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“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
— Peter De Vries [1910-93]
Movie & TV Writers
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author & critic James Agee [1909-55]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Agee
screenwriters Edna & Edward Anhalt
screenwriter Ronald Bass
Robert Benton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benton
writer-producer Paul Bern [1889-1932]
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
second husband of actress Jean Harlow [1911-37]: married July 1932, suicide? September 1932
writer A.I. Bezzerides [1908-2007]
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0080135/
pal of writer John Fante [1909-83]
"The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides" [2005] /tt0445081/
screenwriter Shane Black
screenwriter Charles Brackett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brackett
writer W.R. Burnett [1899-1982] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
writer Paddy Chayefsky [1923-81]
browse books • Broadway credits • browse DVDs • movie credits •
Wikipedia
Collected Screenplays • Collected Teleplays • Collected Stageplays
"Network" [M.G.M. Nov 1976]
  | An aging network news anchor is fired, and his on-air tirade – "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" – causes a sensation among his viewers, so he is rehired and given his own show. Directed by Sidney Lumet; written by Paddy Chayefsky; starring Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Beatrice Straight & Ned Beatty; won Oscars for Best Script, Best Actor [Finch], Best Actress [FD], Best Supporting Actress [BS], nominated for Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Actor [WH], Best Supporting Actor [NB], Best Cinematography, Best Editing; won BAFTA for Best Actor [Finch], nominated for 8 more; won W.G.A. Award for Best Original Script
Warner widescreen color DVD [2/2006] 2 disks for $23.99 M.G.M. color VHS [5/96] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb novelization by Sam Hedrin Penguin movie tie-in mass pb [11/76] out of print/used |
screenwriter Diablo Cody
composer & playwright Noel Coward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Coward
screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.A.L._Diamond
often collaborated as writer and-or producer with Billy Wilder [1906-2002]
screenwriter Julius J. Epstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_J._Epstein
writer John Fante [1909-83] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
writer Wm. Faulkner [1897-1962] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
William Faulkner Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website
Andrew J. Fenady [b. 1928]
books •
credits on IMDb •
Wikipedia {empty}
screenwriter Carl Foreman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Foreman
screenwriter Harriet Frank, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Frank_Jr.
screenwriter Melvin Frank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Frank
screenwriter Daniel Fuchs [1909-93]
credits [1939-95] on IMDb •
Wikipedia
 | "The Golden West: Hollywood Stories, 1937-89" [2005] by Daniel Fuchs; Introduction by John Updike includes short fiction & non-fiction, and the novella "West of The Rockies" (1971) Black Sparrow/Godine 8½x6 pb [10/2006] for $16.95 Black Sparrow/Godine 9x6 hardcover [5/2005] for $24.83 |
screenwriter Larry Gelbart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gelbart
screenwriter Bo Goldman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Goldman
screenwriter William Goldman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goldman
writing team Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich
Albert Hackett [1900-95]
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movie credits •
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Frances Goodrich {Ames Hackett} [1890-1984]
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movie credits •
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team wrote screenplays for three of the 'Thin Man' Movies
team nominated for four Best Screenplay Oscars, won four W.G.A. Awards
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"The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Writers of Stage and Screen Classics" [2001] by David L Goodrich Southern Illinois Univ Press 8¾x5¾ pb [10/2004] out of print/used Southern Illinois Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2001] for $30.00 |
| | writer Ben Hecht [1894-1964] browse books • IMDb listing • Broadway credits • Wikipedia |
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"Ben Hecht: The Man Behind The Legend" [1990] by William MacAdams Barricade Books 9x6½ pb [2/95] out of print/used Scribner hardcover [3/90] out of print/used "A Child of The Century" [1985] memoirs of Ben Hecht Plume 7x5 pb [5/85] out of print/used Dutton hardcover [5/85] out of print/used |
