Movietone News No. 50, June 28, 1976
Hey, Mom, Where’s My Suicide Note Collection? (published on Parallax View here)
Samuel Fuller interviewed
By Richard Thompson
“When it’s night time … ”: Myth and the Geography of the Unconscious in I Shot Jesse James (published on Parallax View here)
By Rick Hermann
The Steel Helmet: “I’ve got a hunch we’re all going around in circles” (published on Parallax View here)
By Kathleen Murphy
Run of the Arrow: Birth Pangs of the United States (published on Parallax View here)
By Rick Hermann
Creature Contact (published on Parallax View here)
Ricocheting off the walls with Sam Fuller
By Richard T. Jameson
You Only Live Once
Letters
The German Question
Tracking Shot
Quickies
The Omen; Vincent, François, Paul and the Others; Salut, l’artiste; The Gospel According to St. Matthew; Mother, Jugs and Speed; Grey Gardens, The Missouri Breaks, That’s Entertainment, Part Two; Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Crazies; The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday; Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood; Midway; Logan’s Run; Robin and Marian; The Killer Elite; Shoot
(reviews by Robert Cumbow, Ken Eisler, Rick Hermann, Richard T. Jameson, Kathleen Murphy, Douglas F. Palau and Gregg Way)
Just Like She Was Before She Was
An interview with Lina Wertmuller
By Judy Zito
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Movietone News No. 51, August 29, 1976
The “Commercial” Life of Luis Buñuel (published on Parallax View here)
Following the footsteps of the master between landmarks
By Peter Hogue
The Films of Lamont Johnson: Two for the Doghouse (published on Parallax View here)
Some recurrent themes and tactics in the feature-film work of a possible auteur, with particular concentration on Lipstick
By Robert C. Cumbow
You Only Live Once
Stardust (published on Parallax View here)
An appreciation of Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth
By Pierre Greenfield
Woody Allen: Together Again for the First Time (published on Parallax View here)
A few things Woody’s fans wish you didn’t know about him, and were afraid you’d ask
By Gregg Way
In Black & White
Film books of/on Nashville and King Kong (Nashville published on Parallax View here, King King on Parallax View here)
Letters
Unexpected erosion of Hawks’ Red River
Au milieu du monde: Alain Tanner and Swiss Film (published on Parallax View here)
An interview with the director
By James Monaco
Quickies
Lifeguard, Une Partie de Plaisir, La Vallee, Matatabi (The Wanderers), Swashbuckler, From Beyond the Grave, The Missouri Breaks, Never Give Up-Imogen Cunningham, End of the Game, Embryo, The Big Bus, Brewster McCloud
(reviews by Trudy Bates, Robert Cumbow, Ken Eisler and Richard T. Jameson)
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Movietone News No. 52, October 11, 1976
The Great American Eating Machine (published on Parallax View here)
Steven Spielberg’s Duel, The Sugarland Express and Jaws-food for thought
By Robert C. Cumbow
Another Side of Sam Peckinpah (published on Parallax View here)
Time and tension in Jr. Bonner and The Ballad of Cable Hogue
By Rick Hermann
Gotterdammerung in Technicolor: Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious (published on Parallax View here)
A formal appreciation of the great director’s utterly singular Fifties western
By Richard T. Jameson
Letters
Continuing the inquiry into the two Red Rivers
You Only Live Once
Film noir at the Art Museum and “Recent Hitchcock” at the UW
Quickies
The Outlaw Josey Wales; St. Ives; Crime and Passion; Food of the Gods; Gator; Veronique, or L’Ete de mes 13 ans; The Tenant; Vigilante Force; Stay Hungry; The Return of a Man Called Horse; The Bingo Long Travelling All-stars and Motor Kings; A Matter of Time; Scorchy
(reviews by Robert Cumbow, Norman Hale, Rick Hermann, Michael Tarantino and Richard T. Jameson)
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Movietone News No. 53, January 16, 1977
1976, Which Will Be Charitably Forgotten by the Year 2000 (published on Parallax View here)
A survey of Seattle Film Year 1976
By Richard T. Jameson
plus Ten Best Lists by other MTN writers
Moments out of Time (published on Parallax View here)
Lines, gestures, looks and sounds and moods-some good memories from new films in 1976
Blood and Ashes (published on Parallax View here)
John Wayne, trolley car wheels, shrinking horizons and Donald Siegel’s The Shootist, considered
By Rick Hermann
The New Life Begins: Dantean Obsession in Obsession (published on Parallax View here)
Brian De Palma meets Dante Alighieri, in Florence and elsewhere
By Robert C. Cumbow, with Grace A. Cumbow
Now That’s More Like It (published on Parallax View here)
A report on the 20th San Francisco Film Festival
By Peter Hogue
You Only Live Once
Quickies
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; Carrie; Cousin, Cousine; The Outlaw Josey Wales; King Kong; Silent Movie; The Next Man
(reviews by Robert Cumbow, Rick Hermann, Richard T. Jameson and Gregg Way)
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Movietone News No. 54: June 20,1977
“You’re Goddam Right I Remember” (published on Parallax View here)
An interview with Howard Hawks
By Kathleen Murphy and Richard T. Jameson
