Movietone News No. 20, January 1973
No Time for Playtime
Being about as sordid an account as one could ask for of the royal screwing of one comedic genius and various well-meaning exhibitors
By James N. Selvidge
Jour de Fete
Memories of a lost classic
By James N. Selvidge
On the Rise
Griffith, Capra, Cukor, and various Frenchmen coming our way
By R C Dale
Play It Again, Sam the Lion
Film, 1972: how it looked from Seattle – one man’s view
By Richard T. Jameson
Ten (more or less) Best (more or less) Lists from various SFS members and friends
Moments out of Time (published on Parallax View here)
Treasured scenes, memorable lines, fondest inklings from new films of the past year, good or bad
By Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy
You Only Live Once
Keeping tabs on the Edgemont, Movie House, Exit, CineMond, Granada
Movietone News No. 21, February 1973
All This, and Heaven Too
On the international brotherhood of film freaks with especial reference to profession freakdom in Paris
By David Willingham
Performance
Movements in mysterious ways, and wonders performed
By R C Dale
Meet Frank Capra
A fortnight of activities
By Richard T. Jameson
Biographical notes
By Bill McDaniel
You Only Live Once
Tracking Shot
Letters
MTN 1-20: An Index
Everything to wanted to know about MTN and now you needn’t bother to ask, compiled
By Joanne Euster
Quickies
Travels With My Aunt, Play it as it Lays, Young Winston, Pete ‘n’ Tillie, The Poseidon Adventure, Glen and Randa, Innocent Bystanders, They Only Kill Their Masters
(reviews by Alix Christofides, Richard T. Jameson, Kathleen Murphy)
Movietone News No. 22, April 1973
Au hasard, Bresson
An intensive stylistic analysis of the latest film by a European master, with references to others of his films
By David Willingham
A Capra Scrapbook
Letters
The Haunted Screen
A true story of demonic possession, with the forces of light and right triumphant; plus advice on keeping the peace
By R C Dale
You Only Live Once
French films in series at the UW, Warners in excelsis, The Sorrow and the Pity in Redmond
Quickies
Sounder, The Train Robbers, Cries and Whispers, Meatball, The Heartbreak Kid, Steelyard Blues, The Ruling Class, Jeremiah Johnson, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Save the Tiger
(reviews by Richard T. Jameson, Kathleen Murphy, L.R. Pierre, William E. Smith)
Movietone News No. 23, May-June 1973
The Long Goodbye
Looking backward, and the view’s just fine
By R C Dale
” … Tough ole hide … ” (published on Parallax View here)
Goin’ down the road with Sam Peckinpah
By David Willingham
In Black & White
Writing about writing about American movies
By Peter Hogue
Letters and Exchanges
Tracking Shot
You Only Live Once
Quickies
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Sleuth, Roma, The Day of the Jackal, The Thief Who Came to Dinner, Scorpio, Two People, Cahill – United States Marshal, Cesar and Rosalie
(reviews by Claudia Gorbman, Richard T. Jameson)
Movietone News No. 24, July-August 1973
Hard Times are A-comin’
Beating around the mulberry bush again: the Burger Court achieves its masterpiece
By James N. Selvidge
Meanwhile, Deeper into (Sex) Movies
Art in the ascendant: the implications of Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones, et. Al. for porn and the cinema
By James N. Selvidge
Zsigmond at CineMond
A great cameraman takes Cinderella liberty and spends an evening with the SFS
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In Black & White
Graham Greene on Film and Eisner’s Murnau
Letter and Exchanges
You Only Live Once
Quickies
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Scarecrow, Slither, Paper Moon, O Lucky Man!, Il Decamerone, The Hireling, La Bete Humaine, This is Cinerama, Wedding in White, Dillinger, A Touch of Class, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, Oklahoma Crude, High Plains Drifter, Live and Let Die
(reviews by Scott Mugford, Peter Hogue, Richard T. Jameson, Lindsay Michimoto, Kathleen Murphy, L.R. Pierre, Kenneth C. Robinson)
Movietone News No. 25, September 1973
Five Sleazy Pieces
Would you like to have Herbert Ross’s job? Ted Post’s” Bruce Geller’s? You’ve got it, baby!
