Letters from Hollywood : 1977-2017 / Bill Krohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krohn, Bill, author.

Series:

SUNY series, horizons of cinema.

The SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--California--Los Angeles--Reviews.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2020.

Summary:

Journalist and filmmaker Bill Krohn has been the Los Angeles correspondent for the French magazine Cahiers du cinéma for over forty years. Letters from Hollywood brings together thirty-four of his essays, many of them appearing in English for the first time. Focusing most pieces on a particular director and film, Krohn uses his inside knowledge of the studio system to illuminate an art that is also a multibillion-dollar business. He connects currents in French film criticism and theory with an unfolding account of American cinema past and present, offering penetrating insights into directors and their work. Beginning with Allan Dwan, who learned how to make movies before Hollywood was born by watching D. W. Griffith, Krohn presents a panorama that encompasses Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and Sergio Leone, Star Wars and I Love Lucy. He covers everything from gangsters to gremlins, from blockbusters to no-budget cult films like Moon Over Harlem and Plan 9 from Outer Space, in a style that is accessible to anyone who loves movies, or has a passion for writing about them.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 How I Became the Los Angeles Correspondent for Cahiers du cinéma

Notations

2 On Daney (1977)

The Tinkerers

Interview with Serge Daney

Notations to "The Tinkerers"

Notations to the Interview

3 Serge Daney (1944-1992)

Notation

Directors Who Started in Silents

4 Allan Dwan: The Cliff and the Flume

5 Raoul Walsh: Objective, Burma!

6 Haunted Hollywood: 1979

7 John Ford: December 7: The Movie

Mothers

Mata Haris and Hula Girls

Mirrorland Mirror for the Future

A Word from Our Sponsor

A Mirror for the Past

Shadowland

1. Shadow Play

2. The Radar Operator

3. Dialogue of Shades

8 Hawks at Work: The Making of Land of the Pharaohs

9 Alfred Hitchcock: Shelling the Lifeboat

10 Alfred Hitchcock: Dark Carnival

Directors Who Started in Talkies

11 "All This Is So": Orson Welles's Shakespeare Films

Theory: Bazin and Welles

Symbolic Architecture

The Disappearance of the Audience

The Text

12 Ulmer without Tears

13 Phil Karlson Confidential

Monogram

Exterieur Nuit

Who Is Phil Karlson?

14 Nicholas Ray: We Can't Go Home Again

The Hero's Return

Scenes

The Hero's Death

Screens

15 Robert Aldrich: Sodom and Gomorrah

A Marxist Parable

Cinema and Sadism

16 Blake Edwards: Skin Deep

17 Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in America

Directors Who Started in Television

18 Lucille Ball: I Love Lucy

19 Le Cas Wood

20 Robert Altman: Prêt-à-Porter

21 Stanley Kubrick: Full Metal Jacket

22 John Frankenheimer: Jonah

Continuities

Reluctant Prophet.

Revolution and Utopia

The Island of Dr. Moreau

George Wallace and Path to War

23 Monte Hellman: Iguana

The Melville Connection

A Laconic Cinema

Oberlus

24 Monte Hellman Today

Directors Who Counterattacked

25 Woody Allen: Zelig

I

II

III

26 William Friedkin: Cruising

The Friedkin Method

Stakeout on Gay Street

Steve and Nancy

Steve and Stuart

27 Francis Ford Coppola: Peggy Sue Got Married

28 Richard Brooks: In Cold Blood

29 Star Wars: Reversing the Signs

30 Dante's Inferno

31 John Landis: The Stupids

The Name of the Rose

There Is Nothing Outside of the Text

How to Increase Your Word Power

32 Ang Lee: The Ice Storm

33 Tim Burton: Ed Wood

34 David O. Russell: Flirting with Disaster

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438477657

1438477651