Movies that mattered : more reviews from a transformative decade /

Movies that mattered : more reviews from a transformative decade / Dave Kehr ; foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Dave Kehr's writing about film has garnered high praise from both readers and fellow critics. Among his admirers are some of his most influential contemporaries. Roger Ebert called Kehr "one of the most gifted film critics in America." James Naremore thought he was "one of the be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kehr, Dave (Author)
Other Authors: Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 1943- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Reviews.
Motion pictures > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > Press coverage > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures.
Reviews.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: From Chicago Magazine.The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
  • Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis)
  • Tess (Roman Polanski)
  • Westerns
  • Disney Films
  • Budd Boetticher
  • The Mystery of Oberwald (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  • The French "Tradition of Quality"
  • The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, by Donald Spoto
  • Sequels
  • Jacques Rivette
  • Boat People (Ann Hui)
  • L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
  • A Sunday in the Country (Bertrand Tavernier)
  • Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May)
  • The Coca-Cola Kid (Dušan Makavejev)
  • Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
  • Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
  • Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
  • Home Video
  • Part 2: From the Top Ten (Reader). Supervixens (Russ Meyer)
  • Robin and Marian (Richard Lester)
  • Islands in the Stream (Franklin J. Schaffner)
  • Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub)
  • Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
  • Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  • Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
  • Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
  • The Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Xie Jin)
  • Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)
  • Part 3: Favorites (Reader). Twilight's Last Gleaming (Robert Aldrich)
  • Movie Movie (Stanley Donen)
  • Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich)
  • Nosferatu (Werner Herzog)
  • Knife in the Head (Reinhard Hauff)
  • Macbeth (Orson Welles)
  • The Woman Next Door (François Truffaut)
  • Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  • Valley Girl (Martha Coolidge)
  • Gremlins (Joe Dante)
  • Part 4: Autopsies/Minority Reports.The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan) (Reader)
  • A Wedding (Robert Altman) (Reader)
  • Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola) (Chicago)
  • Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton) (Chicago)
  • The Shining (Stanley Kubrick) (Reader)
  • Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma) (Reader)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg) (Chicago)
  • A Passage to India (David Lean) (Chicago)
  • Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen) (Chicago)
  • Salvador (Oliver Stone) (Reader)

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