Contents

INTRODUCTION: OTHER ROADS, OTHER TRACKS

With Camera and Gun

Three’s a Crowd

The Little Fellow

Gabin in Hollywood

The Naked Truth

Not by the Book

Hollywood Blues

Saccharine Symphony

The Grapes, Alas

Gehrig to Cooper to Chance

Twice Over Heavily

A British Movie Biography

The Logic of Lunacy

Memorandum for Hollywood

Black Tails and White Lies

Fiction and Fact

Between Two Worlds

The Journey, Cont.

Witches’ Brew

The Warner Boys in Africa

Preston Sturges: Satirist

Movie of the Year

Children’s War

History and Hollywood

Hitchcock in Stride

Wartime Documentaries

The Heroes of the Mary Ann

To What Base Uses

Native Fascist, MGM Style

The Too Beautiful People

“The Hard Way”

Zanuck at the Front

One for the Ages

The Trouble with Movies

Writers as Producers

The Nazis Again

Let Us Now Praise Movies

Less Talk and More Mail

Education for War

The Trouble With Movies: II

The Sea Without Salt

The Expendables

Columbia Cooler

The Great White Way

Between Two Words

When the Pie Was Opened

The Production Line

Method in Its Badness

Tessa’s Last Stand?

Not So Sound as Furious

Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

Short and Happy

Love in the Foxholes

Exterior Decorating

Russian Victory

The Perils of Tartu

Whimsy Gets the Whammy

The Cardboard Star

Two Shorts and a Wrongo

Heaven, American Style

“The Cross of Lorraine”

Movies in Wartime

Earth on Heaven

Among the Missing: Hitchcock

Pow, Bam and Sock

Theatrical Movies

The Happiness Boys

The Great Cardboard Event

The Lady and the Belle

Up from Slavery

The Great Brain Robbery

Fathers and Songs

Personnel Department

Boys in the Back Room

Andersen’s Fairy Tale

The Unholy Three

Warners’ Boys in the Balkans

Home Sweet Home

Hard-as-Nails Dept.

The Water’s Fine

It Comes Up Corn

For He’s a Jolly, Good Fellow

To Be and Not to Be

Independents’ Day

The Straight and Narrow

Against the Grain

More Notes on Newsreels

Marie the Magician

The Red and the Black

The Miracle of Morton

Rich Creamy Lather

Flesh and Enamel

To Have and Have Not

The Case of the Hidden Camera

Day of Reckoning

Just Plain Folks

Crazy Over Horses

Fact and Application

Close Shave in Burma

The Brooklyn Dodger

Petrified Youth

Through Thin and Thick

Returning Soldiers

Signs of the Double-Cross

Seven Who Were Harangued

Plenty of Nothin’

War Without Glamour

Coat of Navy Goo

The Hour of Charm

Renoir on Tenant Farmers

Psychological Melodrama

Suburban Badlands

Drooping Spirits

Make Mine Muzak

Crime Without Passion

French Primitive

Olivier’s “Henry V”

“Open City”

Hellman’s Movietone News

Iverstown Slaughter

Hollywood Barnum

Journey into the Night

Caper of the Week

Middle-Aged Fling

Maya Deren’s Films

“The Well-Digger’s Daughter”

Very Sweet Sixteen

Paranoia Unlimited

Nervous from the Service

Portrait of the Artist

Stranglers and Toreadors

Mugging Main Street

Home of the Brave

[Devil in the Flesh]

[The “Psychiatry Movie”]

[Lost Boundaries]

[The Great Gatsby]

[“movies are worse than ever”]

[The Men; Panic in the Streets]

[Sunset Boulevard]

[Ways of Love; Oliver Twist; Manon; Union Station; etc.]

[Born Yesterday; The Magnificent Yankee; Branded; Operation Disaster]

[The Sound of Fury]

[Teresa; The Magnet; I’d Climb the Highest Mountain]

[Fourteen Hours]

[The Thing; The Brave Bulls; The Scarf; The Bullfighter and the Lady; Appointment With Danger]

[A Place in the Sun]

[The Frogmen; Ace in the Hole; M; He Ran All the Way]

[Strangers on a Train]

[Bright Victory; The Well; Take Care of My Little Girl; Night Into Morning]

[That’s My Boy; Women Without Names]

[Force of Arms]

[People Will Talk; Saturday’s Hero]

[A Streetcar Named Desire]

[The Red Badge of Courage]

Detective Story

“Best Films” of 1951

[Miracle in Milan; Rashomon; I Want You; Behave Yourself; etc.]

