Decades never start on time : a Richard Roud anthology /: a Richard Roud anthology. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Richard Roud anthology
• Uniform Title: Works.
• Further Information: Note: By Richard Roud ; edited by Michael Temple & Karen Smolens.
• Authors: Roud, Richard
• Editors: Temple, Michael, 1963-; Smolens, Karen
• Other Names: British Film Institute, issuing body.
• Contents: Acknowledgements.- Preface; David Thomson.- Introduction; Michael Temple.- Chronology; Karen Smolens.- PART 1: 1956-1962.- 1.1 'Britain in America' 1.2 Max Ophüls: An Index (extract) 1.3 'Face to face: James Agee' 1.4 'Face to face: André Bazin' 1.5 'How to see a movie (in the USA)' 1.6 'Novel novel; fable fable?' 1.7 'National Film Theatre: the first ten years' 1.8 'The Left Bank: Marker, Varda, Resnais'.- PART 2: 1963-1969 2.1 'Festival at the Lincoln Center' 2.2 'End of Bardolotry' 2.3 'Muriel observed' 2.4 'Cannes ho!' 2.5 'Rondo Galant: the world of Jacques Demy' 2.6 'The Red Desert' 2.7 'Object lesson' 2.8 'Anguish: Alphaville' 2.9 'New films' 2.10 'Film criticism in Britain' 2.11 'Masculin féminin' 2.12 'Far from Vietnam' 2.13 'A Langlois unto himself' 2.14 'Weekend in Paris' 2.15 'The end of the Cannes party' 2.16 'Minimal cinema: Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach' 2.17 'The Cossacks go in at Pesaro' 2.18 'If with no buts' 2.19 'Le Gai Savoir'.- PART 3: 1970-1976 3.1 'The varieties of tyranny' 3.2 'Films to change the world?' 3.3 'Fathers and sons' 3.4 'Look back in shame' 3.5 'Going between' 3.6 'The international gravy train' 3.7 'Visconti misses the gondola' 3.8 Jean-Marie Straub (extracts) 3.9 'Daddy of 'em all' 3.10 'The dragon…'3.11 'It takes two to tango' 3.12 'How can we know the dancer from the dance?' 3.13 'Hollywood embers' 3.14 'Apple pie bedlam' 3.15 'The Rules of the Game' 3.16 'Hold the front page' 3.17 'The Passenger' 3.18 'Film of the century' 3.19 'Memorandum on processes of prospection and selection' 3.20 'Movies versus motion pictures'.- PART 4: 1977-1983 4.1 'Henri Langlois' 4.2 'The Left Bank revisited' 4.3 'The baggy-trousered philanthropist' 4.4 'Robert Bresson' 4.5 'Feuillade and the serial' 4.6 'Jean Renoir to 1939' 4.7 'London and New York' 4.8 'Gross can be beautiful' 4.9 'Biter bit' 4.10 A Passion for Films (extracts) 4.11 'The first foreign-language film I ever saw…' 4.12 'Melville'.- PART 5: 1984-1989 5.1 'Decades Never Start On Time' (extracts) 5.2 'The moral taste of Lotte Eisner' 5.3 'Remembering Losey' 5.4 'An Untitled Biography of Truffaut' (extract).- Bibliography.- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : British Film Institute
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 791.4375; Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781838715243
• Related ISBNs: 183871524X; 9781844576258
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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