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"A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car."
— Kenneth Tynan
"Familiarity breeds contempt only among [movie] critics."
— Richard Corliss, in Time Magazine
Cinema Critics & Theorists, A to Z
'film criticism' topic at Wikipedia
list of film critics at Wikipedia
[U.S.A.] National Society of Film Critics [est. 1966] entry at Wikipedia
amateur movie critic 'Agoraphobic Movie Geek' website
FIPRESCI: The International Federation of Film Critics [est. 1925]
 | "For The Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism" [festival circuit 2007]
80-minute docufilm written & directed by Gerald Peary {critic at The Boston Phoenix}; narrated by Patricia Clarkson; featuring Richard Corliss {Time Magazine}, David D'Arcy, Roger Ebert {The Chicago Sun-Times}, Otis Ferguson, Molly Haskell, Pauline Kael [1919-2001], Stanley Kauffmann, Stuart Klawans {The Nation Magazine}, Leonard Maltin, Janet Maslin, Elvis Mitchell, John Powers, Rex Reed, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Andrew Sarris, Richard Schickel, Lisa Schwarzbaum {Entertainment Weekly}, A.O. Scott {The New York Times}, David Sterritt, Mike Szymanski, Kenneth Turan {The Los Angeles Times}, Scott Weinberg & Michael Wilmington DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $5.99 |
 | "American Movie Critics: An Anthology From The Silents Until Now" [2006] Edited by Phillip Lopate Library of America 9¼x6 pb [1/2008] for $14.96 Library of America 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2006] for $30.12 critics and writers included are James Agee, John Ashbery, James Baldwin, Vincent Canby, Manohla Dargis, Roger Ebert, Ralph Ellison, Manny Farber, Otis Ferguson, Brendan Gill, Molly Haskell, Pauline Kael, Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg, Andrew Sarris, Richard Schickel, Susan Sontag, Edmund Wilson (and others) |
author & critic James Agee [1909-55]
see listing as author, above
Hollis Alpert [1916-2007]
André Bazin
http://www.amazon.com/What-Cinema-Vol-Andre-Bazin/dp/0520242270/
director & critic Peter Bogdanovich
browse Peter Bogdanovich on DVD • browse books •
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
critic Patrick Brion of France
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Brion
Patrick Brion's weblog (in French)
 | "Le Film Noir: L'Áge d'Or du Film Criminel Américain" [2004] by Patrick Brion Subjects include Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Stanley Kubrick, Nicholas Ray & Orson Welles Editions de la Martinière French-language hardcover [9/2004] for €42,75 at Amazon France |
Vincent Canby
Charles Champlin [1926-2014] of Los Angeles
Anupama Chopra, the film critic for India Today
author of several books; winner of the prestigious National Award for The Year's Best Book on Cinema from the President of India
"Sholay: The Making of a Classic" [2000]
Michel Ciment of France
Jay Cocks
Richard Corliss
Judith Crist
radio & TV critic Richard Crouse of Canada
official website •
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
host of Reel To Real on the Independent Film Channel, 1998-2008
weekly host & regular guest on Newstalk 1010-AM in Toronto since April 2008
currently a Toronto-based film critic for CTV's Canada A.M. and the CTV News Channel
 | "Who Wrote The Book of Love?: The Stories Behind The Hits - From Chuck Berry To Chumbawamba" [1998] Doubleday Canada 8x5½ pb [8/98] out of print/used |
 | "The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen" [2003 bestseller]
E.C.W. Press 8¾x7 pb [9/2003] for $17.23 |
 | "Reel Winners: Movie Award Trivia" [2005]
Dundurn Press 9x6 pb [9/2005] for $24.99 |
 | "The Son of The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen" [2008]
E.C.W. Press 9x6½ pb [9/2008] for $13.46 |
Bosley Crowther [1905-81]
film critic at the New York Times, 1940-67
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosley_Crowther
"The Lion's Share: The Story of An Entertainment Empire" [1957]
by Bosley Crowther ISBN 0404200710 ISBN 978-0404200718
"The Great Films: Fifty Golden Years of Motion Pictures" [Putnam, 1971]
by Bosley Crowther ISBN 0399103619 ISBN 978-0399103612
"Bosley Crowther: Social Critic of Yhe Film, 1940-1967" [1974]
by Frank Eugene Beaver ISBN 040504870X ISBN 978-0405048708
Manohla Dargis
Gilles Deleuze [France; 1925-95]
Deleuze was an important French philosopher, while his later career dealt with cinema (as below)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze
http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/deleuze.htm
'Le Course de Gilles Deleuze' at WebDeleuze {French-language only}
"L'Image-Mouvement" (The Movement-Image) [1983]
"L'Image-Temps" (The Time-Image) [1985]
"L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze" [France 1996 TV miniseries]
eight 1-hour episodes; Gilles Deleuze interviewed by Claire Parnet; directed by Pierre-André Boutang
video/DVD not available; credits at IMDb
 | "The Brain Is the Screen: Deleuze and The Philosophy of Cinema" [2000] Edited by Gregory Flaxman Univ MN Press 8¾x6¼ pb [2/2000] for $21.15 Univ MN Press 9¼x6¼ library hardcover [2/2000] for $70.50 |
