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The Pledge

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  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword ix
  4. Introduction xvii
  5. Selections from the Introductions to the Previous Volumes xxi
  6. 25th Hour 3
  7. A. I. Artificial Intelligence 7
  8. An Autumn Afternoon 12
  9. Badlands 16
  10. The Ballad of Narayama 20
  11. Barry Lyndon 23
  12. The Big Lebowski 27
  13. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 31
  14. Caché 35
  15. La Ceremonie 39
  16. The Circus 43
  17. La Collectionneuse 47
  18. Come and See 51
  19. Contact 55
  20. Day for Night 59
  21. Departures 62
  22. Diary of a Country Priest 66
  23. Diary of a Lost Girl 70
  24. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 74
  25. French Cancan 78
  26. The Grey Zone 82
  27. The Hairdresser’s Husband 86
  28. Harakiri 90
  29. Heart of Glass 94
  30. In a Lonely Place 98
  31. Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II 102
  32. The Killing 106
  33. Leon Morin, Priest 110
  34. Lost in Translation 114
  35. Make Way for Tomorrow 118
  36. A Man Escaped 122
  37. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 126
  38. Man with a Movie Camera 130
  39. The Match Factory Girl 134
  40. Mon oncle d’Amerique 138
  41. Monsieur Hire 142
  42. Mulholland Dr 146
  43. Mystery Train 150
  44. Night Moves 154
  45. Nosferatu the Vampyre 158
  46. The Only Son 162
  47. Pale Flower 166
  48. Pink Floyd: The Wall 170
  49. The Pledge 174
  50. Red Beard 178
  51. Richard III 182
  52. Rio Bravo 186
  53. Senso 190
  54. Seven 194
  55. Shadow of a Doubt 198
  56. Shoah 202
  57. Smiles of a Summer Night 208
  58. Souls for Sale 212
  59. The Spirit of the Beehive 216
  60. Spirited Away 219
  61. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring 223
  62. Stagecoach 227
  63. Superman 232
  64. Tender Mercies 236
  65. Veronika Voss 240
  66. Viridiana 244
  67. Yellow Submarine 248
  68. Essays Appearing in The Great Movies (2002) 253
  69. Essays Appearing in The Great Movies II (2005) 255
  70. Essays Appearing in The Great Movies III (2010) 257
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