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A year in the dark, journal of a film critic, 1968-69. / Renata Adler.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adler, Renata.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Reviews.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Reviews.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxv pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 354 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1969]
- Contents:
- The wicked dreams of Paula Schultz
- The movies make heroes of them all
- Norman Mailer's Wild 90
- China is near: A mother is like a flower
- Venom: Two purposes in life
- Our monuments to how it was
- Mann's Tonio Kroger
- The biggest bundle of them all at an all-night theater
- Cartooning and Animations: Zagreb
- Love song of two paragons: Questions of geography, mass production and personal hygiene
- The good, the bad and the ugly: Immortal lines
- Sebastian: Omnispoof
- Cold blood, cheap fiction
- The bright side of Poor cow and things lost track of
- Today's stars, and the point where the quiet center tilts
- Doctor Faustus: Mr. Burton and Miss Taylor half in Tamburlaine
- Sweeet November: Twelve affairs at the music hall
- Planet of the apes
- Winter kept us warm at colleges
- A brilliant breakdown
- Albert Finney's Charlie Bubbles
- The fastest guitar alive at exam time
- Tell me lies tells you how to go mindless
- Claude Berri's The two of us
- Half a sixpence
- Sidney Lumet, groups and Bye bye Braverman
- The imperialist scriptwriter and A matter of innocence
- Underground Windflowers and Guerrilla newsreel
- The fox, and Charlie Bubbles again on Sunday
- The treasure of San Gennaro: Breaking-and-entering addicts
- We still kill the old way
- Paul Newman in The secret war of Harry Frigg
- The negro that movies overlook: Stereotypes
- Voices in Here we go round the Mulberry bush
- Whole cloth: 30 is a dangerous age, Cynthia
- The power gives one pause
- Not tuning in to the sound of new music
- Monica Vitti, sex comedy, The queens
- Wading into the lives of other people, Up the junction
- Nemec's Diamonds of the night and Eisenstein's strike
- Kahlil Gibran's The broken wings
- On reviewing, I: Turnstiles
- The producers: A gay romp in Berchtesgaden and one mistake
- Awards, feathers, I even met happy gypsies
- Bette Davis in The anniversary
- Disney studio's The one and only genuine original family band
- If you need anything, just whistle: sex
- Benjamin
- Psych-out and Cobra
- Anyone for a good cry: Empathies
- A dandy in Aspic: Trying to play monotone
- Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A space odyssey
- Jean-Luc Godard's La chinoise
- Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone!
- Drive-ins: To park and get protection
- Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the wolf
- Will Penny
- Sugared calamity: The young girls of Rochefort
- Horror films, Bergman and Belle de jour
- The underground and Illiac passion
- Self-addressed polemics, Maoists and girls on Sunday
- Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda in Yours, mine and ours: Don't look at me. I just got here
- Godard's Les Carabiniers
- On short films
- War and peace
- The spy film: Yul Brynner in The double man
- The odd couple, from the stage
- War, foreign languages and war again on Sunday
- Physical courage, The fifth horseman is fear
- Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller and N.B.C. in the private navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
- Style politics: The demonstration as film
- Robbe-Grillet's Trans-Europe express: The notion that things make any sense at all
- Therese and Isabel
- Style politics II: La chinoise on Sunday
- Pharmacology, Prudence and the pill
- Fracas at the Cannes festival
- How their world might ideally be
- Bellochio's Fist in his pocket: People for whom happiness is not at all possible
- The long day's dying
- Wild in the streets
- Two films that opened the day after the shooting in Los Angeles
- Very far from Vietnam
- On unvicarious suffering in voices in old age home
- Richard Lester's Petulia
- Survival 1967
- Roman Polanski's Rosemary's baby
- Elvis Presley in Speedway, and Sol Madrid
- Children and metaphors
- The queen of the Camp pageant
- The green berets
- Luis Bunuel's Nazarin: Bubonic mirth
- Claiming responsibility, asserting control
- Francois Truffaut's The bride wore black
- The Thomas Crown affair
- Have you heard of the San Francisco Mine Troupe?
- The absolute end of the romance of war
- Dark of the sun and Custer of the west: Hostels
- Anyone for a laugh: Exemptions
- Alan Arkin in Inspector Clouseau
- Marcello Mastroianni in Kiss the other sheik
- The heart is a lonely hunter: Place resonance
- Time, old movies and exhausting life
- Today Malone in Revolution
- Wholesomeness when the lights went out
- Chance and a personal signature
- True Hunger
- The conqueror worm and other horrors
- Steps, trenches and the love of ivy
- Hugs and kisses, beetles
- The legend of Lylah Clare
- Traversing distances to strangers
- Joanne Woodward in Rachel, Rachel
- In old port of Rome Rossellini makes a film
- The insane world: where will they work?
- Venice film festival, if there should be a death, Pasolini and La Patate
- More festival in Venice
- Our Faces, laughter, narrative
- From spaghetti to Paella westerns
- Jean Renoir's Toni
- Orson Welles's The immortal story
- Funny girl
- A report on the party and the guests
- Film time: La religieuse
- You are what you eat
- Marzipan sensuality: 24 hours in a woman's life
- Intense whisper: Two or three things I know about her
- Claude Chabrol's Les biches
- A terminal smashup: Weekend
- Naked childhood and natural singing
- A cinematheque for us
- The fireman's ball and oratorio for Prague
- Patience for the transition to little films
- Zeffirelli's (and some of Shakespeare's) Romeo and Juliet
- Finian's Listless Rainbow
- Barbarella
- Temper, misogyny and couples in theaters
- Steve McQueen in Peter Yates's Bullitt
- Tony Curtis in The alleged Boston strangler
- Thoughts for 1,001 nights, and Warrendale
- Julie Andrews in Star!
- Weekend, and antagonizing audiences
- The hard ticket Lion in winter
- The split
- Shalako, cinerama, Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot
- The Monkees in Head
- A terrific moment in The split, ramblings and a night at C.C.N.Y.
- Yellow submarine
- Anthony Quinn in The shoes of the fisherman
- The Beatles, a good non-literary education under forty
- Godard stalks the real through movies: Report when color adds nothing
- Joanna (and Faces)
- On reviewing, II: A Wayne sympathetic frame of mind
- Euphemisms: The impossible years
- Michael Sarne sees his film at the movies
- The fixer
- The magus
- Shells on Sunday
- The killing of Sister George: Not much of a first
- Candy
- Chitty Chitty bang bang
- Ice station Zebra
- The ten best films of 1968
- Shame
- Monterey Pop
- Documentary and Up tight
- James Card of the Eastman house
- Three Cuban cultural reports with films somewhere in them.
- Notes:
- Author's first book.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 53952
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