 | "Deleuze On Cinema" [2003] by Ronald Bogue "An extremely lucid and nearly seamless analysis of both of Deleuze's cinema books." Routledge 9x6 pb [3/2003] for $25.55 Routledge 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2003] for $100.00 |
 | "The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working With Deleuze In Film Theory" [2003] by Patricia Pisters Stanford Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [7/2003] for $24.25 Stanford Univ Press hardcover [7/2003] for $60.00 |
Deleuze and World Cinemas by David Martin-Jones (Apr 21, 2011)
http://www.amazon.com/Deleuze-World-Cinemas-David-Martin-Jones/dp/0826416934/
Deleuze and Cinema: The Film Concepts by Felicity Colman (Jul 5, 2011
http://www.amazon.com/Deleuze-Cinema-Concepts-Felicity-Colman/dp/1847880371/
David Denby
film critic for The New Yorker Magazine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Denby_(film_critic)
Daniel Eagan
film critic for Film Journal and for The Hollywood Reporter
 | "America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide To The Landmark Movies In The National Film Registry" [2009] by Daniel Eagan Continuum Publng Group 9¾x7 pb [10/2009] for $17.96 Continuum Publng Group 10x7¼ hardcover [9/2009] for $97.06 |
Roger Ebert [1942-2013]
syndicated film review column based at the Chicago Sun-Times, 1967-2013
won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for Film Criticism in 1975
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IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
received the 2010 Mel Novikoff Award [est. 1988] from San Francisco Intl. Film Festival [est. 1954]
Roger Ebert's Film Festival [April 2013 = #15] in Champaign, Ilinois
Roger Ebert's Journal homepage at the Chicago Sun-Times
"Life Itself" memoir [2011] by Roger Ebert
Chronicles the famous film critic’s struggle and recovery from alcoholism; his battle with thyroid cancer that left him
unable to eat, drink or speak; his marriage; his politics; and his spiritual beliefs.
"Life Itself: The Only Thing Roger Loved More Than Movies"
[Magnolia Pictures July 2014]
 | Announced 9/2012: A documentary film is being made from Roger Ebert's memoir, to be directed by Steve James; added 1/2013 {at Sundance}: C.N.N. Films acquired U.S. broadcast rights; the finished film will be released theatrically before it airs on C.N.N. in 2014
Co-produced by Martin Scorsese, Steven Zaillian, and director Steve James; based on Ebert's bestselling memoir; interviewees include Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Ava DuVernay, Errol Morris, wife Chaz Ebert, Ramin Bahrani, A.O. Scott, Marlene Iglitzen Siskel, with archive footage of Roger Ebert [1942-2013] & Gene Siskel [1946-99]
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch 5/2014 official trailer [2:22] at YouTube |
Lotte H. Eisner [1896-1983]
credits at IMDb •
entry at Wikipedia
employed 1945-75 as archivist at Cinémathèque Française [est. 1936] in Paris, France
 | "F.W. Murnau" [1964 & 1973] by Lotte H. Eisner Univ CA Press English translation pb [6/73] out of print/used Univ CA Press English translation hardcover [6/73] out of print/used Le Terrain Vague French-language pb [1964] out of print/imported |
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"The Haunted Screen: Expressionism In The German Cinema & The Influence of Max Reinhardt" [orig 1969, rev 2008] by Lotte H. Eisner Univ CA Press 2nd Edition 8x5½ pb [9/2008] for $20.65 Thames & Hudson Ltd hardcover [10/69] out of print/used |
Manny Farber [1917-2008]
Farber's film criticism & essays appeared in Artforum, City, Film Comment,
The Nation, The New Leader, and New Republic
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Wikipedia
received the 2003 Mel Novikoff Award [est. 1988] from San Francisco Intl. Film Festival [est. 1954]
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"Negative Space: Manny Farber On The Movies" [1971] Preface by Robert Walsh Perseus Publng Expanded Edition 8x5 pb [3/98] out of print/used Studio Vista hardcover [4/71] out of print/used |
 | "Farber On Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber" [2009] Edited by Robert Polito Library of America 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2009] for $26.40 |
Otis Ferguson
Hollis Frampton [1936-84]
official website •
credits at IMDb •
entry at Wikipedia
 | "On The Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton" [2009] Edited by Bruce Jenkins M.I.T. Press 9¼x7¼ hardcover [4/2009] for $26.37 |
Leslie Halliwell
Molly Haskell
She was married to fellow critic Andrew Sarris [1928-2012] from 1969
add more books • official homepage
 | "Frankly, My Dear: Gone With Yhe Wind Revisited" [2009] by Molly Haskell Yale Univ Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [2/2009] for $16.32 |
J. Hoberman
Suddenly let go from longtime Village Voice chief film critic position 1/2012:
hired 2/2012 at Blouin ARTINFO, the online art and culture publication.
