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My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Phillip Lopate's selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century, inviting readers to experience films he found exhilarating, tantalizing, and beguiling-and sometimes disappointing or frustrating-through his keen eyes.
List of contents
Introduction
Curtain Raisers1. On Changing One's Mind About a Movie
2. How I Look at Movies
Feature Films3. Maren Ade:
The Forest for the Trees4. Chantal Akerman:
No Home Movie5. Antonioni's
Le Amiche: Another Look
6. Ingmar Bergman:
Scenes from a Marriage and
Saraband7. Raymond Bernard:
Wooden Crosses and
Les Misérables8. Robert Bresson:
Mouchette9. Lino Broca:
Insiang10. John Cassavetes:
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie11. Claude Chabrol:
The Swindle12. George Clooney:
Good Night, and Good Luck13. David Cronenberg:
eXistenZ14. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
15. Arnaud Desplechin:
A Christmas Tale16. Carl Dreyer:
Gertrud17. Lena Dunham:
Tiny Furniture18. Paul Fejos:
Lonesome19. Emannuel Finkiel:
Voyages20. John Ford:
The Sun Shines Bright21. Jean-Luc Godard:
Breathless and
Band of Outsiders22. Hong Sang-soo
23. Hou Hsiao-hsien
24. Otar Iosseliani
25. Elia Kazan
26. Abbas Kiarostami:
Through the Olive Trees and
Taste of Cherry27. Hirokazu Kore-eda
28. Akira Kurosawa:
Rashomon29. Alberto Lattuada:
Mafioso30. Richard Linklater:
Before Midnight31. Harold Lloyd:
Speedy32. Ernst Lubitsch
33. Sidney Lumet:
Long Day's Journey Into Night34. David Lynch:
Mulholland Drive35. Dušan Makavejev: The Wolf and the Teddy Bear
36. Kenji Mizoguchi:
Ugetsu and
Utamaro and His Five Women37. Mikio Naruse:
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs38. Yasujir¿ Ozu:
Late Spring39. Christian Petzold:
Barbara40. Maurice Pialat:
Naked Childhood,
Van Gogh, and
Le Garçu41. Alain Resnais: Middle and Late Resnais
42. Dino Risi:
Il Sorpasso43. Éric Rohmer:
La Collectionneuse,
The Marquise of O, and
Le Rayon Vert44. Raúl Ruiz:
Time Regained45. Alexander Sokurov
46. Paolo Sorrentino:
The Great Beauty47. Jean-Marie Straub
Not Reconciled48. Andrei Tarkovsky:
Solaris49. François Truffaut
Intermission: Documentaries and Essay Films50. Frederick Wiseman: Composing an American Epic
51. Alain Resnais:
Night and Fog52. Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin:
Chronicle of a Summer53. Alan Berliner
54. Robert Gardner:
Dead Birds55. Sam Green and Bill Spiegel:
The Weather Underground56. Jafar Panahi:
This Is Not a Film57. Documentary Splendors and Errors
58. Ross McElwee:
Bright Leaves59. Mark Rappaport's Essay Films
60. Marcel Ophuls
61. City Essay Films
Film Critics62. The Making of Manny Farber
63. Roger Ebert:
Life Itself64. Stanley Kauffmann
65. Pauline Kael: A Biography
66. Stanley Cavell
67. James Harvey
68. Jonathan Rosenbaum
69. Jonathan Baumbach
Exit Music: A Few Last Thoughts70. Repertory Movie Theaters, Ravishing Revivals
Conclusion: The Faith of a Cineaste
Notes
About the author
Phillip Lopate
Summary
My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Phillip Lopate’s selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century, inviting readers to experience films he found exhilarating, tantalizing, and beguiling—and sometimes disappointing or frustrating—through his keen eyes.
