Essential cinema : on the necessity of film canons / Jonathan Rosenbaum ; with a new afterword.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenbaum, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 p.)

Edition:

Johns Hopkins pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A cogent and provocative argument about the art of film, Essential Cinema is a fiercely independent reference book of must-see movies for film lovers everywhere.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. CLASSICS

Fables of the Reconstruction: The Four-Hour Greed

Fascinating Rhythms: M

The Color of Paradise: Jour de fête

Backyard Ethics: Hitchcock's Rear Window

Songs in the Key of Everyday Life: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

A Tale of the Wind: Joris Ivens's Last Testament

Kira Muratova's Home Truths: The Asthenic Syndrome

The Importance of Being Sarcastic: Sátántangó

Blush

The Ceremony

Thieves

True Grit: Rosetta

II. SPECIAL PROBLEMS

Malick's Progress

Improvisations and Interactions in Altmanville, with an Afterword: Nashville

Mixed Emotions: Breaking the Waves

Fast, Cheap &amp

Out of Control

The Sweet Cheat: Time Regained

James Benning's Four Corners

Overrated Solutions: L'humanité

The Sound of German: Straub-Huillet's The Death of Empedocles

Beyond the Clouds: Return to Beauty

Reality and History as the Apotheosis of Southern Sleaze: Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story

Is Ozu Slow?

The Human Touch: Decalogue and Fargo

III. OTHER CANONS, OTHER CANONIZERS

Life Intimidates Art: Irma Vep

Stanley Kwan's Actress: Writing History in Quicksand

Critical Distance: Godard's Contempt

Remember Amnesia? (Guy Maddin's Archangel), with an Afterword: Ten Years Later (Please Watch Carefully: The Heart of the World)

Ragged but Right: Rivette's Up Down Fragile

Critic with a Camera: Marker on Tarkovsky

Riddles of a Sphinx: From the Journals of Jean Seberg

International Harvest: National Film Histories on Video

International Sampler: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Not the Same Old Song and Dance: The Young Girls of Rochefort

Flaming Creatures and Scotch Tape

Ruiz Hopping and Buried Treasures: Twelve Selected Global Sites

IV. DISPUTABLE CONTENDERS

Back in Style: Bertolucci's Besieged.

The Young One: Buñuel's Neglected Masterpiece

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut

The Best of Both Worlds: A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Under the Chador: The Day I Became a Woman

Chains of Ignorance: Charles Burnett's Nightjohn

Good Vibrations: Waking Life

Hell on Wheels: Taxi Driver

Meat, John, Dough: Pretty Woman

Tashlinesque

Weird and Wonderful: Takeshi Kitano's Kikujiro

*Corpus Callosum

V. FILMMAKERS

Mann of the West

Otto Preminger

Nicholas Ray

Exiles in Modernity: Films by Edward Yang

Hou Hsiao-hsien: Becoming Taiwanese

The Countercultural Histories of Rudy Wurlitzer

Samuel Fuller: The Words of an Innocent Warrior

The Mysterious Elaine May: Hiding in Plain Sight

Visionary Agitprop: I Am Cuba

The Battle over Orson Welles

License to Feel: Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Neon Bible

Death and Life: Landscapes of the Soul-The Cinema of Alexander Dovzhenko

Appendix: 1,000 Favorites (A Personal Canon)

Index

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N

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Q

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Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9514-6

OCLC:

647881188