Pauline Kael [1919-2001]
movie critic at McCall's Magazine in 1966 and at The New Republic, 1966-67
film critic in The New Yorker Magazine, 1968 to 1991
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IMDb listing [1970-2009] •
Wikipedia
received the 1991 Mel Novikoff Award [est. 1988] from San Francisco Intl. Film Festival [est. 1954]
essay about Pauline Kael by Nathan Heller in The New Yorker Magazine, October 2011
 | "Pauline Kael: A Life In The Dark" biography [2011] by Brian Kellow Viking 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2011] for $18.45 |
 | "Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty In Seventies New York" [2011] by James Wolcott Vanity Fair Magazine culture critic Wolcott has a lot to say about spending time with his 'guiding light' Pauline Kael, among other tales. Doubleday 8¼x5¾ hardcover [10/2011] for $15.64 |
http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Pauline-Kael-Literary/dp/0878058990/
http://www.amazon.com/Afterglow-Last-Conversation-Pauline-Kael/dp/B000C4SN5S/
 | "I Lost It At The Movies: The Essential Kael Collection, From '54 To '65" [1965] "A savagely-written book by America's most controversial movie critic"; movies reviewed include Vittorio De Sica's masterpiece "Shoeshine" [1947], Elia Kazan's "On The Waterfront" [1954], Ingmar Bergman's "Smiles of A Summer Night" [1955], "West Side Story" [1961], Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai" [1954], Kubrick's "Lolita" [1962], and François Truffaut's "Jules et Jim" [1962] Marion Boyars Publrs 8½x5½ pb [1994] for $13.10 Bantam mass pb [1966] out of print/used Bantam 8½x6 pb [1965] out of print/used Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover [1965] out of print/used |
"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" [1968] ISBN 0-31648-163-7 /0714506583/
"Going Steady" [1969] ISBN 0-55305-880-0 /0714529761/
"Deeper Into Movies" [1973] /0714509418/
"Reeling" [1976] /0316481793/
"When The Lights Go Down" [1980) ISBN 0-03042-511-5 /0030568420/
"5001 Nights At The Movies" [1982] /0805013679/
"Taking It All In" [1984] ISBN 0-03069-362-4
"State of The Art" [1987] ISBN 0-71452-869-2
"Hooked: Film Writings" [1989]
"The Magical Eye" docufilm [NFBC 1989] /tt0210826/
"Movie Love" [1991]
"For Keeps" [1994]
"Raising Kane, and Other Essays" [1996]
"For The Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism" docufilm [2009] /tt1241707/
"The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael" [2011]
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [DUE Oct 2011] for $26.40
Stanley Kauffmann [1916-2013]
movie critic at The New Republic, 1958-2013
author page at The New Republic •
IMDb listing [1965-2003] •
Wikipedia
Kauffmann's memoir "Albums of A Life" [Sheep Meadow Press 2007]
"About the Theater" [Sheep Meadow Press 2010]
 | "Ten Great Films" [2012] by Stanley Kauffmann
Two of the movies examined are Sergei M. Eisenstein's "The Battleship Potemkin" [1925] and Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot" [1959] Sheep Meadow Press 8¾x6¼ pb [11/2012] for $12.56 |
Stuart Klawans
has been the film critic for The Nation Magazine since 1988
Anthony Lane
http://www.amazon.com/Nobodys-Perfect-Writings-New-Yorker/dp/0375714340/
poet & critic Vachel Lindsay [1879-1931] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
 | "The Art of The Moving Picture" [orig 1915; rev 2000] by Vachel Lindsay; edited by Martin Scorsese Kindle Edition from Modern Library [12/2010] for $11.99 Modern Library 8x5 pb [3/2000] for $13.77 original editions: CreateSpace 10x8 pb [9/2011] for $12.99 IndyPublish 9x6 pb [2/2005] for $35.99 |
 | "The Progress and Poetry of The Movies: A Second Book of Film Criticism by Vachel Lindsay" [written 1925, publd 1995] Edited with commentary by Myron Lounsbury Scarecrow Press hardcover [8/95] for $124.30 {sic} |
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"Vachel Lindsay: The Poet As Film Theorist" [1964] by Glenn Joseph Wolfe Arno Press 9¾x6½ hardcover [6/73] out of print/scarce |
columnist Leonard Lyons [1906-76]
Broadway columnist with the New York Post, 1934-74
IMDb listing [1947-49] •
