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November-December 1972

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

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London
By Ian Cameron

Paris
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

FRANK CAPRA UNDER CAPRACORN
By Stephen Handzo

CAPRA AND LANGDON
By Richard Leary

CAPRA AND RISKIN

By Richard Corliss

CAPRA TODAY

An interview by James Childs

ORSON WELLES: HEART OF DARKNESS

The introductory sequence to the unproduced film

THE VOICE AND THE EYE 

A commentary on the Heart of Darkness script
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

WOMEN DIRECTORS

150 filmographies 
compiled and introduced by Richard Henshaw

THE HITCHCOCK DILEMMA

LOST IN THE WOOD
By George Kaplan

FINE FRENZY
By William Johnson

FILM FAVORITES

Stuart Byron on The Iron Horse

BOOK REVIEWS


The Documentary Tradition: From Nanook to Woodstock ed. Lewis Jacobs
Documentary Explorations: 15 Interviews with Film-makers by G. Roy Levin
The New Documentary in Action by Alan Rosenthal
Perspectives on the Study of Film ed. John S. Katz
Reviewed by Jay Leyda

Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir by Garson Kanin
Mary Astor: A Life on Film by Mary Astor
Reviewed by Molly Haskell

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