By Kathleen Murphy
Of Staircases and Potato Trucks: Fear and Fatness and Alfred Hitchcock
A vertiginous descent into the director’s world
By Robert C. Cumbow
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In Black & White
More books on American cinema reviewed
By Peter Hogue
The Only Good Indian reviewed
By Richard T. Jameson
Production Unit
Notes on the area‘s first filmmaking school
By David Willingham
Letters and Exchanges
You Only Live Once
Japanese cinema at the UW, Mon Oncle Antoine in Edmonds, Sacco and Vanzetti in Redmond, Bergman on da toob
Quickies
The Long Goodbye, The Spider’s Stratagem and The Last Tango in Paris, Godspell, Paper Moon, Soylent Green, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Private Parts, White Lightning
(reviews by Robert C. Cumbow, Ken Eisler, David Harrell, Peter Hogue, Richard T. Jameson, Scott Mugford, Judith Rieben)
Movietone News No. 26, October 1973
Money and Pain
A short history of the idea of the movie producer, plus an interview with Alan J. Pakula—the first in a series of articles about the patterns of power in the making of a movie
By R C Dale
Production Unit
Notes on Seattle filmmaker Låszlo Pål
By David Willingham
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You Only Live Once
Ozu’s Tokyo Story at the CineMond, Ford and Hawks at the Edgemont, classic comedy at the Exit, and Le Cinema des Femmes at the SAM
John Ford (1895-1973)
A special center section
Quickies
Man Oncle Antoine, The Last American Hero, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Enter the Dragon, Blume in Love, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf, Savages, The Last of Sheila, Sacco and Vanzetti, The Maltese Falcon, Kid Blue, Raw Meat, Lady Ice, Paper Moon, Child’s Play
(reviews by Robert C. Cumbow, David Harrell, Jon Hennes, Peter Hogue, Richard T. Jameson, Kathleen Murphy)
Movietone News No. 27, November 1973
Meep-Meep
The cinema of Chuck Jones: “a continuous Technicolor ribbon of meep meeps, woo–woos, explosions, and what‘s up Docs”
By Richard Thompson
Bellevue, Coming and Going
A short history of the film festival across the water
By Kenneth C. Robinson
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In Black & White
Peter Bogdanovich‘s Pieces of Time, reviewed
By Gregory Dean Way
The Great Movies, reviewed
By Richard T. Jameson
Liv Ullmann in Seattle
Production Unit
Cartoons in a taxidermy shop: Coffin and Company, Inc.
By David Willingbam
Letters
You Only Live Once
Featuring a new department: telly!
By Scott Mugford
Quickies
The Stone Killer, American Graffiti, Happy Mother’s Day-Love, George, Payday, Electra Glide in Blue, The Mackintosh Man, Charley Varrick, Pink Flamingos, Walking Tall, Bang the Drum Slowly, I Could Never Have Sex with Any Man Who Has So Little Regard for My Husband, The Public Eye, Scalawag, Mystery of the Wax Museum
(reviews by Robert C. Cumbow, R C Dale, Richard T. Jameson, Kathleen Murphy, L.R. Pierre, Jon Purdy)
Movietone News No. 28, December 1973
Two Weeks in Another Town
Down in the labyrinth ways with a film freak in search of cinema exotica in Mexico City
By Ken Eisler
The Red Baron Meets the Aztec Mummy
Meanwhile, in the outlying areas
By Joanne Euster
Days and Nights in the Frisco Light Trap: 1973
Our Man at the San Francisco Film Festival—and elsewhere
By Peter Hogue
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In Black & White
Edward G. Robinson’s autobiography, reviewed
By Richard T. Jameson
Val Lewton, reviewed
By Kathleen Murphy
Written on the Wind
Part two of Footlight Parade, a series on the collaborative elements of cinema; this issue: the screenwriter
By R C Dale
Letters
You Only Live Once
Quickies
The Outside Man, The New Land. The Mattei Affair, The Paper Chase, Westworld, The Way We Were, Cops and Robbers, A Doll’s House, Executive Action, Santee
(reviews by Robert C. Cumbow, Joanne Euster, Stephen George, David Harrell, Richard T. Jameson, Kathleen Murphy, Jon Purdy)
Movietone News No. 29, January-February 1974
Blues for Mr. Chandler
In the dark night of the film noir soul, a disenchanted look at The Long Goodbye
By Kathleen Murphy
Limelight
Seattle film year 1973 cut and dried, with a certain amount of judicious sidestepping
By Richard T. Jameson
Moments out of Time (published on Parallax View here)
Scenes, lines, stances, echoes: a montage of 1973
By Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy
Erasable Bond
You only live twice—or is Roger Moore thrice?
By Robert C. Cumbow
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Yes, We Have No Bananas
Do you dream in Technicolor? Impressions of Busby Berkeley’s The Gang’s All Here
By R C Dale
Production Unit
Hollywood on the Sound: down and dirty at the Office of Economic Development
By David Willingham
You Only Live Once
Quickies
The Homecoming, American Graffiti, Aguirre—The Wrath of God, Sleeper, Papillon, Robin Hood, Magnum Force, Macunaima, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Way We Were, Ash Wednesday, Dead Pigeon on Beethovenstrasse
(reviews by R C Dale, Ken Eisler, Stephen George, David Harrell, Richard T. Jameson, Jon Purdy, Ken Robinson)