Author: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Film Quarterly (Fall 1982) [cover: Bob Hoskins in THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1982

Edition: (Vol. XXXVI, No. 1)

Seller ID: 25379

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, minimal handling wear]. (B&W photographs) This issue includes interviews with Hector Babenco (with special attention to his film PIXOTE) and Emile de Antonio (the latter interviewing himself). Articles: "Time and Stasis in LA JETÉE" (about the Chris Marker film); an analysis of three films by Walter Hill (SOUTHERN COMFORT, THE LONG RIDERS, and THE WARRIORS); an analysis of Jonathan Demme's MELVIN AND HOWARD and its connections with the work of Frank Capra. Film reviews: TIME BANDITS (Terry Gilliam), VICTOR/VICTORIA (Blake Edwards), THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (John MacKenzi...
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Film Quarterly (Spring 1983) [cover: ATOMIC CAFE]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1983

Edition: (Vol. XXXVI, No. 3)

Seller ID: 25419

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, just a trace of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: an interview with Vittorio Taviani; "Confessions of a Feminist Porn Watcher," by Scott MacDonald; "The Voice of Documentary," by Bill Nichols (including discussion of SOLDIER GIRLS, ROSIE THE RIVETER and WEDDING CAMELS); an article about racial discrimination and ethnographic filmmaking in Australia, with focus on the documentary film TWO LAWS; "Human Artifice and the Science Fiction Film," by J.P. Telotte (discussing THE THING, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and BLADE RUNNER). Films rev...
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Film Quarterly (Summer 1961) [cover: Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti in L'AVVENTURA]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1961

Edition: (Vol. XIV, No. 4)

Seller ID: 27795

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good

[minor wear, nice clean copy, some partially-erased writing in blue ink at top of front cover]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: "The Cinema Delimina: Films from the Underground," by Stan Vanderbeek; "Forbidden Fruit: The Nazi Feature Film, 1933-1945," by David Stewart Hull; and "Yugoslav Short Films," by Donald Richie. Especially interesting is the fourth article, "An American Film Institute: A Proposal," by Colin Young, a lengthy piece which represents an early conceptual floating of the idea of a national film institute that would ultimately come to fruition about six years later. (This p...
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Film Quarterly (Winter 1958) [cover: Sophia Loren in THE BLACK ORCHID]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1958

Edition: (Vol. XII, No. 2)

Seller ID: 27762

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good

[modest edgewear all around, some minor creasing in front cover, some red-ink underlining in the Minnelli article]. (B&W photographs) In the first three articles in this issue, grouped under the title "The Growing Edge," the authors tell of their personal encounters with three filmmakers: Satyajit Ray, Luis Bunuel, and Luigi Zampa (the latter piece incorporating an interview). Also in this issue: "Hollywood's Favorite Fable," in which Arthur Mayer discusses and debunks "the myth of the virtuous producer-distributor and the wicked exhibitor"; the first installment of an 2-part examination of t...
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Film Quarterly (Winter 1962-63) [cover: THE BIRDS]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1962

Edition: (Vol. XVI, No. 2)

Seller ID: 27678

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[nice clean copy, a bit of wear along spine, minor surface wear to covers]. (B&W photographs) The primary feature of this issue is a 20-page survey of "Special Features on Film Scholarship," including brief surveys of the resources of the major U.S. repositories of archival film history materials. Articles: "Hitchcock's World," by Charles Higham; "The Craft of Norman McLaren," by Ernest Callenbach; and "'Marienbadism' and the New Italian Directors," by Fernaldo di Giammatteo. Books reviewed include Gordon Hendricks's groundbreaking "The Edison Motion Picture Myth."
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Film Quarterly (Winter 1982-83) [cover: Willie Nelson in BARBAROSA]

By: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1982

Edition: (Vol. XXXVI, No. 2)

Seller ID: 27677

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, just a trace of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: an interview with Andrzej Wajda, then in Paris filming DANTON; "The Reference Shelf Shuffle," a critical review of film "encyclopedias, histories, and other supposedly authoritative sources of facts [that] are shot through with error and misinformation"; an article entitled "Slow Fade to Afro: The Black Presence in Brazilian Cinema." Films reviewed: BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott), THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP (George Roy Hill), ZOOT SUIT (Luis Valdez), RADIO ON (Chris Petit), and BARBAROSA (Fred Schepisi). Books r...
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Film Quarterly (Fall 1983) [cover: Sean Penn in BAD BOYS]

