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September-October 1974

1974 Cannes Film Festival, Louis Malle on Lacombe Lucien, Jacques Rivette interview, Gene Hackman interview, Luis Buñuel's The Phantom of Liberty and Tristana, Robert Altman, New Directors/New Films

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Festival Journals
Cannes by Mary Corliss

Berlin by Richard Roud

Zagreb by Leonard Maltin

Robert Altman
The Empty Staircase and the Chinese Princess
By Michael Dempsey

Interview: Jacques Rivette
By Jonathan Rosenbaum, Lauren Sedofsky, and Gilbert Adair

The End of the Road
Dark Cinema and Lolita
By Alfred Appel, Jr.

Midsection
The Industry: “Print the Legend” by Stuart Byron

New York Film Festival Preview: Richard Roud on The Spectre of Liberty

New York Film Festival Preview: Louis Malle on Lacombe Lucien

New York Film Festival Preview: David Robinson on A Bigger Splash

New York Film Festival Preview: Jan Dawson on Stavisky

Independents: Amos Vogel on the New Documentary

Interview: Gene Hackman
By Pete Hamill

New Directors/New Films
By Roger Greenspun

Moving Pictures
Cinematographer Hal Mohr, interviewed by Richard Koszarski

Tristana
By Raymond Durgnat

Books
Cinema in Revolution, reviewed by Stuart Liebman