Wikipedia
 | "Stories My Father Told Me: Notes From The Lyons Den" [2011] by Jeffrey Lyons Abbeville Press 10x7 hardcover [6/2011] for $21.50 |
film critic on WPIX, 1970-91; hosted "The Lyons Den" radio show on WCBS-AM, 1975-93;
co-host of "Sneak Previews", 1982-96; film & theatre critic on WNBC, 1996-2009
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/Curveballs-Screwballs-Incredible-Baseball-Flukes/dp/081293315X/
 | "Jeffrey Lyons' 101 Great Movies For Kids" [1996]
Fireside 9x6¼ pb [4/96] for $18.95 Lyons's choices range from obvious to surprising, such as: "A Christmas Story"; "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court"; "The Adventures of Robin Hood" [1938] with Errol Flynn; "Around The World In 80 Days"; "Bad Day At Black Rock" with Spencer Tracy; "The Bridge On The River Kwai"; "Captain Blood" [1935] with Errol Flynn; "The Court Jester" with Danny Kaye; "Field of Dreams"; "Friendly Persuasion"; "Harvey"; "Hoosiers"; "How The West Was Won"; "Inherit The Wind"; Hemingway's "Islands In The Stream"; "The King and I"; "Little Women"; Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon" [1937]; John Ford's "Mister Roberts" [1955]; Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" [1939]; "Mutiny On The Bounty"; Frank Capra's "Pocketful of Miracles" [1961]; "The Red Balloon"; John Steinbeck's "The Red Pony"; "Stand and Deliver" with Edward James Olmos; "To Kill A Mocking-bird"; and "Treasure Island" |
critic & historian Leonard Maltin
http://blogs.indiewire.com/leonardmaltin/
 | "Movie Comedy Teams" [1970] by Leonard Maltin "An affectiuonate and penetrating history of the unforgettable comic combinations that made millions laugh. Fully illustrated, with a complete Filmography and Index" Plume mass pb [8/85] out of print/used |
 | "The Great Movie Shorts: Those Wonderful One- and Two-Reelers of The Thirties & Forties" [1972] by Leonard Maltin, with 'more than 200 nostalgic photos' Crown Publrs 11x8½ hardcover [1972] out of print/used |
 | "The Disney Films" [orig 1973] by Leonard Maltin Disney Books 11x8½ 4th edition pb [8/2000] out of print/used Disney Books 11x8½ 3rd edition pb [9/95] out of print/many used Crown hardcover [1973] out of print/used Random House hardcover [1973] out of print/used |
 | "The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang - A Nostalgic Look At The Careers & The 221 Films of America's Most-Beloved Mischief-Makers" [orig 1977] by Leonard Maltin & Richard W. Bann
Three Rivers Press 10¾x8½ pb [rev 11/92] for $16.46 Crown Books pb [4/84] out of print/used Crown Books hardcover [7/80] out of print/used |
 | "Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons" [1980] by Leonard Maltin Plume 9¼x7½ pb [12/87] for $19.80 McGraw-Hill hardcover [4/80] out of print/used |
 | "The Great Movie Comedians, From Charlie Chaplin To Woody Allen" [1982] by Leonard Maltin Random House pb [3/82] out of print/used Random House Value Publng hardcover [12/88] out of print/many used Harmony hardcover [6/82] out of print/used |
Gerald Mast [1940-88]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Mast = America's 'film-scholar laureate'
 | "A Short History of the Movies" [orig 1971, rev 2011] by Gerald Mast & Bruce Kawin Pearson ABRIDGED 11th Edition 9x7½ pb [3/2011] for $70.05 Pearson UNABR 11th Edition 9x7½ pb [1/2010] for $123.98 |
Michael Medved
is an idealogue, not a critic
Jean Mitry [1907-88] of France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Mitry
James Monaco [b. 1942]
http://www.amazon.com/How-To-Read-Film-multimedia/dp/0966974433/
Wesley Morris
film critic at The Boston Globe since 2002; won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Devin D. O'Leary
film critic at The Weekly Alibi in Albuquerque, New Mexico
British film journalist Brian Pendreigh
"Inside Out Film" weblog {last update Aug 2011}
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
film critic at the weekly Chicago Reader, 1987-2008
currently a professor of film studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia
Jonathan Rosenbaum's blog (with all articles back to 1957}
