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Winter 1965

Extensive consideration of Leni Riefenstahl, contemporary German film, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert, Michael Roemer’s Nothing but a Man

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Issue Details

Interview with a Legend
By Gordon Hitchens

Biographical Sketch of Leni Riefenstahl

Triumph of the Will detailed shooting outline and program notes by Marshall Lewis

A Comeback for Leni Riefenstahl?
By Ulrich Gregor

Can the Will Triumph?
By Robert Gardner

The Chronic Crisis in West German Film
By Jules Cohen

Clean Germans and Dirty Politics
By Martin S. Dworkin

Film Marathon at Mannheim
By Gordon Hitchens

Notes on the Documentary Film Week in Mannheim
By Erwin Leiser

“Choose Life”

Woman in the Dunes

Book and Film Review
By Adrienne Mancia

A Conversation with Two Japanese Film Stars, Noboru Nakaya and Kyoko Kishida

Review
By Kirk Bond

Thoughts on Woman in the Dunes
By Clara Hoover

Book Reviews

The Journal of the Society of Cinematologists
Reviewed by John Craddock

The Oscar by Richard Sale
Reviewed by Stuart A. Selby

Joris Ivens and Alberto Cavallanti
Reviewed by William Sloan

A Million and One Nights by Terry Ramsaye
Reviewed by William Sloan

Film Reviews

The Red Desert
By Jules Cohen

Nothing but a Man
William Howton

Bay of Angels
By Dolores Hitchens

San Francisco Forecast: Continued Fog and Drizzle
By Harriet Polt

Letters to the Editor

Interview with a Legend
By Gordon Hitchens

Biographical Sketch of Leni Riefenstahl

Triumph of the Will detailed shooting outline and program notes by Marshall Lewis

A Comeback for Leni Riefenstahl?
By Ulrich Gregor

Can the Will Triumph?
By Robert Gardner

The Chronic Crisis in West German Film
By Jules Cohen

Clean Germans and Dirty Politics
By Martin S. Dworkin

Film Marathon at Mannheim
By Gordon Hitchens

Notes on the Documentary Film Week in Mannheim
By Erwin Leiser

“Choose Life”

Woman in the Dunes

Book and Film Review
By Adrienne Mancia

A Conversation with Two Japanese Film Stars, Noboru Nakaya and Kyoko Kishida

Review
By Kirk Bond

Thoughts on Woman in the Dunes
By Clara Hoover

Book Reviews

The Journal of the Society of Cinematologists
Reviewed by John Craddock

The Oscar by Richard Sale
Reviewed by Stuart A. Selby

Joris Ivens and Alberto Cavallanti
Reviewed by William Sloan

A Million and One Nights by Terry Ramsaye
Reviewed by William Sloan

Film Reviews

The Red Desert
By Jules Cohen

Nothing but a Man
William Howton

Bay of Angels
By Dolores Hitchens

San Francisco Forecast: Continued Fog and Drizzle
By Harriet Polt

Letters to the Editor