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January-February 1977

Barbet Schroeder interview, Carrie and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, tax shelters, Robert Altman, Robert Benton, Bangkok journal, In the Realm of the Senses and censorship

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JOURNAL
Bangkok by Gerald Weales

ROBERT ALTMAN & CO.
By Robert Levine

Robert Benton and THE LATE SHOW

Alan Rudolph and WELCOME TO L.A.

VIOLENCE AND FILM CRITICISM
On CARRIE and THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE by Roger Greenspun

DINO DE LAURENTIIS
Interviewed by Stuart Byron

THE END OF TAX SHELTERS
By Mitch Tuchman

SAMUEL FULLER
Interviewed by Richard Thompson

MIDSECTION
In the Realm of the Censors, by James Bouras
Birds of American Film, by Michael Pressler
Independents: Amos Vogel on a Catalogue of Omission
The Industry: Stuart Byron on ROCKY and His Friends
Television: Richard Koszarski on Disco-Vision

THE LAST TYCOON
Elia Kazan interviewed by Charles Silver and Mary Corliss

West Egg in Bel Air
A review by Brendan Gill

IDEOLOGY, GENRE, AUTEUR
On IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE and SHADOW OF A DOUBT
By Robin Wood

BARBET SCHROEDER
Interviewed by Elliott Stein

BOOKS
Thorold Dickenson on The British Documentary

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