"Moving Places: A Life At The Movies" autobiography [1980]
"Film: The Front Line" [1983]
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"Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism" [1995] by Jonathan Rosenbaum Univ CA Press 8¾x6¼ pb [5/95] for $26.95 Univ CA Press hardcover [5/95] out of print/used |
"Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and The American Dream" [1998 TV documentary] /tt0141163/
"Movie Wars: How Hollywood and The Media Limit What Movies We Can See" [2002]
"Essential Cinema" [2004]
"Midnight Movies: From The Margin To The Mainstream" documentary [2005] /tt0457414/
"For The Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism" documentary [2009] /tt1241707/
"Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture In Transition" [10/2010] /0226726657/
Andrew Sarris [1928-2012]
He was married to fellow critic Molly Haskell from 1969 to 2012
received the 1993 Mel Novikoff Award [est. 1988] from San Francisco Intl. Film Festival [est. 1954]
"The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968" [1968 classic]
Magic Lantern's
film critic Richard Schickel Page
John Simon
David Sterritt
critic at the Christian Science Monitor, 1968-2005
David Thomson
regular contributor to The New York Times, Film Comment, Movieline, The New Republic, and Salon
author page at The New Republic •
IMDb listing [since 1987] •
Wikipedia
 | "Have You Seen ... ?: A Personal Introduction To 1,000 Films" [2008] by David Thomson Knopf 9½x6¾ hardcover [10/2008] for $26.37 |
 | "The Big Screen: The Story of The Movies" [2012] by David Thomson Kindle Edition from FS&G/Macmillan [10/2012] for $14.44 Farrar, Straus & Giroux 9x6½ hardcover [10/2012] for $21.63 |
 | "Moments That Made The Movies" [2013] by David Thomson book of film reviews, captured in a few pages each, with 250 glorious still photographs accompanying each brief analysis Thames & Hudson 10¼x8½ hardcover [10/2013] for $19.97 |
 | "Breaking Bad: The Official Book" [2015] Edited by David Thomson explores how the epic 'Breaking Bad' television series came to be, and also sets it in the context of both crime literature and long-form television Union Square & Co. 9x8 pb [4/2015] for $19.12 |
Kenneth Turan
film critic at the Los Angeles Times since 1991
Kenneth Turan entry at Wikipedia
lecturer on film at U.S.C.
"Sinema: American Pornographic Films and The People Who Make Them" [1974]
 | "Sundance To Sarajevo: Film Festivals and The World They Made" [2002] by Kenneth Turan Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [11/2003] for $12.44 Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2002] for $35.00 |
 | "Never Coming To A Theater Near You: A Celebration of A Certain Kind of Movie" [2004] by Kenneth Turan PublicAffairs bargain-priced 8x5½ pb [11/2005] for $3.34 [sic] PublicAffairs 9¼x6 hardcover [9/2004] for $25.00 |
"Now In Theaters Everywhere" [2006]
 | "Not To Be Missed: Fifty-four Favorites From A Lifetime of Film" [2014] by Kenneth Turan
Kindle Edition from PublicAffairs [6/2014] for $14.49 PublicAffairs 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/2014] for $19.88 includes Turan's praise of: "Fantomas" [France 1913-1914] by Louis Feuillade; "Sherlock Jr." silent feature [1924] by Buster Keaton; "Pass The Gravy" silent short [1928]; "I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang" [1932]; "Bombshell" [1933] starring Jean Harlow; "The Dybbuk" [Poland 1937]; "Make Way For Tomorrow" [1937] by Leo McCarey; "Love Affair" [1939] by Leo McCarey; "Pride and Prejudice" [1940]; "The Shop Around The Corner" [1940] by Ernst Lubitsch; "The Lady Eve" [1941] by Preston Sturges; "Strawberry Blonde" [1941] by Raoul Walsh; "To Be or Not To Be" [1942] by Ernst Lubitsch; "Strawberry Blonde" [1941] by Raoul Walsh; "Casablanca" [1942] by Michael Curtiz; "Random Harvest" [1942]; "Children of Paradise" [France 1945] by Marcel Carné; "Great |
| Expectations" [1946] by David Lean;
"The Bicycle Thieves" [Italy 1948] by Vittorio de Sica;
"The Third Man" [1949] starring Orson Welles;
Oscar-winner "All About Eve" [1950];
"The Asphalt Jungle" [1950] by John Huston;
