The Best Books About Film

[Maltic]

I have a few copies of the first volume ('Aldrich to King').

I've attempted to buy vol. 2 ('Kinugasa to Zanussi'), or both volumes together, a number of times on Amazon Marketplace, but I keep receiving just another copy of vol. 1...

It's a great book, but when it occurs to me to look up a particular director, it'll usually be someone from the latter part of the alphabet, and I'm, like, "doh!"

[reaky]

Yes, my immediate reaction to a dictionary of directors was “Ah, Lang, Ozu, Powell, Sirk, Sternberg, Welles, Wilder!” My taste in directors is oddly weighted towards the second half of the alphabet.

[domino harvey]

Love Roud, have his books on Godard and Langlois but haven't checked those comps out yet-- thanks for the rec!

[Maltic]

Langlois himself has an article on early French cinema in vol. 1.

I thought I'd give vol. 2 another go. It had been a few years since my last attempt. Hopefully Ebay does better than Marketplace.

[Maltic]

Thanks to eBay, I finally have both volumes.

A few of editor Roud's comments and updates (which he has put in bold after each entry/article in the book):

I do not share Gillett's and many others' enthusiasm for what little of Kinugasa's work I have seen. And I find it hard to believe that Kinugasa had not seen any German expressionist films before making his in any case overrated curiousity A Page of Madness.

The presence of Robert Kramer and the absence of Stanley Kramer from this Dictionary are not accidental.

It would seem that the 'spaghetti Western' has gone into decline. Leone has not been active of late (except as producer), and the Trinità series gets more mediocre with each film. A temporary eclipse of the genre, or is it played out? I'd plumb for the latter explanation, but we shall see.

[Per] Lindberg cannot even be said to be a 'subject for further research', because, as far as I know, very few people have seen any of his films. He is the only director in this Dictionary about whom this could be said. Is Cozarinsky right? Perhaps we shall find out one day; meanwhile, Lindberg has his place in this Dictionary as a salutary example of terra incognita in film history

[therewillbeblus]

Does anybody know if there's an English-friendly physical copy or PDF available of the Cahiers du Cinema issue entirely devoted to analyzing Leos Carax' Les Amants du Pont-Neuf ?

[beamish14]

Does anybody know if there's an English-friendly physical copy or PDF available of the Cahiers du Cinema issue entirely devoted to analyzing Leos Carax' Les Amants du Pont-Neuf ?

Is this the October 1991 issue with it on the cover, or is there another?

[therewillbeblus]

Does anybody know if there's an English-friendly physical copy or PDF available of the Cahiers du Cinema issue entirely devoted to analyzing Leos Carax' Les Amants du Pont-Neuf ?

Is this the October 1991 issue with it on the cover, or is there another?

I'd imagine so - I just know they did an entire issue on it around the time of release

[domino harvey]

It's available as part of a big torrent of Cahiers du Cinema on back channels (issues 301-500-something), but you'll need to translate it

[therewillbeblus]

It's available as part of a big torrent of Cahiers du Cinema on back channels (issues 301-500-something), but you'll need to translate it

I saw that and figured I'd be able to find it in there, but didn't know the issue number and don't know how to translate. Thanks anyways!

[TechnicolorAcid]

It's available as part of a big torrent of Cahiers du Cinema on back channels (issues 301-500-something), but you'll need to translate it

I saw that and figured I'd be able to find it in there, but didn't know the issue number and don't know how to translate. Thanks anyways!

Found this:

Supplement to the n°448, 01.10.1991, under the direction of Leos Carrax on the occasion of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf release's in cinema.

[therewillbeblus]

Thanks, that seems to be the right one - There's just a long segment dedicated to it, but that makes more sense than an entire magazine!