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November-December 1973

Special issue on documentary film: An American Family, cinema verite, interview with Pat Loud, Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond and John Terry, Robert Flaherty, the documentaries of Georges Franju, Alain Resnais, Dušan Makavejev

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JOURNALS

London
By Jan Dawson

Paris
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Los Angeles
By Beverly Walker

CINEMA VERITE AND SOCIAL CONCERNS
By Stephen Mamber

AN AMERICAN FAMILY

An American Film
By Eric Krueger

Pat Loud
Interview by Melinda Ward

Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond and John Terry
Interview by Melinda Ward

LENI RIEFENSTAHL
By Richard Meran Barsam
Artifice and truth in a world apart

ROBERT FLAHERTY
By Richard Corliss
The man in the iron myth

REMEMBERING FRANCIS FLAHERTY
By Ricky Leacock

TERRIBLE BUILDINGS
By Robin Wood
The world of Georges Franju

ALAIN RESNAIS
By Peter Harcourt
“Memory is kept alive with dreams”

MAKAVEJEV
By Amos Vogel
Toward the edge of the real and over

BOOKS
Reviewed by Stuart Liebman and William Murphy