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May-June 1975

The Day of the Locust: a review and John Schlesinger interviewed, Erich von Stroheim, Don Rugoff, Silk Stockings, Midsection: art direction/the avant-garde/video art, Dusan Makavejev, Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

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JOURNALS
Rotterdam by Richard Roud
East Coast by Jonathan Rosenbaum

ERICH VON STROHEIM
By Richard Koszarski and William K. Everson
The making and remaking of Walking Down Broadway

DON RUGOFF
By Stuart Byron
Ballyhoo with a Harvard education

ART AND IDEOLOGY
By Robin Wood
Notes on Silk Stockings

MIDSECTION
The Art of Art Direction, by Elliott Stein
Independents: Today’s Avant-Garde, by Amos Vogel
The Industry: Prints and Projectionists, by David Rosenbaum
Television: Video Artists, by John G. Hanhardt

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
John Schlesinger interviewed by Gene Phillips
A Plague of Locusts: a review by Brendan Gill
Nathanael West in Hollywood, by Mitchell S. Cohen

DUSAN MAKAVEJEV
Interviewed by Edgardo Cozarinsky and Carlos Clarens

THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
By Raymond Durgnat

BACK PAGE
Austin Lamont on the American film community