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
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
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
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
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
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