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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: 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)

Part 2: 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)

Part 3: 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)

Part 4: Revivals and Retrospectives
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (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)

Appendix: Top Ten Lists, 1974–86