Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing From a Century of Film

Dustjacket\r......Page 1
Title page\r......Page 7
Dedication\r......Page 9
Contents\r......Page 11
Introduction by Roger Ebert\r......Page 17
GOING TO THE MOVIES\r......Page 19
James Agee / from A Death in the Family\r......Page 21
Delmore Schwartz / \"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities\"\r......Page 23
R. K. Narayan / from The Bachelor of Arts\r......Page 30
Terry McMillan / \"The Wizard of Oz\"\r......Page 33
Ryszard Kapuscinski / from Another Day of Life\r......Page 42
Walker Percy / from The Moviegoer\r......Page 43
Jonathan Rosenbaum / from Moving Places\r......Page 46
Larry McMurtry / from The Last Picture Show\r......Page 53
Geoffrey O\'Brien / from The Phantom Empire\r......Page 64
MOVIE STARS\r......Page 73
H. L. Mencken / Rudolph Valentino\r......Page 75
Stark Young / Greta Garbo\r......Page 78
Marcelle Clements / \"They Can\'t Take That Away from Me\"\r......Page 82
Robert Lewis Taylor / from W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes\r......Page 86
Bob Hope and Bob Thomas / from The Road to Hollywood\r......Page 89
Lauren Bacall / from By Myself\r......Page 92
Peter Bogdanovich / \"Bogie in Excelsis\"\r......Page 96
David Thomson / from Suspects\r......Page 108
Nicholas Ray / James Dean\r......Page 114
Francois Truffaut / from The Films of My Life\r......Page 120
Red Reed / \"Ava: Life in the Afternoon\"\r......Page 129
John O\'Hara / from Selected Letters\r......Page 137
Joan Didion / \"John Wayne: A Love Song\"\r......Page 140
Tom Wolfe / \"Loverboy of the Bourgeoisie\"\r......Page 148
Donald Ritchie / \"Setsuko Hara\"\r......Page 153
John Updike / \"Suzie Creamcheese Speaks\"\r......Page 156
Truman Capote / \"A Beautiful Child\"\r......Page 164
Eleanor Coppola / from Notes\r......Page 177
Roger Ebert / \"Lee Marvin\"\r......Page 182
Klaus Kinski / from Kinski Uncut\r......Page 190
Mike Royko / John Belushi\r......Page 199
THE BUSINESS\r......Page 205
Alva Johnston / \"The Wahoo Boy\"\r......Page 207
Carey McWilliams / \"The Island of Hollywood\"\r......Page 220
Sam Arkoff / from Flying through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants\r......Page 236
William Castle / from Step Right Up\r......Page 241
Lillian Ross / from Picture\r......Page 245
Elmore Leonard / from Get Shorty\r......Page 253
Michael Tolkin / from The Player\r......Page 261
Everett Weinberger / from Wannabe\r......Page 264
SEX AND SCANDAL\r......Page 273
John Kobal / \"Mae West\"\r......Page 275
Kenneth Anger / from Hollywood Babylon\r......Page 290
Parker Tyler / \"The Awful Fate of the Sex Goddess\"\r......Page 294
Brendan Gill / \"Blue Notes\"\r......Page 301
Pauline Kael / \"Last Tango in Paris\"......Page 310
Norman Mailer / \"Tango, Last Tango\"\r......Page 318
Mario Puzo / from The Godfather\r......Page 327
EARLY DAYS\r......Page 341
Philadelphia Inquirer / \"The Great Train Robbery\"\r......Page 343
Maxim Gorky / Lumiere\r......Page 345
Leo Tolstoy / A Conversation on Film with Leo Tolstoy\r......Page 349
Joseph Medill Patterson / \"The Nickelodeons\"\r......Page 351
Vachel Lindsay / \"The Photoplay of Action\"\r......Page 359
Charlie Chaplin / from My Autobiography\r......Page 363
Djuna Barnes / John Bunny\r......Page 366
Louise Brooks / \"Pabst and Lulu\"\r......Page 369
Kevin Brownlow / Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson\r......Page 376
John Gillett and James Blue / \"Keaton at Venice\"\r......Page 382
S. J. Perelman / \"I\'m Sorry I Made Me Cry\"\r......Page 392
