Film Comment

Experimental film, the American Film Festival, the films of Rudy Burckhordt, Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, Roger Vadim’s Les Liaisons dangereuses, anti-Black propaganda in film, the Documentary Film Group of Chicago, making Dan Drasin’s Sunday

New American Cinema, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Flaherty Film Seminar, nudity in film, José Luis Font interview, Mary Ellen Bute, racial stereotypes in film, East German film

Interview with Chief of the Motion Picture Service of the United States Information Agency George Stevens Jr., Ron Rice interview, Venice Film Festival, Marcel Mariën’s L’Imitation du Cinema, film and censorship, San Francisco Film Festival, Peter Bogdanovich on Mr. Arkadin

Interview with Ephraim London, interview with film censorship attorney Hugh Hurd, Ben Maddow’s An Affair of the Skin, The Four Days of Naples, film in Hawaii, a statement from the Vice-chairman of the Motion Picture Censor Board of Maryland, silent teaching films

Interview with James Blue, interview with Frank Perry, the business of making art films, film as art, San Sebastian Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, student film workshop, cinema in the NYPL, Fellini’s  8½

New York Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Flaherty Seminar, Midwest Film Festival, exploitation films, the law and the use of music in films, towards a new narrative form in motion pictures, film and theater

Tony Richardson, Robert Gardner’s Dead Birds, documentary and ethnography ethics, Emile de Antonio’s Point of Order!, Louis Malle’s The Fire Within, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, Vittorio De Sica’s Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog

Exploitation films, children’s film, the Maysles brothers and “direct cinema,” Cannes, interview with Shirley Clarke, cinematic politics, filmmaking in Bulgaria, film censorship in the nation’s capital

Anniversary awards winners, Ernest Pintoff, Moravia on Italian Film, the death of Mickey Mouse, Carl Foreman in Israel, toward visual cinema, Věra Chytilová’s Something Different, Mario Monicelli’s The Organiser, Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence, Nelson Perreira Dos Santos’s Vidas Secas, Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, François Truffat’s The Soft Skin

The second New York Film Festival by Andrew Sarris, Roberto Rossellini, the BFI, the Maysles Brothers discuss Cinéma Vérité, the Spanish film scene, Venice Film Festival, Bruce Baillie, Gregory Markopoulos, film censorship and exhibitors

Extensive consideration of Leni Riefenstahl, contemporary German film, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert, Michael Roemer’s Nothing but a Man

Robert Rossen, Michael Roemer, Robert Young, Richard Leacock interview, Willard Van Dyke interview, Letters from The River, Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Ingmar Bergman

Ralph Nelson interview, Otto Preminger, Francois Truffaut,  Tokyo Olympiad, editing cinéma vérité, the film lectures of Slavko Vorkapich, civil liberties, La Peau Douce, Une Femme Mariée, Le Bonheur

Special section on Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Peter Watkins interview, the Hollywood Blacklist, pornography in film

Propaganda films about the war in Vietnam, Viet Cong Films, Why Vietnam?, The Rising Storm, While Brave Men Die, Dziga Vertov, Eliza Kazan and HUAC, Cannes, Carl Theodor Dreyer interview, Federico Fellini interview, review of Chaplin’s autobiography

Kennedy and Warren Commission documentaries, A Time for Burning, Troublemakers, Gerald Temaner and Gordon Quinn’s Home for Life, Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, interview with Bergman, interviews with Jean Rouch, direct cinema, Japanese underground film

Extensive Satyajit Ray interview, The Face of a Genius, experimental film, the history of the National Legion of Decency, a debate on the controversial Catholic school documentary Every Seventh Child

Film in China, Uzbek documentaries, the works of and interview with Susumu Hani, Vietnam War films and documentary photography

Film preservation at the Musem of Modern Art, Eadweard Muybridge’s contribution to the motion picture, the serious business of being funny, student film production, Warrendale, Titicut Follies, television breaks a new art form, Bergamo festival

2001: A Space Odyssey, Bruce Conner, Sidney Poitier, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, For Love of Ivy, Charlie Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux, John Schlesinger, student films, an appreciation of Max Ophüls, reviews of Pauline Kael’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Andrew Sarris’s The American Cinema, Directors and Directions 1929-1968

Arthur Barron, Boris Karloff,  Ingmar Bergman and E.T.A. Hoffman, young German film, Ernst Lubitsch

Special issue on film in Sweden, Ingmar Bergman on his filmmaking process, Greta Garbo, Duet for Cannibals, Victor Sjostrom

Andrew Sarris on the auteur theory in 1970, Ken Russell interview, Milos Forman interview, David Bordwell on The Circus, Paul Jensen on Frankenstein, Richard Koszarski on Trouble In Paradise, Molly Haskell on Stage Fright, Stephen Farber on Lilith, William Pechter on The Wild Bunch, Bette Davis and William Wyler

