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March-April 1979

Column

Journals:Paris by Gilbert Adair
Journals: LA by Todd McCarthy
Industry: Fourth Annual Grosses Gloss by Stuart Byron
Independents by Amos Vogel
Television by Daniel Menaker
Back Talk by Todd McCarthy

Feature

Visconti’s Magnificent Obsessions by Donald Lyons
The Innocent: Visconti’s Last Fresco by James McCourt
Stalking ‘The Deer Hunter’ by Terry Curtis Fox
Renoir: Our Teacher by John Bragin
The Big Hitch by David Thomson
An Acre of Seats in a Garden of Dreams by Elliott Stein
The Importance of Winning Oscar by Andrew Sarris
The State as Movie Mogul by Charles Eidsvik

Interview

Milos Foreman by Todd McCarthy
W.C. Fields at 100 by Peter W. Kaplan

Book Review

Books: Mildred Pierce Meets the Bad Seed by Elliott Sirkin
Books: Three Welles books by Tag Gallagher

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