CONTENTS

I    Second Thoughts

1    The Cinematheque Today

2    The Second Time Around

II    Second Times

1    Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

2    Cruising (1980)

3    Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

4    Bonnie and Pierrot

5    Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

6    Vertigo (1958)

7    La Ronde (1950)

8    The H-Man (1958)

9    French Hitchcock

10    Toby Dammit (1969)

11    Chabarthes: Chabrol, Le Beau Serge; Barthes, “Cinema Right and Left”

12    Medea (1972)

13    Last Time Around: The Birds (1963)

  Acknowledgments