[very nice copy, with just a bit of surface wear to covers] (B&W photographs) Feature article (with filmographies) on John Barrymore and Dolores Costello; an interview with Rene Clair; an interview with Robert Wise, on his early career at RKO; " On Location with Billy Wellman" by Louise Brooks (about the making of BEGGARS OF LIFE); reviews (with related filmographies) of EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX* (Woody Allen), JEREMIAH JOHNSON (Sydney Pollack), ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (William Sterling), LA RUPTURE ( Claude Chabrol) and DUEL (Steven Spielberg). View More...
[nice clean copy, light external wear only, very slight bumping to corners of front cover]. (B&W photographs) A special issue featuring filmographies for approximately 150 cinematographers. (Issue no. 17 featured a significant number of additions and corrections to these filmographies.) ***NOTE that we have many issues of this and other film-related periodicals that are not listed online, and we welcome your inquiries. View More...
[light surface wear to covers]. (B&W photographs) Feature articles (with filmographies) on Leo McCarey; interviews with Robert Wise (on his years at 20th Century-Fox) and Fred Zinnemann; an article on GREED (Erich von Stroheim); retrospective review of EASY LIVING (1949); reviews (with related filmographies) of THE EMIGRANTS, SLEUTH, BROTHER SUN SISTER MOON, PETE 'N' TILLIE, TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT (George Cukor), THE THIEF WHO CAME TO DINNER, BEQUEST TO THE NATION and SAVE THE TIGER. View More...
[nice clean copy, slight wear to base of spine, a little scuffed area at top center front cover]. (B&W photographs) Feature article (with filmography) on Sir Carol Reed; interview with Garson Kanin (specifically talking about his early years in Hollywood and his film work during World War II; includes filmography); article, "Max Reinhardt and the Cinema"; four pages of corrections and additions to the "Great Cameramen" issue (no. 13); reviews (with related filmographies) of WESTWORLD, AMERICAN GRAFFITI (George Lucas), SERPICO (Sidney Lumet), DON QUIXOTE (the film of the ballet,... View More...
[minor wear along spine and edges]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: an interview with John Schlesinger; an article (with filmography) on Twentieth Century-Fox and CinemaScope; an article, "Eagle-Lion, the Violent Years," by Don Miller (including a filmography of the studio's crime films, 1947-1951); an article/interview on Nancy Coleman (including filmography); an article on the Empire Leicester Square cinema. View More...
[some wear along spine, one small stain on rear cover]. (B&W photographs) The theme of the issue is "Films and History," with articles on CROMWELL ( Ken Hughes), Sergei Bondarchuk (with special reference to WATERLOO) and " Ronald Colman and the Cinema of Empire." Also includes reviews (with the usual accompanying filmographies of principals) of: LE SAMOURAI (Jean- Pierre Melville), EROTISSIMO (Gerard Pires), LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS (Cy Howard); plus a retrospective look at MIDNIGHT (Mitchell Leisen; screenplay by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder). Also: book reviews and ... View More...
[moderate external wear, some creasing to front cover]. (B&W photographs) Major article on Douglas Fairbanks (Sr.) by DeWitt Bodeen; article, "The American B Film: A Fond Appreciation" by Don Miller; an interview ( including filmography) with humorist/screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart; reviews (with related filmographies) of MONTE WALSH (William A. Fraker) and THE RITE (Ingmar Bergman); a survey of the 50 best musical films available on 16mm. View More...
[a nice clean copy with faint handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) This issue of this respected academic film journal is devoted to case histories of the development and production of a several films of the 1930s and 1940s, with a focus on the workings of the Hollywood studio system. The films (and studios) thus examined are: BLONDE VENUS (Paramount, 1932; directed by Josef von Sternberg); JEZEBEL (Warner Bros., 1938; directed by William Wyler); THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (United Artists, 1940; directed by John Ford); JANE EYRE (20th Century-Fox, 1943; directed by Robert Stevenson; much of this ... View More...
[very nice copy, with just a touch of edgewear and some very light soiling to the rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Special issue devoted to "Women and Film." Includes: a pictorial tribute to George Cukor (including pictorial coverage of his latest film, THE BLUE BIRD); short articles on Alice Guy Blach, Blanche Sweet, Nina Mae McKinney, Ruth Gordon, Linda Stirling, Verna Fields, Sue Mengers, Theadora Van Runkle, Shirley Russell, Polly Platt, and Isabelle Adjani (ref. Truffaut's THE STORY OF ADELE H.). [We have numerous issues of this and other film-related periodicals that are not listed onlin... View More...
[some dampstaining along the spine (mostly visible on rear cover), bleed-through to a few interior pages]. (B&W photographs, ads) Monthly magazine of the American Society of Cinematographers, a very technically-oriented publication with plenty of information (articles and advertisements) related to the latest equipment, technical processes and production techniques then in use in the Hollywood motion picture industry. Although the film WHITE CHRISTMAS is featured on the cover (with a nice shot of Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, director Michael Curtiz and cinematographer Loyal Griggs), the tie-in a... View More...