By: Callenbach, Ernest, ed.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1983

Edition: (Vol. XXXVII, No. 1)

Seller ID: 27928

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, essentially as-new with just a touch of wear along the spine]. (B&W photographs) Articles in this issue: "Yasujiro Ozu: Notes on a Retrospective," by Kathe Geist; "Confessions of a Feminist Porn Programmer," by Karen Jaehne. There are reviews of three contemporary films: Bertrand Tavernier's DEATH WATCH, Ingmar Bergman's FANNY AND ALEXANDER, and Richard Rosenthal's BAD BOYS. More than half of this issue's 65 pages, however, are devoted to reviews of the year's film books (actually a continuation of a feature that began in the Spring 1983 issue), including studies of directo...
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Film Quarterly (Spring 1982) [cover: Les Blank's ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE]

By: Callenbach, Ernest, ed.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1982

Edition: (Vol. XXXV, No. 3)

Seller ID: 25154

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Fine

[pristine copy, with no discernible wear]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: an interview with the great cinematographer Vittorio Storaro; a long analysis of Abel Gance's NAPOLEON; an examination of the work of documentary filmmaker Les Blank; an examination of the relationship of filmmaker Stan Brakhage's work to that of postmodernist poet Charles Olson. Also reviews of contemporary films: REDS; MONTENEGRO; and TAPS. Book reviewed include David Thomson's "Overexposures." (We have numerous other issues of this and other film-related periodicals that are not listed online; please inqui...
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Film Quarterly (Summer 1982) [cover: István Szabó's CONFIDENCE]

By: Callenbach, Ernest, ed.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1982

Edition: (Vol. XXXV, No. 4)

Seller ID: 25156

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[minor wear to front cover]. (B&W photographs) The primary feature of this issue is their annual round-up of the year's film books, with reviews or informative annotations on almost 100 books. Also in this issue: an interview with the renowned Hungarian filmmaker István Szabó; two articles, "Power and Dis-Integration in the Films of Orson Welles" by Beverle Houston, and "Harvard Film Studies: A Review" by Brian Henderson; and a review of Szabó's film CONFIDENCE (1980). (We have numerous other issues of this and other film-related periodicals that are not listed online; pleas...
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Film Quarterly (Winter 1981-1982) [cover: Hanna Schygulla in Fassbinder's LILI MARLEEN]

By: Callenbach, Ernest, ed.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1981-1982

Edition: (Vol. XXXV, No. 2)

Seller ID: 25153

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[upper section of front cover a little wrinkled, light external surface wear]. (B&W photographs) Article in this issue: "A Musical Comedy of Empire" by Brian Henderson, an analysis of of "imperialist machinations" underlying the Astaire-Rogers musical FLYING DOWN TO RIO (1933); "Le Nouveau Godard" by Peter Harcourt, an exploration of the director's SAUVE QUI PEUT (LA VIE) (1980); "M.P.A.A. Ratings and the Box Office," a statistical analysis. Also included is an interview with director Georges Franju, and reviews of these contemporary films: LILI MARLEEN; LIGHT...
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Film Quarterly (Spring 1963) [cover: lobby of the Fox Theatre, San Francisco]

By: {Kael, Pauline} Callenbach, Ernest, ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1963

Edition: (Vol. XVI, No. 3)

Seller ID: 22758

ISBN: NO

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[nice clean copy, minor rubbing/scuffing to rear cover, a little wear at extremities]. (B&W photographs) Founded in 1946 as "Hollywood Quarterly," this was one of the best "serious" film journal of its day, and one of its greatest pleasures was encountering the early film criticism of Pauline Kael, preceding her legendary stint at The New Yorker, which commenced in 1968. This issue, in addition to Kael's review of Peter Ustinov's BILLY BUDD (which she generally praises, but also typically uses to get in a shot at Lewis Milestone's "slovenly, incoherent" MUTINY ON THE ...
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Author: (Callenbach, Ernest, ed.)