"Sunset Blvd." [1950] by Billy Wilder;
"Casque d’Or" [France 1952];
"The Import-ance of Being Earnest" [1952];
"Singin’ In The Rain" [1952];
"The Earrings of Madame De ..." [1953] by Max Ophüls;
"Seven Samurai" [1954] by Akira Kurosawa;
"Kiss Me Deadly" [1955];
"Seven Men from Now, 1956] by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott;
"Sweet Smell of Success" [1957];
"Vertigo" [1958] by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart;
"Touch of Evil" [1958] by Orson Welles;
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" 1962] by John Ford, starring John Wayne & James Stewart;
"The Gospel According To St. Matthew" [Italy 1964] by Pier Paolo Pasolini;
"Chimes At Midnight" [1965] by Orson Welles; "Point Blank" [1967] starring Lee Marvin; "Le Samourai" [France 1967] by Jean-Pierre Melville; "Kes" [1969] by Ken Loach; "The Godfather" [1972] by Francis Ford Coppola; "Chinatown" [1974] by Roman Polanski, starring Jack Nicholson; "The Day After Trinity" documentary [1981]; "First Contact" documentary [1984]; "Distant Voices, Still Lives" [1988]; "Howard’s End" [1992] by James Ivory; "Leolo" [Canada 1992]; Oscar-winner "Unforgiven" [1992] by Clint Eastwood; "Spirited Away" [Japan 2001] by animator Hayao Miyazaki; "The Best of Youth" [Italy 2003]; "The Five Obstructions" documentary [Denmark 2003]; "Stranded" documentary [2008]; "A Prophet" [France 2009]; "Senna" documentary [2010]; "Of Gods and Men" [France 2010]; and "Footnote" [Israel 2011] — plus a chapter on the 55th film and another chapter listing 54 more |
Books On Cinema Aesthetics
| | "The Art of The Moving Picture" [orig 1915; rev 2000] by Vachel Lindsay [1879-1931]; edited by Martin Scorsese Kindle Edition from Modern Library [12/2010] for $11.99 Modern Library 8x5 pb [3/2000] for $13.77 original editions: CreateSpace 10x8 pb [9/2011] for $12.99 IndyPublish 9x6 pb [2/2005] for $35.99 |
 | "The Movies Are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928" [2000] Edited & with commentary by Arnie Bernstein, Introduction by Roger Ebert Lake Claremont Press 9x6 pb [10/2000] for $17.95 |
 | "Our Movie-Made Children" [1933 classic] by H.J. Forman described as 'a popular summary of twelve independent investigations made during 1929 to 1933 at the request of the Motion Picture Research Council, supported by the Payne Fund' Mellon Press 8½x5½ pb [6/2008] for $29.95 Bowen Press 8¼x5½ pb [10/2007] for $29.45 |
 | "Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality" [orig 1960] by Siegfried Kracauer [1899-1966], Introduction by Miriam Hansen "Kracauer's magnum opus of media aesthetics" Princeton Univ Press 8x5¼ pb [11/97] for $21.75 Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb [12/65] out of print/used |
 | "The Cinema As Art" [1966] by Ralph Stephenson & J.R. Debrix Penguin 7x5 pb [2/90] out of print/used Penguin 7x5 pb [4/66] out of print/used |
 | "The Origins of American Film Criticism, 1909-1939" [1972] by Myron Lounsbury Ayer Co. Publng hardcover [8/72] out of print/used |
 | "Film Art: An Introduction" [orig 1979] with tutorial CD-ROM by David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson McGraw-Hill 8th edition 10¾x8½ pb & CD-ROM [11/2006] for $79.87 McGraw-Hill 6th edition 10x8½ pb [6/2003] out of print/used David Bordwell's official website |
 | "Le Cinéma Américain: Analyses de Films" [1980] Edited by Raymond Bellour Flammarion French-language pb [1/92] import/used Flammarion French-language pb [1/92] for €29,49 from Amazon France |
 | "Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System" [1981] by Thomas Schatz McGraw-Hill 9x7¼ pb [2/81] for $63.70 Temple Univ Press hardcover [2/81] out of print/used |
 | "Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us To Stop Worrying and Love The Fifties" [1983] by Peter Biskind
Holt 8x5½ pb [9/2000] out of print/many used Pantheon 9x6 pb [10/83] out of print/many used |
 | "Philosophy of The Film: Epistemology, Ontology, Aesthetics" [1987] by Ian Jarvie Routledge 8½x5¾ library hardcover [8/87] for $130.00 |
