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July-August 1975

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

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THE PASSENGER
By Ted Perry
Plus: Michelangelo Antonioni interviewed by Renee Epstein

JERRY LEWIS
By Jean-Pierre Coursodon

FILM MAUDIT DOSSIER
Marcel Ophuls’ The Memory of Justice
Statements by Jay Cocks, David Denby, Barbara Epstein, Lillian Hellman, Mike Nichols, Frank Rich, John Simon, Susan Sontag, Telford Taylor
The Silencing of Serge Paradjanov
By Antonin Liehm
Film Censorship in Yugoslavia
By Dusan Makavejev

POPULISM AND SOCIAL REALISM
By Raymond Durgnat

MIDSECTION
The Industry: Paul Sarlat on Actors’ Salaries
Television: Larry Lichty on Closing Night for the Vietnam War
Guest Column: James McCourt on Promised Lands
Independents: Amos Vogel on Film Structures

IN DEFENSE OF ART
By Robin Wood

GEORGE STEVENS
Three wartime comedies

THE HAPPY BOOKER
George Mansour, Jr., interviewed by Janet Maslin

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