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Summer 1964

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

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Anniversary Awards—Announcement of Winners

Ernest Pintoff, Fireman
By Stuart A. Selby

Survey among Unsuccessful Applicants for the Ford Foundation Film Grants

Moravia on Italian Film
By Robert Connolly

The Death of Mickey Mouse
By Harriet Polt

Carl Foreman in Israel
By Uri Oren

Toward Visual Cinema
By Kirk Smallman

Some Good New European Features
By Gideon Bachman

Notes on the Fordham Film Conference
By Stephen Taylor

Film Reviews

The Organiser
By Yale Udoff

The Silence
By Stephen Taylor

Book Reviews

Harlow: An Intimate Biography by Irving Shulman
Reviewed by Harry Feldman

Copyrights by Barbara A. Ringer and Paul Gitlin
Reviewed by George Schiffer

The Contemporary Cinema by Penelope Houston
Reviewed by James Blue

The Cleopatra Papers by Jack Brodsky and Nathan Weiss
Reviewed by Harry Feldman

Letters to the Editor