Special issue on screenwriting, Borden Chase interview, James Poe interview, Anita Loos, Ben Hecht, Dudley Nichols, Preston Sturges in the Thirties

Yasujiro Ozu, François Truffaut, Bruce Baillie, visual anthropology, Margaret Mead, Tim Asch, James Whale, Andrew Sarris on The Searchers

André Bazin and long takes, special sections on F.W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Max Ophuls

John Ford’s late films, Alexander Dovzhenko, Roger Corman interview, Willard Maas interview, Monkey Business, Love Affair and An Affair to Remember, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, and Gérard Martin’s Wind from the East

Jean Cocteau, Stanley Kubrick interview, paranoia in Hollywood, Jacques Demy, Ernst Lubitsch in the Thirties, lost films, Alice Adams, Happiness, Robin Wood

Paul Schrader on film noir, Robert Aldrich interview, Cuban cinema, Klute, Dziga Vertov midsection, George Cukor interview

Elia Kazan’s America, Stockholm journal, Elia Kazan interview, Ernst Lubitsch’s Thirties films, Penelope Gilliatt interview, special midsection on cameramen, Carl Dreyer, Jacques Tourneur, Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life

Cannes, Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, John Wayne interview, Franklin Schaffner interview, Robin Wood on Bigger Than Life

Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles’s adaptation of Heart of Darkness, Frank Capra, Capra interview, 150 filmographies of female directors

Special issue: cinema sex, Radley Metzger interviewed, censorship in London and California, Russ Meyer interviewed by Stan Berkowitz and considered by Roger Ebert

Sergio Leone, David Newman and Robert Benton interviewed, Maurice Tourneur, Robin Wood on Mizoguchi, Dudley Andrew on André Bazin, Andrew Sarris on Max Ophuls’s Liebelei, Alain Jessua, Morgan Fisher

John Huston considered and interviewed, Jack Lemmon interviewed, Jacques Tati interviewed, Ken Russell’s biopics, voyeurism in film and literature, What Price Hollywood?, Raymond Durgnat

King Vidor, Stanley Donen interviewed, The Tall T, The Three Godfathers

Leo McCarey, King Vidor, The Poseidon Adventure, Such Good Friends, Up the Sandbox

Special issue on documentary film: An American Family, cinema verite, interview with Pat Loud, Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond and John Terry, Robert Flaherty, the documentaries of Georges Franju, Alain Resnais, Dušan Makavejev

Yakuza films by Paul Schrader; Leaving The Times Or: How I Came to Lose My Job as a Second-String Movie Critic by Alan Greenspun; Alain Resnais by Peter Harcourt; Malcolm McDowell by Raymond Durgnat; London, Paris, and Los Angeles journals

Tehran journal, Alfred Hitchcock by Andrew Sarris, Carl Dreyer by Robin Wood, Abel Gance interview, Marilyn Monroe by Raymond Durgnat, Robert Altman interview, Woody Allen by Leonard Maltin

Jonathan Rosenbaum on Erich von Stroheim, Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall interviewed, the New Yorker Theatre, A Hard Day’s Night ten years later and Richard Lester, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, Howard Hawks interviewed, Jean-Luc Godard’s Tout va Bien

Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman interviewed, Jean Renoir, Francis Ford Coppola interviewed, Luis Buñuel’s The Milky Way, Jack Clayton on The Great Gatsby, Molly Haskell’s From Reverence to Rape reviewed by Janet Sternburg

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

Special section on film noir actors, writers, directors, Fritz Lang, and more; Setsuko Hara, John Calley interview, Alexander Kluge interview, Max Ophul’s Letter from an Unknown Woman and La signora di tutti

Special Issue: The Hollywood Cartoon—Chuck Jones considered and interviewed, Warner Brothers, Disney, Grim Natwick interviewed, the Van Buren Studio, TV animation

Features on Old Hollywood and New Hollywood, The Scarlett Empress, The Merry Widow, On Dangerous Ground, Kiss Me Deadly, Paul Mazursky, Martin Scorsese interviewed, Mel Brooks interviewed; midsection on the personal documentary, film in pre-revolutionary Russia, movie costumes, and TV movies

The Day of the Locust: a review and John Schlesinger interviewed, Erich von Stroheim, Don Rugoff, Silk Stockings, Midsection: art direction/the avant-garde/video art, Dusan Makavejev, Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger, Jerry Lewis, Mike Nichols, Susan Sontag, David Denby, Lillian Hellman, and more on the censorship of Marcel Ophuls’s The Memory of Justice, Alain Resnais interviewed, populism and social realism, George Stevens

Kon Ichikawa, samurai films, on the set of Hitchcock’s Family Plot, Sydney Pollack interview, François Truffaut’s Story of Adele H., the Maysles’s Grey Gardens, Miklós Jancsó’s Electra, George Stevens, Jr. intervew