[nice clean copy, with just light handling wear, slight bump at top of spine; no marks of any kind, no subscription label]. (B&W/color photographs) The cover story, "The Magician and the Movies" by Erik Barnouw, discusses how old-time magicians "created moving images [and] prepared audiences for the magic of movies." Other feature articles include: "Producers and Publishers: The Book Brothers," about the various linkages (artistic and commercial) between books and movies; "Growing Up with Gloria Jean," a reminiscence by critic Andrew Sarris about "the days ... View More...
[nice clean copy, modest wear along spine, very tiny bump/bend to lower right corner of front cover]. (B&W/color photographs) Feature articles include: "The Legacy of 'Masterpiece Theatre'" (the cover story); a speculative article about the potential for home viewing of newly-released movies; an article about director Don Siegel; "The RKO Years: Orson Welles and Howard Hughes" by Ron Haver (the conclusion of a 2-part article); "The Moyers Style," an article about Bill Moyers's work for "CBS Reports"; David Thomson's ruminations on how movie stars' images are affected by their (often phony) nam... View More...
[nice copy, minor edgewear, light soiling at top of front cover, lightly bumped at top of spine; no marks, no subscription label]. (B&W/color photographs) Feature articles include: an article on the making of THE BINGO LONG TRAVELING ALL-STARS AND MOTOR KINGS; an account of the tortured production history of Orson Welles's uncompleted film THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (by Joseph McBride); "The Image Makers" (about the great Hollywood portrait photographers); an article on the depiction of train travel in movies of the 1930s and 1940s; an article about "Saturday Night Live." The ... View More...
[nice clean magazine, just a touch of wear along spine, very slight bump to top right corner of front cover, no subscription label]. (B&W/color photographs) The cover story, "The Last of the 'Nine Old Men'," celebrates the Disney animators who were then still at work on the studio's current animated feature, THE RESCUERS. Other feature articles include: a reminiscence, by the theater manager, of the furor caused when Rossellini's THE MIRACLE was exhibited in New York in 1950; "Heartbreak Hollywood," about what happens to stars when they fade from the limelight, but their legen... View More...
[nice clean copy, some wear along spine and minor wrinkling at bottom of rear cover, a touch of moisture-wrinkling at upper right corner; no subscription label]. (B&W/color photographs) The cover story is "Fitzgerald, Hollywood, and The Last Tycoon" (by Hollis Alpert), also keyed to the "Dialogue on Film" with THE LAST TYCOON director Elia Kazan. Other feature articles include: "The Theater of News," Part I (Philip Hilts; about TV news); "The Best of All Impossible Worlds" (about the art of special effects); "My Son the Movie Star" (about Michael Ritchie and the production of THE BAD NEWS BEAR... View More...
[nice copy with just minor handling wear, narrow faded strip along bottom edge of front cover, itsy-bitsy piece missing at bottom right corner of front cover, light soiling to rear cover]. (B&W/color photographs) The cover story, "John Ford and Monument Valley," by Todd McCarthy, discusses how Ford first discovered this iconic location, and the importance it came to assume in his work. Other feature articles include: Part II of Erik Barnouw's article "The Magician and the Movies"; a profile of TV director Jay Sandrich (including a one-page sidebar about Susan Harris, producer/... View More...
[nice clean copy with moderate edgewear, minor bumping at corners; no marks of any kind, no subscription label]. (B&W/color photographs) Feature stories: "Who Was Harry Langdon?" (Walter Kerr); "Coppola, Inc." (Joseph McBride); "The Canadian Dilemma" (Bruce Cook; re identity problem of Canadian cinema); "The Rise and Fall of the Rock Film" (Thomas Wiener; part one, continued in next issue); "Family Portraits: Filmmakers Explore Their Roots" (Elisabeth Weis); "Film as Experience" (about Nicholas Ray's experiences as a teacher of film); an article ... View More...
[nice clean copy, minor edgewear, lightly bumped at spine ends; no marks, no subscription label]. (B&W/color photographs) Most of the feature articles in this issue are devoted to TV, including: cover story on the production of "Roots"; an article on the new TV season; article about the PBS drama series "Visions," with emphasis on the opportunities provided for writers; an article on "car culture in film" (the second in a series by Julian Smith, this one featuring an on-location production report on RACE WITH THE DEVIL); an article about pre-World War II cinema programs... View More...
