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Fall 1971

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

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JOURNALS

Paris
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Los Angeles
By Jim Kitses

JOHN FORD

The late films of John Ford
By Robin Wood

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
By David Bordwell

The Civil War
By Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
An interview by Amos Vogel

SUPERFIGHT
By James Childs

THE DOVZHENKO PAPERS
By Marco Carynnyk

ROGER CORMAN

The films of Roger Corman
By Richard Koszarski

An interview with Roger Corman
By Charles Goldman

FILM FAVORITES

Joe Adamson on Monkey Business
Richard Corliss on Two Affairs to Remember

WILLARD MAAS
An interview by George Semsel

WIND FROM THE EAST
A review by Joan Mellen

BOOK REVIEWS

Negative Space by Manny Farber
Reviewed by Jim Kitses

Four Screenplays by Carl Dreyer and The Cinema of Carl Dreyer by Tom Milne
Reviewed by David Bordwell

Film Culture Reader ed. P. Adams Sitney
Reviewed by Bill Simon

Twenty-Four Times a Second: Films and Film-Makers by William S. Pechter
Reviewed by Robert Chappetta

Movies into Film by John Simon
Reviewed by John W. Locke

The Films of Hal Roach by William K. Everson
Reviewed by Leonard Maltin

The Serials: Suspense and Drama by Installment by Raymond William Stedman
Reviewed by Miles Kreuger

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