TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lopate,Phillip
TI  - American movie critics: an anthology from the silents until now 
SN  - 9781598530223
AV  - PN 1995 A512 2008
U1  - 791.43/75 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Library of America
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Reviews
KW  - Cine
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Imagenes en movimiento
KW  - Criticas
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; The photoplay of action; The artistic position of Douglas Fairbanks and The thief of Bagdad production; Vachel Lindsay --; The function of the photoplay; Hugo Mèunsterberg --; The cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Nanook of the north; A woman of Paris; Manhandled; The temptress; What price glory?; Carl Sandburg --; The ten commandments; Greed; Robert E. Sherwood --; The new Chaplin comedy (The gold rush); Edmund Wilson --; from Appendix from Moronia : note on technic; H.L. Mencken --; The passion of Joan of Arc; H.D. --; The "talkies"; Alexander Bakshy --; "A" in the art of the movie and kino; Remarks of D.W. Griffith; Harry Alan Potamkin --; from An hour with the movies and the talkies; Gilbert Seldes --; Anna Christie; Good art, good propaganda; Pare Lorentz --; King Kong; The invisible man; William Troy --; 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; Cecilia Ager --; The devil is a woman; The future of color; Andrâe Sennwald --; The film critic of tomorrow; Rudolf Arnheim --; Dancing in films; Lincoln Kierstein --; The charge of the light brigade; Meyer Levin-- It's up to the kiddies (Stand up and cheer); 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; Otis Ferguson --; Gone with the wind is more dangerous than Birth of a nation; Melvin B. Tolson --; Griffith and the technical innovations; Paul Goodman --; 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; James Agee --; Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler; Siegfried Kracauer --; The gangster as tragic hero; A feeling of sad dignity (Limelight); Robert Warshow --; The shadow and the act; Ralph Ellison --; Got a match?; Martha Wolfenstein and Nathan Leites --; The reluctant war hero (Casablanca); Barbara Deming --; Underground films; White elephant art vs. termite art; Kitchen without kitsch (with Patricia Patterson); Manny Farber --; Double into quadruple indemnity; Warhol's new sex film (Blue movie); Parker Tyler --; A king in New York; Eugene Archer --; Panther Panchali and Aparajito; A note on la belle, la perfectly swell, romance; Arlene Croce --; 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; Jonas Mekas --; The misfits; L'avventura; Lola Montes; Stanley Kauffmann --; 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; Andrew Sarris --; The imagination of disaster; Susan Sontag --; Band of outsiders; Funny girl; Trash, art, and the movies; McCabe & Mrs. Miller; Pauline Kael --; 8 1/2; Dwight Macdonald --; Cold blood : cheap fiction; Renata Adler --; The runners; Donald Phelps --; 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?; Vincent Canby --; These are a few of my favorite things; Buänuel; William S. Pechter --; The woman's film; Sophisticated interiors; Melancholy males or movies about men turning 50; Molly Haskell --; Notes on film noir; Paul Schrader --; The last picture show; Jaundice of the soul (Chinatown); John Simon --; Blue notes; Brendan Gill --; M*A*S*H; Richard Corliss --; from The devil finds work (Lady sings the blues); James Baldwin --; The bitter tears of Petra von Kant; Penelope Gilliatt --; The Keaton quiet; Walter Kerr --; Bad movies; The film critic of tomorrow, today; J. Hoberman --; Cons and pros (The lady Eve); Stanley Cavell --; Blue velvet; Sam Fuller : movie bozo; Richard Schickel --; Rebirth of a nation (Do the right thing); Malcolm X'd again (Malcolm X); Armond White --; The real thing; David Denby --; The Italian system; Geoffrey O'Brien --; A boy named Sioux (Dances with wolves); Paul Rudnick (aka Libby Gelman-Waxner) --; Cary Grant; Howard Hawks; David Thomson --; Cool cynicism : Pulp fiction; Bell Hooks --; Titanic sinks again (spectacularly); Kenneth Turan --; In dreams begin responsibilities (Eyes wide shut); Jonathan Rosenbaum --; Trouble in paradise; Roger Ebert --; Gladiator; Stuart Klawans --; Imitation of life; James Harvey --; Of love and the city (In the mood for love); Kent Jones --; On Val Lewton's The seventh victim; John Ashbery --; Ratpacks and pack males; Carrie Rickey --; Saying "ain't" and playing "Dixie" : rhetoric and comedy in Judge Priest; Gilberto Perez --; Good and evil locked in violent showdown (The passion of the Christ); The most overrated film of the year (Sideways); A.O. Scott --; 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); Manohla Dargis --; United 93; Stephanie Zacharek --; To catch a predator (Zodiac); Nathan Lee --; New media and old storytelling; David Bordwell
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