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280

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Cover of: The best American movie writing, 1999
The best American movie writing, 1999
1999, St. Martin's Griffin
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Cover of: The Best American Movie Writing 1999 (Best American Movie Writing)
The Best American Movie Writing 1999 (Best American Movie Writing)
October 12, 1999, St. Martin's Griffin
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Table of Contents

Foreword -- Jason Shinder
Introduction: Retracing older steps and new -- Peter Bogdanovich
A box filled with magic -- Martin Scorsese
The moviegoers : why don't people love the right movies anymore? -- David Denby
A touch of the 1940s woman in the '90s -- Molly Haskell
I fired Capra -- Gore Vidal
I would toss myself aside : confessions of a Catholic film critic -- Richard Alleva
Afterwards : the sweet smell of success -- James Mangold
Moving pictures -- Bruce Wagner
Mighty aphrodites -- Terrence Rafferty
The glory of Cary Grant and other girlish delights -- Elizabeth Abele
One good take : Frank Sinatra -- Robert Horton
The color of war -- Douglas Brinkley
Of guts and glory -- Steven Spielberg
Eve's bayou : too good to be a "black" film? -- Mia L. Mask
Yasujiro Ozu : the subtly observant eye -- Phillip Lopate
Deliverance -- John Brodie
'Touch of evil' retouched -- Jonathan Rosenbaum
You ain't heard nothin' yet -- Andrew Sarris
My stardust memories -- William Zinsser
Oh, Kay! You're ok with me -- Rex Reed
The devil beats his wife : small moments and big statements in the films of Charles Burnett -- Cliff Thompson
Cruel to be kind -- Chris Chang
Riskinesque : how Robert Riskin spoke through Frank Capra and vice versa -- Joseph McBride
Leo McCarey and "family values" -- Robin Wood
Nine great movies -- Roger Ebert
The movie of the century -- Geoffrey O'Brien.

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Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/75/0973
Library of Congress
PN1993 .B443

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Pagination
xvii, 280 p. ;
Number of pages
280

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Open Library
OL24831166M
Internet Archive
bestamericanmovi00bogd
ISBN 10
0312244932
ISBN 13
9780312244934
OCLC/WorldCat
42846524

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