Category: Cinema: Periodicals

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1982

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 MacKenz...
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Film Quarterly (Fall 1981) [cover: a scene from MON ONCLE D'AMERIQUE]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1981

Seller ID: 25380

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[nice clean copy, minor creasing at bottom right corner of front cover]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: an analysis of two films by Jacques Rivette, L'AMOUR FOU and CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING; an analysis of two recent films by Andrei Tarkovsky, THE MIRROR and STALKER; an analysis of Michelle Citron's DAUGHTER RITE, "a structurally ambitous feminist film [that] subverts conventional documentary forms"; and an article about Charles Chaplin, "Chaplin: The Antagonism of the Comic Hero." Also includes a "Controversy and Correspondence" section devoted to the burning que...
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Film Quarterly (Spring 1983) [cover: ATOMIC CAFE]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1983

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 1983) [cover: Sandra Bernhard and Robert DeNiro in THE KING OF COMEDY]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1983

Seller ID: 25529

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, minor wrinkling to front cover]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: an interview with Michelangelo Antonioni; an article by film theoretician Brian Henderson, "Tense, Mood and Voice in Film (Notes After Genette)"; an in-depth review of Martin Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY; a long review of Charles Musser's book "Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin Porter"; the first part of a special feature on the year's film books (covering autobiographies/biographies, criticism, director studies, genre studies, and history; continued in the next issue) ***NOTE ...
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Movie (issue no. 18, Winter 1970-71) [cover: Arthur Penn on the location of LITTLE BIG MAN]

By: (Cameron, Ian, ed.)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Movie Magazine Limited: 1970

Seller ID: 25426

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

[some wear along spine, minor creasing and one tiny tear at bottom edge of front cover, other signs of use, faint remnant of mostly-erased initials on front cover]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: an interview with Claude Chabrol; extenstive reviews/analyses of Alfred Hitchcock's TOPAZ, Elia Kazan's THE ARRANGEMENT, Eric Rohmer's MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD, Michelangelo Antonioni's ZABRISKIE POINT, and Jacques Demy's THE MODEL SHOP; a long interview with Arthur Penn, with much about ALICE'S RESTAURANT and LITTLE BIG MAN; a report by Robin Wood on the 1970 New York Film Festival. ***NOTE that we have m...
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Written By: The Journal of the Writers Guild of America, west (August 1988)

By: (Chambers, Lisa, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Writers Guild of America, west: 1988

Seller ID: 22707

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, a couple of short diagonal creases at upper right corner of front cover]. (B&W and color photographs, ads) The cover story is "Witty Women," profiling five sitcom writers: Yvette Lee Bowser, Lona Williams, Dana Savel, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and Eileen Conn. Featured articles: "Preston Sturges: A Screwball Centennial" by Devra Maza (along with the schedule of a Sturges retrospective then playing at the L.A. County Museum of Art) and "A Conversation with Stephen Schiff," screenwriter of the 1997 remake of LOLITA. Also in this issue: a column by Ernest...
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Entertainment World (October 24, 1969) [cover: Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara in HUSBANDS]

By: (Coffin, Howard A. II, ed.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hollywood CA, Entertainment World Publications, Inc.: 1969

Seller ID: 22554

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good+

[a little wear along spine, subscription mailing label on front cover, slight dog-earing at upper right corner]. (B&W and color photographs) "The Trade Weekly for all the Entertainment Industry." Feature articles: an interview with John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, and Peter Falk about the making of HUSBANDS; an article about franchising, discussing various celebrities who'd attached their names to commercial enterprises (Roy Rogers, Minnie Pearl, Jerry Lewis, and others); an article about Sid and Marty Krofft's then-new TV series H.R. PUFNSTUF; a discussion of the promotional campaign f...
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Film Comment (September-October 1978) [cover: Francois Truffaut and Jean Renoir]

By: (Corliss, Richard, ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Film Society of Lincoln Center: 1976

Seller ID: 25386

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

[clean copy, light rubbing to covers, a little wear at spine ends (possibly a touch of insect-nibbling)]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: a discussion of the films of Alan J. Pakula, together with an interview with Pakula about ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN; "Banking on Movies," articles by Stuart Byron and Patrick McGilligan on the topic of film financing; analysis of Jacques Rivette's DUELLE, by Jonathan Rosenbaum; an interview with Eduardo de Gregorio, about SERAIL and the influence of Rivette; an interview with Francois Truffaut, about his film SMALL CHANGE (L'ARGENT DE POCHE); analysi...
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Focus on Film (No. 2, March-April 1970) [cover: James Mason]

By: (Cowie, Peter, ed.)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, The Tantivy Press: 1970

Seller ID: 8360

ISBN: NO

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

[mild overall wear, some creasing in covers]. (B&W photographs) James Mason (interview and filmography); "Hollywood and the Indian" by Robert Larkins; discussion of THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg); reviews of DOUBLE SUICIDE (Masahiro Shinoda), HEART OF A MOTHER (Mark Donskoy) and GAILY, GAILY [released in the UK as CHICAGO, CHICAGO] (Norman Jewison). [ It was the practice of this excellent publication to provide, along with each film review, filmographies and brief career summaries of the director and often other principals in the film under discussion.]
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Focus on Film (No. 1, January-February 1970) [cover: American Comedy]

By: (Cowie, Peter, ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, The Tantivy Press: 1970

