When movies mattered [Texte imprimé] : reviews from a transformative decade / Dave Kehr

Notes bibliogr.

The best. 1974: Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir) -- 1976: Family plot (Alfred Hitchcock) -- 1977: F for fake (Orson Welles) -- 1978: Days of heaven (Terrence Malick) -- 1979: 10 (Blake Edwards) -- 1981: Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme) -- 1982: The aviator's wife (Eric Rohmer) -- 1983: Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira) -- The end of classical Hollywood. Classical Hollywood. The man who would be king (John Huston) -- Fedora (Billy Wilder) -- Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel) -- The human factor (Otto Preminger). New Hollywood. The driver (Walter Hill) -- Halloween (John Carpenter) -- Reds (Warren Beatty) -- Sudden impact (Clint Eastwood). New directions in comedy. Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards) -- Risky business (Paul Brickman) -- Lost in America (Albert Brooks) -- After hours (Martin Scorsese) Mavericks and outsiders. Dawn of the dead (George Romero) -- The big red one (Samuel Fuller) -- Love streams (John Cassavetes) -- Trouble in mind (Alan Rudolph) -- Other visions. Old masters. Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rossellini) -- A piece of pleasure (Claude Chabrol) -- That obscure object of desire (Luis Buñuel) -- Perceval (Eric Rohmer). Godard. Numéro deux -- Every man for himself -- Passion -- Detective. New masters. Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 (Alain Tanner) -- The memory of justice (Marcel Ophuls) -- Allegro non troppo (Bruno Bozzetto) -- The American friend (Wim Wenders) -- Loulou (Maurice Pialat) -- Eijanaika (Shohei Imamura) -- Coup de torchon (Bertrand Tavernier) -- City of pirates (Raul Ruiz). Revivals and retrospectives. The story of the last chyrsanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi) -- The flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini) -- Born in Germany, raised in Hollywood: the film art of Fritz Lang -- Record of a tenement gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu) -- Peeping Tom (Michael Powell) -- Othello (Orson Welles) -- Crisis, compulsion, and creation: Raoul Walsh's cinema of the individual -- A love that caresses the soul: films by Carl Theodor Dreyer -- When a woman ascends the stairs (Mikio Naruse) -- Le silence de la mer and Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville) -- The leopard (Luchino Visconti) -- Hitch's riddle: on five rereleased films -- Once upon a time in the west (Sergio Leone) -- French cancan (Jean Renoir)