Of Babies, Bones and Butterflies (published on Parallax View here)
The red and green worlds of Howard Hawks, explored
By Kathleen Murphy
Tracking Shot
In Black & White (published on Parallax View here)
James Monaco’s The New Wave, reviewed
By Peter Hogue
Mysteries of the Organism
Character consciousness and narrative form in Werner Herzog’s The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser and Victor Erice‘s Spirit of the Beehive
By Dana Benelli
You Only Live Once
Poem
“On a Shocking Sequence in Wenders’ Kings of the Road”
By Ken Eisner
Quickies
Slap Shot, Annie Hall, Cross of Iron, The Front Page, Bound for Glory (1), Bound for Glory (2), The Old Gun, The Enforcer, Rocky, F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
(reviews by Robert Cumbow, Pierre Greenfield, Rick Hermann and Richard T. Jameson)
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Movietone News No. 55: September 16, 1977
“… they take on their own life… “ (published on Parallax View here)
An interview with Robert Altman
By Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy
“You Have to Go Through Hollywood to Get to Your House”
Welcome to L.A. examined
By Dana Benelli
Ruggles of Red Gap: The Social Mythos of Leo McCarey (published on Parallax View here)
An analysis
By Leland A. Poague
Tracking Shot
You Only Live Once
Including a special section on Olympia
By Robert C. Cumbow
Quickies
Lumiere, The Spy Who Loved Me, One on One, Monsieur Verdoux, Sorcerer, Star Wars, It’s Raining in Santiago
(reviews by Robert Cumbow, David Chute, Pierre Greenfield and Richard T. Jameson)
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Movietone News No. 56: November 4, 1977
The Light Is Dark Enough
Film noir comedies of the Forties, surveyed
By James Damico
The Cosmos and Its Discontents
An examination of Aguirre, the Wrath of God as Werner Herzog’s “remake” of Signs of Life
By Dana Benelli
Erratum
Restoring an anecdote in last issue’s interview with Robert Altman
The Face Behind the Mask
Show business and swashbuckling in George Sidney’s Scaramouche
By Douglas McVay
The Devil’s Parties (published on Parallax View here)
Recent dabblings in cinematic diabolism
By Pierre Greenfield
Tracking Shot
You Only Live Once
Quickies
Equus, Damnation Alley, A City at Chandigarh, Jabberwocky, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, New York New York, Black and White in Color, Suspiria
(reviews by Robert Cumbow, David C. Chute, Jeremy Rothbaum, Michael Tarantino and Richard T. Jameson)
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Movietone News No. 57: February 22, 1978
At Home on the Road (published on Parallax View here)
Two interviews in one with Wim Wenders
By Judith M. Kass
Hawks, Chandler & The Big Sleep (published on Parallax View here)
On the overlapping of auteurs
By Peter Hogue
New York CA 90028 (published on Parallax View here)
Martin Scorsese’s detour to fantasyland
By James Monaco
Slap Shots
Looking for Mr. Goodflick, 1977 (published on Parallax View here)
By Richard T. Jameson
with Ten Best lists from our Contributing Writers
Moments out of Time (published on Parallax View here)
Scenes, movements, gestures, moods in the films of ’77
Manners, Morals, and Murder (published on Parallax View here)
Sleuth and Murder on the Orient Express revisited
By Pierre Greenfield
You Only Live Once
Rene Clair, George Sanders, and the repertory scene
In Black & White (published on Parallax View here)
Vampire cinema and How to Read a Film, reviewed
By Robert C. Cumbow
Quickies
Dersu Uzala, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Telefon, Uncle Silas, First Love, A Bridge Too Far, The Choirboys
(reviews by Robert Cumbow, Rick Hermann, Douglas McVay and Richard T. Jameson)
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Movietone News Double Issue No. 58-59: August 14, 1978
“It’s time to come inside now” (published on Parallax View here)
An appreciation of Robert Altman’s 3 Women
By Robert C. Cumbow
Houses, Phones and Cars: Domestic Spaces in The Reckless Moment (published on Parallax View here)
Max Ophuls looks at suburban California c. 1949
By Norman Hale
Tracking Shot
Getting What You Need (published on Parallax View here)
Changing Surrealist vision in Luis Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and That Obscure Object of Desire
By Julie Ahrens
“Directing doesn’t start on the floor” (published on Parallax View here)
Claude Coretta and Isabelle Huppert interviewed
By Judith M. Kass
“Stop-and be friendly” (published on Parallax View here)
Making contact with Steven Spielberg’s CE3K
By Pierre Greenfield
In Black & White (published on Parallax View here)
Seven structuralist books, catalogues and things, reviewed
By Peter Hogue
You Only Live Once
Quickies
The Buddy Holly Story, An Unmarried Woman, Coma, Celine and Julie Go Boating, The Chosen, The Driver, Saturday Night Fever, Straight Time, Short Eyes, Salo, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Eyes of Laura Mars, Julia, Bahia, Communion (Alice, Sweet Alice), Bobby Deerfield, Eraserhead, Thunder and Lightning, Otley, The Turning Point, High Anxiety, Convoy, Coup pour coup
(reviews by Robert Cumbow, Ken Eisler, Pierre Greenfield, Peter Hogue, Tom Keogh, Douglas McVay and Richard T. Jameson)
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