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[blacklistee] Lillian Hellman [1905-84]Page
screenwriter Buck Henry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Henry
screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala
screenwriter Nunnally Johnson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunnally_Johnson
writer-director Garson Kanin [1912-99]
browse books • IMDb listing [1938-95] • Wikipedia
married to actress Ruth Gordon [1896-1985] from 1942
"The True Glory" [1945] co-directed by Carol Reed;
won an Academy Award for Best Documentary
 | "Moviola" [1979 bestselling novel] by Garson Kanin
A novelization of Kanin's life on Broadway & in Hollywood; aged movie mogul Ben Farber tells tales from his seventy years in show business, with an all-star cast. Pocket TV tie-in mass pb [4/80] out of print/many, many used S&S 9½x6¼ hardcover [11/79] out of print/many, many used book cited as the source for three NBC-TV movies: "This Year's Blonde" [May 1980] about Marilyn Monroe & Johnny Hyde DVD/Blu-ray not available; full credits at IMDb "The Scarlett O'Hara War" [May 1980] about making "Gone With The Wind" [1939] DVD/Blu-ray not available; full credits at IMDb "The Silent Lovers" [May 1980] about Greta Gartbo & John Gilbert DVD/Blu-ray not available; full credits at IMDb |
"A Family Affair: The Kanins In Hollywood and On Broadway" [2009]
by (nephew) Josh Kanin & Wayne Lindholm
screenwriter Charlie Kaufman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman
screenwriter Norman Krasna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Krasna
[blacklistee] screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr. [1915-2000]
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 | "I'd Hate Myself In The Morning: A Memoir" [2000] by Ring Lardner, Jr.; Introduction by Victor Navasky Thunder's Mouth Press 9¼x6 pb [10/2001] for $10.17 Nation Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2000] for $15.61 |
screenwriter Ernest Lehman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Lehman
screenwriter & author Anita Loos [1888-1981]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos
screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas [b. 1900]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756226/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederica_Sagor_Maas
"The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer In Early Hollywood" [] by Frederica Sagor Maas
http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=1245
screenwriter Charles MacArthur
screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Mankiewicz
screenwriter Abby Mann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Mann
screenwriter Frances Marion [1886-1973] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
screenwriter Paul Mazursky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mazursky
author Arthur Miller [1915-2005] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
screenwriter Dudley Nichols
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Nichols
[blacklistee] writer-director Clifford Odets [1906-63]
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Clifford Odets papers at Indiana University
 | "Clifford Odets: American Playwright - The Years From 1906-1940" [2002] by Margaret Brenman-Gibson {the author died before completing the second volume} Applause Books 9x6½ pb [1/2002] for $15.56 |
screenwriter Norman Panama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Panama
author Dorothy Parker [1893-1967]
screenwriter Eleanor Perry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Perry
screenwriter Frank Pierson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pierson
screenwriter Robert Riskin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Riskin
[blacklistee] screenwriter Waldo Salt [1914-87]
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Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival
(daughter) actress-screenwriter Jennifer Salt
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writer Budd Schulberg [1914-2009]
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia |
"What Makes Sammy Run?" [1941 novel]
"The Harder They Fall" [1947 novel]
cooperating witness for the H.U.A.C. blacklist hearings
Oscar-winning screenplay "On The Waterfront" [1954], also won W.G.A. Award
"A Face In The Crowd" [1957 screenplay]
produced "Wind Across The Everglades" [1958] directed by Nicholas Ray
 | "Moving Pictures: Memories of A Hollywood Prince" [orig 1981] by Budd Schulberg Ivan R. Dee, Publrs 8¾x6½ pb [9/2003] for $17.05 Stein & Day 9x6¼ hardcover [9/82] out of print/used |
Produced, co-written & directed by {son} Benn Schulberg; full credits at IMDb
screenwriter Rod Serling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Serling
http://www.ithaca.edu/rhp/serling
Before Serling became a TV icon, he was a paratrooper and member of a demolition squad in the Army in WWII.