[My Son John; The Big Night; On Dangerous Ground]

[Boots Malone]

[In the Street; High Noon; The Marrying Kind; The Fighter]

[Carrie; Outcast of the Islands]

[The Sniper; The Pride of Saint Louis]

[Walk East on Beacon]

[Clash By Night]

[Pat and Mike; The Ring; Shadow in the Sky]

[Don’t Bother to Knock, Glory Alley; Olympics newsreels]

[The Leopard Man, My Man and I; Young Man with Ideas; Sudden Fear; The Big Sky; etc.]

[Apex Hotel; This Is Cinerama; What Price Glory?; The Happy Time]

[Come Back Little Sheba; The Thief; The Lusty Men; Kansas City Confidential; The Four Poster]

[The Promoter; Park Row; Thunder in the East; O. Henry’s Full House]

[The Turning Point; Peter Pan; The Steel Trap; Babes in Bagdad]

Blame the Audience

[My Cousin Rachel; Above and Beyond; Jeux Interdits]

[Best films of 1952]

[The Member of the Wedding]

[The Little World of Don Camillo; Niagara; Taxi; Curtain Up]

[Moulin Rouge]

[The Naked Spur; Jeopardy]

[Destination Gobi; I Confess; The President’s Lady; Angel Face]

[Bright Road]

[Times Square Audiences; The Moon Is Blue]

[Stalag 17; etc.]

[3-D Films; Second Chance; The Band Wagon; Night Without Stars; From Here to Eternity]

[From Here to Eternity; The Cruel Sea]

[Roman Holiday; The Beggar’s Opera]

[Martin Luther; Island in the Sky; 99 River Street]

[Little Fugitive]

[The Joe Louis Story; The Big Heat; Mogambo; etc.]

[The Living Desert; How to Marry a Millionaire; The Man Between]

[Movie gimmicks; seven films of 1953]

Preston Sturges: Success in the Movies

Hard-Sell Cinema

Underground Films

Nearer My Agee to Thee

Bathroom Mirror Sinceratease

Hollywood’s New Peepshow Naturalism

‘That’s It, Boy. I Mean, That’s It.’

Three Art-y Films

Home Screen Jabberwocky

Underground Magic, Eccentric Vitality and Artful Direction Salvage Banal Stories

Big-Studio ‘Supers’—Monumental Art Baked in a Pittsburgh Blast Furnace

Getting Inside ‘Inside Humor’

Hollywood’s Plot Against the Plot

Compromise in a Closed Medium

Wild ‘Wild Strawberries’

Corny Anti-Philistinism

Culture With a Price Tag

A Director’s Skill With Terror, Geography and Truth

White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art

The Decline of the Actor

Nearer My Agee to Thee

[The Married Woman]

The Wizard of Gauze

The Cold That Came Into the Spy

Day of the Lesteroid

Lambs Without Mary / Lumet Looms Again

Rain in the Face, Dry Gulch, and Squalling Mouth

[Red Desert; Mademoiselle; A Man and a Woman; Masculine Feminine]

New York Film Festival: 1967

Cartooned Hip Acting

How I Won the War

Experimental Films

La Chinoise and Belle de Jour

Carbonated Dyspepsia

Jean-Luc Godard

New York Film Festival: 1968

New York Film Festival 1968, Afterthoughts

Canadian Underground

Films at Canadian Artists ’68

[Two Rode Together; Coogan’s Bluff; Bullitt; etc.]

New York Film Festival: 1969

[Ten best films of 1969]

[Loving; Zabriskie Point; Topaz; The Damned; Au Hasard Balthazar]

[Ozu’s films]

Introduction to Negative Space

The Venice Film Festival

The New Breed of Filmmakers: A Multiplication of Myths

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Nashville: Good Ole Country Porn

Badlands, Mean Streets, and The Wind and the Lion

New York Film Festival: 1975

The Power and the Gory

Kitchen Without Kitsch

Munich Films, 1967–1977: Ten Years That Shook the Film World

Mrs. Parsons, etc.

The Hidden and the Plain

Sources & Acknowledgments