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May-June 1977

The Hollywood Gangster and the Hollywood G-Man, Jean-Louis Comolli's La Cecilia and Jean-Luc Godard's Numero Deux, screenwriter John M. Stahl, Woody Allen's Annie Hall, Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson interviewed, on the set of One Life to Live

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JOURNALS
Moving, by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Los Angeles, by Mitch Tuchman

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, U.S.A.
The Hollywood Gangster, 1927-1933
By Andrew Sarris

The Hollywood G-Man, 1934-1945
By Carlos Clarens

REALISM AND REVOLUTION
Comolli’s La Cecilia and Godard’s Numero Deux
By Robin Wood

JOHN M. STAHL
The Man Who Understood Women
By George Morris

MIDSECTION
Television: Michael Kerbel on scanning
Independents: Amos Vogel Discovers Gary Beydler
Guest Column: George W.S. Trow on Annie Hall
The Industry: Jan Dawson on the Filmverlag Follies

TERMITES
Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson interviewed by Richard Thompson

SOAP OPERAS
A Day in the Life of One Life to Live
By James McCourt

CINEMANNERISM
The Great British Phantasmagoria
By Raymond Durgnat

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