Seller ID: 17648

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

[moderate external wear, some light spotting/soiling to front cover]. (B&W photographs) First issue of this interesting film periodical, sort of a more intellectual and in-depth British version of "Films in Review." Includes: articles (with filmographies) on the careers of Bob Hope, Edward Everett Horton and Tuesday Weld; reviews (with accompanying brief filmographies) of TRUE GRIT (Henry Hathaway) and MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD (Eric Rohmer); and a "Discovery" review of THE SLIPPERY PEARLS, a 1932 two-reel comedy produced in Hollywood by the Masquers Club.
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 11, Winter 1974): The 50s [cover: James Dean in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, The Arizona Jim Co-Op: 1974

Seller ID: 10250

ISBN: NO

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good+

[minor soiling to rear cover, light stain at bottom of first few pages]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. Contents include articles on: "The Strange Case of the Hollywood Ten"; 3-D films; Fifties gangster films; Don Siegel and BABY FACE NELSON; THE BAND WAGON (Vincente Minnelli); "Nicholas Ray: The Years at RKO" (Part 2); Elia Kazan in the Fifties; three films by Robert Aldrich (KISS ME DEADLY, THE BIG KNIFE, ATTACK!); the film musicals of Betty Comden & Adolph Green; etc. ***NOTE that we have many more issues of this title (and other film magazines) in sto...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 13, Fall 1974): New Films and Filmmakers [cover: Jack Nicholson in CHINATOWN]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, The Arizona Jim Co-Op: 1974

Seller ID: 10252

ISBN: NO

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good+

[moderate soiling/rubbing to front cover]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. This issue includes articles on: THE EXORCIST (William Friedkin); A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick); CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski); director Robert Mulligan; the recent films of Blake Edwards; the films of Noel Black; "The Search for Self in the Films of Nicolas Roeg"; the BILLY JACK phenomenon; formalist cinema. ***NOTE that we have many more issues of this title (and other film magazines) in stock, and welcome your inquiries.
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 12, Spring 1974) [special issue: The Western]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, The Arizona Jim Co-Op: 1974

Seller ID: 23407

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good+

[light external wear, short diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover, small amount of ink underlining in a couple of articles]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. This issue, devoted entirely to the West, includes articles on: "Zane Grey and William S. Hart: The Romantic Western of the 1920s"; "Selected Sound Westerns and Their Novel Sources"; JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray); RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks); "Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Italian Western Beyond Leone"; PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (Sam Peckinpah); JEREMIAH JOHNSON (Sydney Pollack).
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 10, Fall 1973) [special issue: RKO Radio Pictures]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, Arizona Jim Co-Op: 1973

Seller ID: 25393

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Near Fine

[faint external soiling, minor crease near top of rear cover]. (B&W photographs) A special issue of this critical/historical film journal, devoted to RKO Radio Pictures. Includes: an overview of the studio's history and a chronology; "RKO's Fallen Women, 1930-1933"; an article about the production design of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals, as overseen by the studio's Art Department head, Van Nest Polglase; an interview with director John Cromwell; an analysis of DANCE, GIRL, DANCE (Dorothy Arzner, 1940); an interview with director Mark Robson, remembering his work at RKO with...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 15, Fall 1975): Warners Revisited [cover: Paul Muni in I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, (No Publisher Stated): 1975

Seller ID: 23408

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good

[nice clean copy, but rather heavily worn along the spine (binding fully intact)]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal; special issue devoted to Warner Bros. films. Includes articles on: WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD (William Wellman); art director Anton Grot; director William Dieterle; actor Pat O'Brien (interview); "Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies"; animation director Bob Clampett; director Raoul Walsh (interview, talking about the studio, plus an article about his westerns); Warners' "horror" films (including DOCTOR X and MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM); a list of WB fi...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 14, Winter 1975) [cover: MAHLER]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Madison, Arizona Jim Co-Op: 1975

Seller ID: 25392

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, with just the teensiest bit of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) The theme of this issue is "Forbidden, Forgotten, Neglected and Unlucky Films." Includes articles on: SURRENDER (Edward Sloman, 1927); THE RACKET (Lewis Milestone, 1928); THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE (1948, from a William Saroyan play); NATIVE LAND (Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand, 1942); THE BREAKING POINT (Michael Curtiz, 1950, from Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not"); two John Ford films, THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT (1953) and THE LAST HURRAH (1958); LEGEND OF THE LOST (Henry Hathaway, 1957); THE BELLE OF NEW...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 17, Winter 1977): TVLT Revisited (By Popular Demand) [cover: Marlene Dietrich in THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cottage Grove WI, (No Publisher Stated): 1977

Seller ID: 25394

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy with no significant wear]. (B&W photographs) Critical/historical film journal. This issue reprints ten articles from issues 1-8, including: "Some Warners Musicals and the Spirit of the New Deal"; FOR APACHE (John Ford); "The Strange Romance of 'Dirty Harry' Callahan and Ann Mary Deacon"; "Notes on Warner Brothers' Foreign Policy"; "Prisoners of Paranoia" (one of the seminal critical articles about Edgar G. Ulmer); early woman director Alice Guy Blaché; "Joe, Where Are You?" (an analysis of Josef von Sternberg's creation and manipulati...
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The Velvet Light Trap (No. 18, Spring 1978) [special issue: MGM; cover, Jean Harlow]