[clean copy with modest edgewear, a number of deep scratch lines in both front and rear covers; no subscription label]. (B&W/color photographs) First issue of the AFI's magazine, which made a noble try at bringing a mixture of journalism and pop film scholarship/history to the masses, but ultimately faded into mediocrity before biting the bullet in the 1990s, when it was superseded by flashier and more celebrity-centric publications like "Premiere." This issue had a cover feature story on the production of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, and also featured articles by Samuel Fuller ("News That's Fit ... View More...
[modeate external wear, clear-tape reinforcements across both ends of spine, some stamping and other markings on the first inside page, the inside front cover, and the title page (including a previous owner's name crossed out, a couple of stamps from a "volunteer book exchange," and an old inked price)]. Mass Market PB A paperback original, a tie-in with the cop show starring Howard Duff and Ben Alexander, which aired for two and a half seasons on ABC, from September 1966 to January 1969. The book opens with an evocative scene of a serial killer-to-be getting all worked up while in a movie th... View More...
[light wear along spine, even lighter wear along top and bottom edges of front cover, minor spotting to rear cover; no marks of any kind, no subscription label]. (B&W/color photographs) The cover story is an extensive report on Coppola's then-in-production ONE FROM THE HEART. Other features include: an article on Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, which had opened just the year before; a profile of Candice Bergen; an article about James M. Cain's screenwriting career; a "Dialogue on Film" interview with actress Mary Steenburgen; and a "Special Report" containing three article... View More...
[nice clean copy, light handling wear, slight dog-ear to bottom corner of front cover, diagonal crease at bottom corner of one page]. (B&W photographs) Contents include: an account of the festivities surrounding the presentation of the organization's first annual David Wark Griffith Awards; a career article on actress Doris Kenyon, with filmography; an interview with director John Carpenter; a remembrance of the career of Jean Seberg, who died in August 1979; "The Sound Track" commentary on Alfred Newman's score for ANASTASIA; a letter from Wes Gehring, in response to the many critici... View More...
[nice clean copy, light wear along spine, tiny scuff mark on front cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents include: career articles on Marlon Brando and Judy Holliday, with filmographies; an article about the use of black-and-white in Scorsese's RAGING BULL; an account of the 18th New York Film Festival; an article about director Claudia Weill and her film IT'S MY TURN; an article about Carlos Diegues, his film BYE BYE BRAZIL, and the Cinema Novo movement in Brazil; a discussion of the TV career of actor David Janssen, with a filmography of his TV movies; an informative letter about actor John Sutt... View More...
[nice clean copy, light wear along spine, slight rubbing to covers]. (B&W photographs) Contents include: career articles on Dirk Bogarde and Josephine Hutchinson, with filmographies; an article on "Current French Cinema"; brief interview/articles on directors Paul Mazursky, Philippe de Broca, Tage Danielsson, and Theodoros Bafaloukos, with commentary on their current films; a brief article (incorporating interview) with writer Brian Garfield; "The Sound Track" column's discussion of the career of composer Edward David Zeliff; a longish review of Shelley Winters's memoir; a lett... View More...
[nice clean copy, light wear along spine, top right-hand corner a bit bumped]. (B&W photographs) Contents include: a career article on Laura La Plante, with filmography; a late-career article on James Stewart (occasioned by his recent receipt of the AFI's Life Achievement Award), with filmography from 1964 to the present (picking up from where the magazine's original December 1964 list ended); article/interview with Gene Rowlands, coupled with a review of GLORIA; a brief tribute to Lillian Gish; an interview with Bruce Dern; an article on actor Richard Herd; "The Sound Track" column's... View More...
[light edgewear, top corner slightly bent]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) "An Original Gold Medal Novel," based on the TV series starring John Cassavetes as a jazz pianist who was also a private detective (or maybe it was the other way around), which ran for a single season (1959/60) on NBC. Although the book (like the TV series) featured "love in Greenwich Village, murder in midtown, beats in the Bowery, [and] sex on Sutton Place," the show was shot entirely in Los Angeles. View More...
[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... View More...
[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... View More...
[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... View More...
[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... View More...
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