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May-June 1976

Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver by Patricia Patterson and Manny Farber, F.W. Murnau, Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot, George Cukor’s Gaslight, Luchino Visconti remembered, Howard Hughes remembered, James M. Cain interviewed, Dick Cavett

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JOURNALS
Los Angeles, by Stephen Farber

F.W. MURNAU
By Robin Wood
Introduction
On Nosferatu
On Sunrise

FAMILY PLOT
By Roger Greenspun

TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT GASLIGHT
By Andrew Sarris

TAXI DRIVER
By Patricia Patterson and Manny Farber

MIDSECTION
Independents: Amos Vogel polls seven film programmers
In Memoriam: Luchino Visconti, by James McCourt
In Memoriam: Howard Hughes, by Andrew Sarris
The Industry: Peter Birge and Janet Maslin on SNUFF in Boston
Television: Brooks Riley is Dick Cavetty Prone

THE ROAD RUNNER
Meep Meep! by Richard Thompson
Diary of a Mad Cel-Washer, by Chuck Jones

FACE TO FACE
The Man in the Iconic Mask, by Charles Michener
That Lady in Bergman, by Samson Raphaelson

JAMES M. CAIN
Interviewed by Peter Brunette and Gerald Peary

BOOKS
Jonathan Rosenbaum on four Renoir books

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