Roger Ebert's Book of Film PDF
Preview Roger Ebert's Book of Film
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No rton & Comp an y Ltd ., 10 Copti c Stree t, London WC1A 1PU For Aunt Martha, Who took me to the movies CoNTENTS INTRODUCTION GOING TO THE MOVIES From A Death in the Family "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" From The Bachelor if' Arts "The Wizard of Oz" From Another Day if' Life From The Moviesoer From Movin9 Places From The Last Picture Show From The Phantom Empire MOVIE STARS Rudolph Valentino Greta Garbo ROGER EBERT James Agee I 7 Delmore Schwartz 2o R. K. Narayan 27 Terry McMillan 3 o R yszard KapuScinski 3 8 Walker Percy 40 Jonathan Rosenbaum 43 Larry McMurtry _s-o Geoffrey O'Brien 6o H. L. Mencken 7 I Stark Young 74 7 8 C o nte n t s "They Can't Take That Away from Me" From W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes From The Road to Hollywood From By Myself "Bogie in Excelsis" From Suspects James Dean From The Films if My Life "Ava: Life in the Afternoon" From Selected Letters "John Wayne: A Love Song" "Loverboy of the Bourgeoisie" "Setsuko Hara" "Suzie Creamcheese Speaks" "A Beautiful Child" From Notes "Lee Marvin" From Kinski Uncut John Belushi THE BusiNESS "The Wahoo Boy" "The Island of Hollywood" From FlyinB throuah Hollywood by the Seat if My Pants From Step Riaht Up From Picture From Get Shorty From The Player From Wannabe Marcelle Clements 7 8 Robert Lewis Taylor 82 Bob Hope and Bob Thomas 8 6 Lauren Bacall 8 8 Peter Bogdanovich 9 2 David Thomson 1 04- Nicholas Ray 1 1 o Franc;:ois Truffaut 1 16 Rex Reed 1 26 John O'Hara 1 3 3 Joan Didion 1 3 7 Tom Wolfe 1 4-4- Donald Ritchie 14-9 John Updike 1,S"2 Truman Capote 1 6 1 Eleanor Coppola 173 Roger Ebert 1 79 Klaus Kinski 1 87 Mike Royko 19,S" Alva Johnston 203 Carey McWilliams 2 1 6 Sam Arkoff 2 3 2 William Castle 237 Lillian Ross 24-2 Elmore Leonard 24-9 Michael Tolkin 21)7 Everett Weinberger 26o SEx AND ScANDAL "Mae West" From Hollywood Babylon "The Awful Fate of the Sex Goddess" "Blue Notes" "Last Tango in Paris" "Tango, Last Tango" From The Goc!father EARLY DAYS "Edison's Vitascope Cheered" ''The Great Train Robbery" Lumiere A Conversation on Film with Leo Tolstoy "The Nickelodeons" "The Photoplay of Action" From My Autobioaraphy John Bwmy "Pabst and Lulu" Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson "Keaton at Venice" "I'm Sorry I Made Me Cry" GENRES "Minnie and Mickey" "The Western: or the American Film par Excellence" Co nt e n t s 9 John Kobal 2 7 I Kenneth Anger 286 Parker Tyler 2 9 I Brendan Gill 297 Pauline Kael 307 Norman Mailer 3 I4 Mario Puzo 3 2 3 New York Times 33 9 Philadelphia In quirer 339 Maxim Gorky 342 Leo Tolstoy 345 Joseph Medill Patterson 347 Vachel Lindsay 3H Charlie Chaplin 359 Djuna Barnes 3 6 2 Louise Brooks 366 Kevin Brownlow 3 7 3 Kevin Brownlow 3 77 John Gillett and James Blue 379 S. J. Perelman 388 E. M. Forster 397 Andre Bazin 4oo I o C o n t e n t s "The Gangster as Tragic Hero" "Underground Films" "The Imagination of Disaster" "Libby 'Noir' " DIRECTORS From My Last Siah From The Manic Lantern "My Own Methods" From A Life in Movies From Run-throuah From Preston Sturaes on Preston Sturaes "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" From An Open Book From My Life and My Films From SomethinB Like an Autobioaraphy Stanley Kubrick "A Long Time on the Little Road" From Fellini on Fellini From One Man Tanao Mel Brooks From POPism From SculptinB in Time From Scorsese on Scorsese From Do the Riaht Thine "Frequently Asked Questions about Quentin Tarantino" WRITERS From A Child if the Centu')' "Who Makes the Movies?" Robert Warshow 407 Manny Farber 4 I 2 Susan Sontag 42 3 Libby Gelman-Waxner 436 Luis Buiiuel 44 I Ingmar Bergman 444 Alfred Hitchcock 447 Michael Powell 4B John Houseman 45"7 Preston Sturges 46 3 Woody Allen 470 John Huston 47 3 Jean Renoir 479 Akira Kurosawa Jeremy Bernstein Satyajit Ray 49 3 Federico Fellini 498 Anthony Quinn 502 Kenneth Tynan s I I Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett s I 8 Andrei Tarkovsky 527 Martin Scorsese s 3 I Spike Lee _n6 Simon Gleave and Jason Forest 548 Ben Hecht s s ') Gore Vidal ')69 From Prater Violet From Selected Letters From Hollywood CRITICS "Memories of a Film Critic" From On Movies From Corifessions cif a Cultist "Why I'm Not Bored" From How to Go to the Movies TECHNIQUE "Matters of Photogenics" "Movie Boners" From The Stronaman From Behind the Scenes cif"Psycho" "The Laws of Cartoon Motion" From Somethina Like an Autobioaraphy From On DirectinB Film HOLLYWOOD "Crazy Sunday" "The Movie People" "If You Want to Make Movies . From Hollywood From What Makes Sammy Run? C o n t e n t s 11 Christopher Isherwood _s-8 1 Raymond Chandler .5"94 Charles Bukowski .5"97 Graham Greene 6 1 1 Dwight Macdonald 6 1 9 Andrew Sarris 6 2 3 Stanley Kauffmann 6 2 8 Quentin Crisp 6 3 2 Nestor Almendros 641 Robert Benchley 649 Joe Bonomo 6_s-1 Janet Leigh 6 H Mark O'Donnell 66o Akira Kurosawa 662 David Mamet 668 F. Scott Fitzgerald 6 7 7 Robert Bloch 692 Blaise Cendrars 702 Gore Vidal 7 1 1 Budd Schulberg 7 2 2
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