[nice clean, non-subscription copy (no address label affixed), with just a touch of wear at a couple of corners]. The primary feature of this issue is the 20-page cover story on Oliver Stone's controversial film NATURAL BORN KILLERS, incorporating an interview with co-star Juliette Lewis, and a separate long interview with Stone. (Was NBK really "the most controversial film of the decade," though?) Also in this issue: reports from that year's Cannes and Houston film festivals, and a feature called "Idol Threats," blurbed as follows: "Meet some bright new faces in the biz.... View More...
[some wear at edges and corners, a couple of short creases in front cover]. (B&W photographs) Issue devoted primarily to German cinema. Contents: an analysis of the influence of Berthold Brecht on the film medium; a discussion of three films by Werner Herzog "seen in the light of the grotesque" (EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL, FATA MORGANA and AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD); analysis of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT; a selection of writings by Alexander Kluge; analysis of Jean-Marie Straub's NOT RECONCILED; an analysis of the 1942 Nazi documentary DER EWIGE JUDE... View More...
[a little scuffing to covers and other light external wear]. (B&W photographs) Special issue devoted to Howard Hawks, inspired by the director's recent participation in the Athens (Ohio) International Film Festival. Contains articles by Alexandre Astruc (a general appreciation + an analysis of RIO LOBO), William Luhr (article about "Patterns of Continuity in RIO BRAVO, EL DORADO and RIO LOBO), and Marilyn Campbell (analysis of HIS GIRL FRIDAY); plus a 30-page "private interview" with Hawks conducted by editor Lehman and other journal staff members. Rounding out the issue is an ana... View More...
[modest edgewear to covers, very short diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover, some light staining on rear cover, a bit of dog-earing along bottom edge of rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents: "Spectator-Viewer," by Robert T. Eberwein; "The American Film Musical: Paradigmatic Structure and Mediatory Function," by Charles F. Altman; "On the Naked Thighs of Miss Dietrich," by Peter Baxter (an analysis of THE BLUE ANGEL); "Cultivating [Ingmar] Bergman's Strawberry Patch: The Emergence of a Cinematic Idea," by Joseph Donohoe; "Point/Counterpoint in HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR," by Will... View More...
[virtually as-new, faint handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) Special issue devoted to director John Ford, including articles by Jean Mitry, William C. Siska, Douglas Gomery, Richard Abel, Peter Lehman, Marilyn Campbell and Michael Budd; specific films/topics covered include MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, YOUNG MR. LINCOLN, THE QUIET MAN, and Ford's Westerns. The issue also includes an interview with Wim Wenders and a Wenders bibliography, an analysis of Nasgisa Oshima's work with focus on IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, and a review of Bruce Kawin's book "Faulkner and Film." ***NOTE that we have many ... View More...
[just a touch of wear at spine ends, otherwise as new]. (B&W photographs) Includes: an article by David Bordwell about the aesthetics of the jump cut (with much reference to the work of Jean-Luc Godard); a discussion of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1919) as an exemplar of the "art cinema"; an attempt to parse out the "authorship" of COME AND GET IT (1936), the direction of which was split between Howard Hawks and William Wyler; an analysis of THE LADY IN THE LAKE (1946), based on the Raymond Chandler novel; "The One Woman," an excruciatingly detailed discourse on the psycho-sexual-aesthetic s... View More...
[very nice copy, minimal wear, light age-toning at page edges; no subscription label or other markings]. (B&W photographs, ads) Monthly magazine of the American Society of Cinematographers, a very technically-oriented publication with plenty of information (articles and advertisements) related to the latest equipment, technical processes and production techniques then in use in the Hollywood motion picture industry. The cover story and primary article is a 4-page piece, illustrated with numerous photographs, about the filming of THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE, directed by Roger Corman and ... View More...
[a lovely, almost flawless copy -- newsstand-fresh, you might say, with just a couple teensy spots of wear along the folding edge of the front cover]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A terrific issue of this important (and well-designed) critical film journal, with a gorgeous deep-purple-tinted shot of Betty Grable -- her famous WWII pin-up pose -- that folds out (both front and rear) to four times the size of the magazine itself (approx. 35" x 12"). Contents include: "Every Young Man's Capsule Guide to The Pin-Up"; an interview with Roman Polanski; a satirical article, "Hypothetical Posthumou... View More...
[a very nice copy, with just the teensiest bit of wear at bottom edge of front cover; plenty would call it Fine, but I'm too Finicky]. (B&W photographs) A terrific issue of this important (and well-designed) critical film journal. Contents include: "Fellini on Fellini on Satyricon" (including an interview with the filmmaker); an interview with Jeanne Moreau; an article (by Paul Schrader) on Sam Peckinpah and THE WILD BUNCH, which also discusses Peckinpah's earlier films; "Four-in-One Cinema" (about the opening of a chain of multiplexes in England); an interview with Arthur Pe... View More...
[slight bumping to lower corners, subscription mailing label on rear cover]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: "The Projector and the Camera: Integrating Courses in Cinema Studies and Filmmaking" (Vlada Petric); "Seeking to Take the Longest Journey: A Conversation with Albert Maysles" (Calvin Pryluck); "The Moral Dimension in Documentary" (James M. Linton); "From Comic Strips to Animation: Some Perspective on Winsor McCay" (Tom W. Hoffer). Also: "A Bibliography of Latin American Cinema," by Daniel Appelman; and a long review of Lenny Lipton's two filmma... View More...
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