 | "Patterns" [United Artists 1956] Serling's forceful study of ruthless greed & abuse of power in corporate America Directed by Fielder Cook; written by Rod Serling; starring Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Beatrice Straight & Andrew Duggan VCI b&w VHS [7/98] for $14.99 full credits from IMDb |
"The Twilight Zone" TV series
Rod Serling biopic feature film
Announced 7/2011: written by “Wall Street” scribe Stanley Weiser
screenwriter Melville Shavelson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Shavelson
screenwriter Stirling Silliphant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Silliphant
screenwriter Aaron Sorkin
co-wrote "The West Wing" TV series [1999-2006]
wrote "A Few Good Men" stageplay & screenplay [1992]
co-wrote "The Social Network" [2010]
co-wrote "Moneyball" [2011]
journalist & screenwriter Adela Rogers St. Johns [1894-1988]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adela_Rogers_St._Johns
appeared in Warren Beatty's "Reds" [1981]
writer-director Joan Tewkesbury lives in Tesuque, NM {since 2003}
credits [since 1955] on IMDb •
Wikipedia
screenwriter Caroline Thompson
credits [since 1990] on IMDb •
official website •
Wikipedia
"First Born" [1983 novel]
"Edward Scissorhands" screenplay [1990] co-written & directed by Tim Burton
"The Addams Family" screenplay [1991]
"Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey" adaptation [1993]
"The Secret Garden" adaptation [1993] directed by Agnieszka Holland
"The Nightmare Before Christmas" co-written [1993]
"Black Beauty" adapted & directed [1994]
"Buddy" [1997]
"Snow White: The Fairest of Them All" co-written & directed [teleplay 2001]
"Corpse Bride" co-written [2005] directed by Tim Burton
"City of Ember" adaptation [2008]
adaptation of Melissa Marr’s novel "Wicked Lovely" [DUE 2012]
adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel "The Master and Margarita"
screenwriter Robert Towne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Towne
[blacklistee] screenwriter Dalton Trumbo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo
screenwriter Steven Zaillian
adapted "Schindler's List" [1993] from Thomas Keneally's book
co-wrote "Mission: Impossible" [1996]
co-wrote Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" [2002]
co-wrote "Moneyball" [2011]
Cinema Historians
The entries for film historians rapidly grew until almost a third of this page, so the info was cut
to a separate page in March 2011.
Magic Lantern's Cinema Historians Page
"A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car." "Familiarity breeds contempt only among [movie] critics."
Cinema Critics & Theorists
— Kenneth Tynan
— Richard Corliss, in Time Magazine
'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
 | "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]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Agee
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 •
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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 of Los Angeles
Michel Ciment of France
Jay Cocks
Richard Corliss
Judith Crist
radio & TV critic Richard Crouse of Canada
official website •
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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]
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
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"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 |
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"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 |
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
syndicated film review column based at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967
won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for Film Criticism in 1975
browse books • official website •
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Wikipedia
received the 2010 Mel Novikoff Award [est. 1988] from San Francisco Intl. Film Festival [est. 1954]
Roger Ebert's Film Festival [April 2009 = #11] in Champaign, IL
Roger Ebert's Journal homepage at the Chicago Sun-Times
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
browse books • IMDb listing •
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
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 |
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
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]
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'Congo' etext •
Wikipedia
 | "The Art of The Moving Picture" [orig 1915; rev 2000] by Vachel Lindsay; edited by Martin Scorsese Modern Library 8x5 pb [3/2000] for $15.00 |
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 |
Michael Medved
is an idealogue, not a critic
James Monaco
Devin D. O'Leary
film critic at The Weekly Alibi in Albuquerque, NM
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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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
received the 1993 Mel Novikoff Award [est. 1988] from San Francisco Intl. Film Festival [est. 1954]
Magic Lantern's
film critic Richard Schickel Page
John Simon
David Sterritt
critic at the Christian Science Monitor, 1968-2005
David Thomson
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"Have You Seen ... ?: A Personal Introduction To 1,000 Films" [2008] by David Thomson Knopf 9½x6¾ hardcover [10/2008] for $26.37 |
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 |
Books On Cinema Aesthetics
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
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"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 |
 | "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 |
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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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
"It's Only a Movie! Films and Critics in American Culture" [] by Raymond J. Haberski, Jr.
http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=1842
"The Complete History of American Film Criticism" [2/2010] by Jerry Roberts
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-History-American-Film-Criticism/dp/1595800492/
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