 | "Classical Hollywood Comedy (A.F.I. Film Readers Series)" [1994] Edited by Kristine Brunovska Karnick & Henry Jenkins Routledge 8¾x6 pb [10/94] for $35.05 Routledge 10x8 hardcover [10/94] out of print/used |
 | "Poetics of Cinema" [1995] by Raúl Ruiz [1941-2011; Chile] Seven chapters derived from Ruiz's lectures; intended as a trilogy Dis Voir English translation 8¼x6 pb [3/95] for $20.88 "Poetics of Cinema 2" [2006] by Raúl Ruiz Foreword and nine chapters Dis Voir English translation 8¼x6¼ pb [2/2007] for $19.00 |
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"Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism" [1995] by Jonathan Rosenbaum Univ CA Press 8¾x6¼ pb [5/95] for $26.95 Univ CA Press hardcover [5/95] out of print/used |
 | "Close Up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism" [1998] Edited by James Donald, Anne Friedberg & Laura Marcus The magazine "Close Up" championed avant-garde filmmaking in Europe. Princeton Univ Press 9½x6½ pb [1/99] for $46.95 Continuum 9½x6¾ pb [2001] for $49.95 Continuum hardcover [5/98] out of print/used |
 | "Film Quarterly: Forty Years - A Selection" [1999] Edited by Brian Henderson & Ann Martin Univ California Press 10x7 pb [4/99] out of print/50+ used Univ California Press hardcover [4/99] out of print/used |
 | "You're Only Young Twice: Children's Literature and Film" [2000] by Tim Morris Univ Illinois Press 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2000] for $37.80 |
 | "American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches" [2000] by John Hill & Pamela Church Gibson Oxford Univ Press pb [2/2000] for $44.95 |
 | "Cinema Nation: The Best Writing On Film From The Nation, 1913-2000" [2000] Edited by Carl Bromley Thunder's Mouth Press 9x6 pb [10/2000] for $16.95 |
 | "American Audiences On Movies and Moviegoing" [2001] by Tom Stempel Univ Press of Kentucky 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2001] for $36.00 |
 | "It's Only a Movie! Films and Critics In American Culture" [2001] by Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. Kindle Edition from Univ Press Kentucky [2001 edition] for $19.25 Univ Press Kentucky 9x6 hardcover [5/2001] for $40.00 |
 | "The Audience Studies Reader" [2002] Edited by Will Brooker & Deborah Jermyn Editors introduce each essay by contributors including Theodor Adorno, Ien Ang, Camille Bacon-Smith, Jacqueline Bobo, Martin Barker, Michel de Certeau, Dawn Currie, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Fiske, George Gerbner, Marie Gillespie, Larry Gross, Sara Gwenllian-Jones, Miriam Hansen, Richard Hoggart, Henry Jenkins, Sut Jhally, Elihu Katz, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Justin Lewis, Tamar Liebes, Angela McRobbie, Robert Merton, David Morley, David Muggleton, Laura Mulvey, Janice Radway, Philip Schlesinger, Esther Sonnet, Jackie Stacey, Frederic Wertham, Charles Winick, and Gregory Woods Routledge 9½x6¾ pb [12/2002] for $39.01 Routledge 9¾x7 hardcover [12/2002] for $140.00 |
 | "Looking At Movies: An Introduction To Film" book & CD-ROM [orig 2003] by Richard Barsam { see 2009 Third Edition below } 2nd edition: Norton 10x7¾ pb & CD-ROM [11/2006] 2 disks & book for $21.32 2nd edition: Norton 10x7¾ pb & CD-ROM [9/2006] CD disk & book - out of print/used 2nd edition {textbook only}: Norton 10x7 pb [11/2006] out of print/many used 1st edition: Norton 9x7¼ pb & CD-ROM [8/2003] out of print/many used |
 | "America On Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality At The Movies" [2003] by Harry M. Benshoff & Sean Griffin Wiley-Blackwell 2nd Edition 9½x7½ pb [1/2009] for $35.95 Wiley-Blackwell 9½x6½ pb [10/2003] for $39.15 Wiley-Blackwell 9¾x6¾ hardcover [10/2003] for $112.69 |
 | "Film Analysis: A Norton Reader" [2005] Edited by Jeffrey Geiger & R.L. Rutsky W.W. Norton pb [6/2005] for $32.55 |
 | "The Eisenstein Collection" [26 essays; 2006] by Sergei M. Eisenstein, edited by Richard Taylor Seagull Books 9½x6¼ pb [3/2006] for $34.20 see also Magic Lantern's Sergei M. Eisenstein [1898-1948] Page |
 | "The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style In Modern Movies" [2006] by David Bordwell Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [4/2006] for $16.47 Univ CA Press 9x5¾ hardcover [4/2006] for $60.00 author's official website |
