THE SILENT HEART
By Scott Eyman
Frank Borzage’s Lucky Star shines anew
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
By Donald Chase
Claude Chabrol at 60: the reigning classicist of the French New Wave ventures into Tradition of Quality territory to film Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. An on-set report from Normandy
CONNECTICUT YANKEE
By Robert Horton
Turning dubious material into dandy movies (starting with Valley Girl) endears a director to cinemaddicts but wins scant renown. With Rambling Rose, the lusty, sweet-natured, beautifully acted and ethically triumphant screen version of Calder Willingham’s novel, Martha Coolidge may finally get the attention she’s long deserved
THE FRIENDS OF KANE
By Peter Hogue
Can we trust anyone’s word in Citizen Kane? And if not, why not?
FILMS AS SPIRITUAL LIFE
By Phillip Lopate
A collegiate encounter with Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest marks a novelist for life. Mostly, he’s happy about it
DER ERSHTER TALKIES
By J. Hoberman
Uncle Moses and the coming of the Yiddish sound film
FESTIVAL BEAT
Venice: old meets new by Harlan Kennedy
Toronto: Festival of Festivals by Kathleen Murphy, David Chute
New York: the long and the short of it by Robert Horton, Donald Lyons, Nicholas Nicastro
FORBIDDEN GAMES
Marcel Carné interviewed by Brian Stonehill
Making an epic—the peerless Children of Paradise—under the Nazi Occupation
OSCAR EATEN BY WOLVES
By Wayne Michael Sarf
Snapping back at Kevin Costner
LIFE WITH VIDEO
By Frank Thompson, Gregory Luce
Mortality alerts
CLOUZOT’S WILD BUNCH
By Dale Thomajan
The Wages of Fear
SEE YOU IN THE TREES
By Greg Olson
On the set of the Twin Peaks movie
