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Winter 1971–1972

Jean Cocteau, Stanley Kubrick interview, paranoia in Hollywood, Jacques Demy, Ernst Lubitsch in the Thirties, lost films, Alice AdamsHappiness, Robin Wood

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JOURNALS

Paris
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Los Angeles
By Jim Kitses

THE FILMS OF BILLY WILDER
By Stephen Farber

THE TESTAMENT OF JEAN COCTEAU
By George Amberg

WHERE HAVE ALL THE POWERS GONE?
By Stanley Kauffmann

KUBRICK
Interviewed by Gene Phillips

PARANOIA IN HOLLYWOOD
By Paul Jensen

JACQUES DEMY
By Graham Petrie

LUBITSCH IN THE THIRTIES
By Andrew Sarris

THE SEARCH FOR LOST FILMS
An interview with David Shepard

FILM FAVORITES

Elliott Sirkin on Alice Adams
Gary Carey on Happiness

CRITICS
Robin Wood
By Foster Hirsch

BOOK REVIEWS

The American Film Instituted Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921–1930 compiled and edited by The American Film Institute
Reviewed by Andrew C. McKay

Frank Capra: The Name Above the Title by Frank Capra
Reviewed by Jean-Loup Bourget

History of the Kinetographi, Kinetoscope and Kinetophonograph by W.K.L. and Antonia Dickson

Motion Picture Work by David S. Hulfish

The New Spirit in the Cinema by Huntley Carter

The Art of the Motion Pictures by Jean Benoit-Levy

The Negro in Films by Peter Noble
Reviewed by Lewis Jacobs

A-Z of Movie Making by Wolf Rilla

Outline of Czechoslovakian Cinema by Langdon Dewy

An Introduction to the Egyptian Cinema by M. Khan
Reviewed by Norman Kagan

The Parade’s Gone By by Kevin Brownlow
Reviewed by Howard Suber

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