 | "The Power of Film" [2006] by Howard Suber {U.C.L.A. Professor Emeritus} Michael Wiese Prodns 8½x5½ pb [9/2006] for $18.26 |
 | "The Pervert's Guide To Cinema" 2½-hour documentary [Channel 4 TV/ICA Projects Oct 2006, USA Jan 2009] "An exhilarating ride thru some of the greatest movies ever made ... [an] engaging and passionate approach to thinking [and] the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves" Co-produced & directed by Sophie Fiennes; written by & starring Slavoj Žižek; original music by Brian Eno DVD available at producer's movie site • full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
 | "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Classic Movies" [2006] by Lee Pfeiffer
Alpha Books 9x7¼ pb [11/2006] out of print/used thumbnail critiques of over 350 movies from the Silent Era thru 1969, with indexes, appendices, quotes & other lists; movies covered range across "The Birth of A Nation" [1915], "Intolerance" [1916], "Greed" [1924], "The Maltese Falcon" [1941], "The African Queen" [1951], "The Seven Samurai" [1954], "The 400 Blows" [1959], "The Magnificent Seven" [1960], "2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968], "Easy Rider" [1969], and "The Wild Bunch" [1969] |
 | "The Art of Watching Films: A Guide to Film Analysis" with CD-ROM [2006] by Joseph M. Boggs & Dennis W. Petrie 7th edition: McGraw-Hill 9x7½ pb & tutorial CD-ROM [12/2006] for $79.87 7th edition: McGraw-Hill pb [12/2006] out of print/used |
 | "Poetics of Cinema" [2007] by David Bordwell Routledge 10x7 pb [10/2007] for $40.50 Routledge 10x7 hardcover [10/2007] for $97.41 author's official website |
 | "The Critical Eye: An Introduction To Looking At Movies" [orig 1998, rev 2008] by Margo Kasdan & Susan Tavernetti 4th Edition: Kendall Hunt Publng 9x6 pb [2/2008] for $58.42 3rd Edition: Kendall Hunt Publng 9x6 pb [6/2002] out of print/used |
 | "A Short Guide To Writing About Film" [orig 1994; rev 2009] by Timothy Corrigan Longman Press 7th Edition 8x5½ pb [2/2009] for $31.78 Longman Press 6th Edition 8¼x5½ pb [1/2006] for $26.64 |
 | "Looking At Movies: An Introduction To Film" book & CD-ROM [orig 2003, rev 2009] by Richard Barsam & Dave Monahan 3rd edition: Norton 10x8 pb & CD-ROM [9/2009] 2 disks & book for $69.44 3rd edition: Norton 7½x5¼ pb & CD-ROM [9/2009] 2 disks & book for $34.36 3rd edition {textbook only}: Norton 9½x8 pb [9/2009] out of print/used |
 | "The Complete History of American Film Criticism" [2010] by Jerry Roberts featured critics include James Agee, Cecelia Ager, Vincent Canby, Charles Champlin, Judith Crist, Manohla Dargis, David Denby, Roger Ebert, Manny Farber, Otis Ferguson, Pauline Kael, Stanley Kauffmann, Leonard Maltin, Janet Maslin, Terrence Rafferty, Andrew Sarris, Richard Schickel, A.O. Scott, Gilbert Seldes, John Simon, Gene Siskel, and Kenneth Turan Kindle Edition from Santa Monica Press [2/2010] for $12.09 Santa Monica Press 9x6 hardcover [2/2010] for $20.40 |
 | "War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda In Comics and Film" [2011] by Marc DiPaolo featured superheroes include Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Superman, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men Kindle Edition from McFarland & Co. [4/2011] for $16.19 McFarland & Co. 10x7 pb [3/2011] for $42.75 |
 | "Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Sartrean Perspective" [2011] Edited by Jean-Pierre Boulé & Enda McCaffrey Berghahn Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/2011] for $70.00 |
 | "Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Beauvoirian Perspective" [2012] by Jean-Pierre Boulé & Ursula Tidd Berghahn Books 9x6 hardcover [10/2012] for $70.00 |
 | "The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory: An International Reference" [2013] Edited by Edward Branigan & Warren Buckland Kindle Edition from Routledge [12/2013] for $45.24 (sic} Routledge 10x7¼ pb [1/2015] for $47.62 Routledge 10x8 hardcover [11/2013] for $173.46 {sic} |
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