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Movietone News No. 47, January 21, 1976

A New Map of the Labyrinth: The Unretouched Touch of Evil
There’s now more to see than ever in Orson Welles’ American-nightmare masterpiece
-described
By John Belton

On the Absence of the Grail
Style, meaning, and Meaning in Robert Bresson’s Lancelot du Lac
By Alan Williams

Love among the Ruins
Browsing over Seattle film year 1975, with Ten Best Lists by MTN Contributing Writers and commentary
By Richard T. Jameson

Moments out of Time (published on Parallax View here)
Scenes, shots, stances, sensations onscreen in ’75
-remembered
By Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy

Letters

Quickies
Dog Day Afternoon, The Nickel Ride, La Vie rêvée, Conduct Unbecoming, The Sunshine Boys, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, The Romantic Englishwoman
(reviews by Robert Cumbow, Ken Eisler, Rick Hermann, Richard T. Jameson)

A pdf of the original issue can be found here
Movietone News No. 47 (.pdf)

Movietone News No. 48, February 29, 1976

Back Door to Personal Expression
The blessings of B-dom. William K. Howard’s Back Door to Heaven, appreciated
By James Damico

Tracking Shot

D.O.A. and the Notion of Noir
Journey to the end of night
By Richard Dorfman

Closing Down the Open Road: Detour (published on Parallax View here)
Life among the process screens, savored
By David Coursen

Letters

In Black & White
“B” Movies and Kings of the Bs, reviewed
By Peter Hogue
The Birth of the Talkies, reviewed
By Claudia Gorbman

Touch of Evil: Removing the Evidence
Unretouching an important article

You Only Live Once
“The American Dream” for UW LecCon

A Piece of The Cobweb
A note on suggestive mise-en-scene
By Dana Benelli

Quickies
Barry Lyndon (2), The Magic Flute, Hearts of the World, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Between Friends, The Man Who Would Be King; Take It Like a Man, Madam
(reviews by Robert C. Cumbow, Ken Eisler, Rick Hermann, Richard T. Jameson, Douglas F. Palau)

A pdf of the original issue can be found here
Movietone News No. 48 (.pdf)

Movietone News No. 49, April 18, 1976

The Richard Lester Sitting-Still Film (published on Parallax View here)
The peripatetic director of The Three Musketeers, Juggernaut and now Robin and Marian, interviewed
By James Monaco

Still Life: Robin and Marian (published on Parallax View here)
“Ripeness is all” in the new Richard Lester film
By Kathleen Murphy

Misère-en-scène: Young German Filmmakers on Dangerous Ground
Fear—and other good things—eat soul in the Federal Republic: a report
By Rick Rentschler

Une Femme sauvage (published on Parallax View here)
New insights into Truffaut’s L’Histoire d’Adele H.
By Robert C. Cumbow

The Harte of Hollywood
“But Mr. Dwan, if you liked that story … ” – Tennessee’s Partner as a how-not-to textbook of adaptation
By James Damico

Letters

You Only Live Once (published on Parallax View here)
Moore-Egyptian as international treasure-house

Quickies
Lipstick, The Man Who Would Be King, Pather Panchali , I Will, I Will … for Now; The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, Le Magnifique, All the President’s Men, Breakheart Pass, Gable and Lombard
(reviews by Sharon Green, Rick Hermann, Richard T. Jameson, Alan Williams)

A pdf of the original issue can be found here
Movietone News No. 49 (.pdf)