nation / Griffith and the technical innovations / The song of Bernadette ; Annual wrap-up of 1944 ; A great film (The story of G.I. Joe) ; The lost weekend ; Shoeshine ; Day of wrath / Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler / The gangster as tragic hero ; A feeling of sad dignity (Limelight) / The shadow and the act / Got a match? / The reluctant war hero (Casablanca) / Underground films ; White elephant art vs. termite art ; Kitchen without kitsch (with Patricia Patterson) / Double into quadruple indemnity ; Warhol's new sex film (Blue movie) / A king in New York / Panther Panchali and Aparajito ; A note on la belle, la perfectly swell, romance / The creative joy of the independent film-maker ; Renoir and plotless cinema ; Marilyn Monroe and the loveless world (The misfits) ; On Andy Warhol's Sleep ; Not everything that is fun is cinema (A hard day's night) ; On Bresson and Une femme douce / The misfits ; L'avventura ; Lola Montes / The birds ; La guerre est finie ; Falstaff and A countess from Hong Kong ; Science fiction : The Forbin project ; Billy Wilder ; Billy Wilder reconsidered ; John Wayne's strange legacy / The imagination of disaster / Band of outsiders ; Funny girl ; Trash, art, and the movies ; McCabe & Mrs. Miller / 8 1/2 / Cold blood : cheap fiction / The runners / Midnight cowboy ; The wild bunch ; Easy rider ; Z ; They shoot horses, don't they? ; Patton ; Zabriskie Point ; Is Fiddler more De Mille than Sholem Aleichem? / These are a few of my favorite things ; Buänuel / The woman's film ; Sophisticated interiors ; Melancholy males or movies about men turning 50 / Notes on film noir / The last picture show ; Jaundice of the soul (Chinatown) / Blue notes / M*A*S*H / from The devil finds work (Lady sings the blues) / The bitter tears of Petra von Kant / The Keaton quiet / Bad movies ; The film critic of tomorrow, today / Cons and pros (The lady Eve) / Blue velvet ; Sam Fuller : movie bozo / Rebirth of a nation (Do the right thing) ; Malcolm X'd again (Malcolm X) / The real thing / The Italian system / A boy named Sioux (Dances with wolves) / Cary Grant ; Howard Hawks / Cool cynicism : Pulp fiction / Titanic sinks again (spectacularly) / In dreams begin responsibilities (Eyes wide shut) / Trouble in paradise / Gladiator / Imitation of life / Of love and the city (In the mood for love) / On Val Lewton's The seventh victim / Ratpacks and pack males / Saying "ain't" and playing "Dixie" : rhetoric and comedy in Judge Priest / Good and evil locked in violent showdown (The passion of the Christ) ; The most overrated film of the year (Sideways) / High hopes (The royal Tenenbaums) ; Not-so-nice kitty (The cat in the hat) ; Once disaster hits, it seems never to end (A history of violence) / United 93 / To catch a predator (Zodiac) / New media and old storytelling / Vachel Lindsay -- Hugo Mèunsterberg -- Carl Sandburg -- Robert E. Sherwood -- Edmund Wilson -- H.L. Mencken -- H.D. -- Alexander Bakshy -- Harry Alan Potamkin -- Gilbert Seldes -- Pare Lorentz -- William Troy -- Cecilia Ager -- Andrâe Sennwald -- Rudolf Arnheim -- Lincoln Kierstein -- Meyer Levin-- It's up to the kiddies (Stand up and cheer) ; Otis Ferguson -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Paul Goodman -- James Agee -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Robert Warshow -- Ralph Ellison -- Martha Wolfenstein and Nathan Leites -- Barbara Deming -- Manny Farber -- Parker Tyler -- Eugene Archer -- Arlene Croce -- Jonas Mekas -- Stanley Kauffmann -- Andrew Sarris -- Susan Sontag -- Pauline Kael -- Dwight Macdonald -- Renata Adler -- Donald Phelps -- Vincent Canby -- William S. Pechter -- Molly Haskell -- Paul Schrader -- John Simon -- Brendan Gill -- Richard Corliss -- James Baldwin -- Penelope Gilliatt -- Walter Kerr -- J. Hoberman -- Stanley Cavell -- Richard Schickel -- Armond White -- David Denby -- Geoffrey O'Brien -- Paul Rudnick (aka Libby Gelman-Waxner) -- David Thomson -- Bell Hooks -- Kenneth Turan -- Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Roger Ebert -- Stuart Klawans -- James Harvey -- Kent Jones -- John Ashbery -- Carrie Rickey -- Gilberto Perez -- A.O. Scott -- Manohla Dargis -- Stephanie Zacharek -- Nathan Lee -- David Bordwell.
9781598530223 1598530224
Motion pictures--Reviews.
Cine--Historia y crítica
Imagenes en movimiento--Criticas.
PN 1995 / A512 2008
791.43/75