GENRES\r......Page 399
E. M. Forster / \"Minnie and Mickey\"\r......Page 401
Andre Bazin / \"The Western: or the American Film par Excellence\"\r......Page 404
Robert Warshow / \"The Gangster as Tragic Hero\"\r......Page 411
Manny Farber / \"Underground Films\"\r......Page 416
Susan Songtag / \"The Imagination of Disaster\"\r......Page 426
Libby Gelman-Waxner / \"Libby \'Noir\' \"\r......Page 439
DIRECTORS\r......Page 443
Luis Bunuel / from My Last Sigh\r......Page 445
Ingmar Bergman / from The Magic Lantern\r......Page 448
Alfred Hitchcock / \"My Own Methods\"\r......Page 450
Michael Powell / from A Life in Movies\r......Page 456
John Houseman / from Run-Through\r......Page 460
Preston Sturges / from Preston Sturges on Preston Sturges\r......Page 467
Woody Allen / \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\"\r......Page 474
John Huston / from An Open Book\r......Page 477
Jean Renoir / from My Life and My Films\r......Page 482
Akira Kurosawa / from Something Like an Autobiography\r......Page 485
Jeremy Bernstein / Stanley Kubrick\r......Page 493
Satyajit Ray / \"A Long Time on the Little Road\"\r......Page 497
Federico Fellini / from Fellini on Fellini\r......Page 502
Anthony Quinn / from One Man Tango\r......Page 506
Kenneth Tynan / Mel Brooks\r......Page 515
Andy Warhol and Paul Hackett / from POPism\r......Page 522
Andrei Tarkovsky / from Sculpting in Time\r......Page 531
Martin Scorsese / from Scorsese on Scorsese\r......Page 534
Spike Lee / from Do the Right Thing\r......Page 540
Simon Gleave and Jason Forest / \"Frequently Asked Questions about Quentin Tarantino\"\r......Page 551
WRITERS\r......Page 557
Ben Hecht / from A Child of the Century\r......Page 559
Gore Vidal / \"Who Makes the Movies\"\r......Page 572
Christopher Isherwood / from Prater Violet\r......Page 584
Raymond Chandler / from Selected Letters\r......Page 598
Charles Bukowski / from Hollywood\r......Page 601
CRITICS\r......Page 613
Graham Greene / \"Memories of a Film Critic\"\r......Page 615
Dwight Macdonald / from On Movies\r......Page 623
Andrew Sarris / from Confessions of a Cultist\r......Page 627
Stanley Kauffmann / \"Why I\'m Not Bored\"\r......Page 631
Quentin Crisp / from How to Go to the Movies\r......Page 636
TECHNIQUE\r......Page 643
Nestor Almendros / \"Matters of Photogenics\"\r......Page 645
Robert Benchley / \"Movie Boners\"\r......Page 653
Joe Bonomo / from The Strongman\r......Page 655
Janet Leigh / from Behind the Scenes of \"Psycho\"\r......Page 658
Mark O\'Donnell / \"The Laws of Cartoon Motion\"\r......Page 664
Akira Kurosawa / from Something Like an Autobiography\r......Page 665
David Mamet / from On Directing Film\r......Page 672
HOLLYWOOD\r......Page 679
F. Scott Fitzgerald / \"Crazy Sunday\"\r......Page 681
Robert Bloch / \"The Movie People\"\r......Page 696
Blaise Cendrars / \"If You Want to Make Movies ...\"\r......Page 705
Gore Vidal / from Hollywood\r......Page 714
Budd Schulberg / from What Makes Sammy Run?\r......Page 726
Howard Koch / from As Time Goes By\r......Page 732
Nathanael West / from The Day of the Locust\r......Page 736
Oscar Levant / from Memoirs of an Amnesiac\r......Page 740
Groucho Marx / from The Groucho Letters\r......Page 754
Julia Phillips / from You\'ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again\r......Page 758
Robert Stone / from Children of Light\r......Page 772
John Waters / \"Tour of L. A.\"\r......Page 774
Appendix: Sight & Sound / \"The Greatest Films of All Time\"\r......Page 783
Acknowledgments\r......Page 787