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Hitch’s Riddle: On Five Rereleased Films

  • Dave Kehr
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When Movies Mattered
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© 2019 University of Chicago Press

© 2019 University of Chicago Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part 1: The Best
  6. 1974: Le Petit théâtre de Jean Renoir 13
  7. 1976: Family Plot 16
  8. 1977: F for Fake 19
  9. 1978: Days of Heaven 23
  10. 1979: 10 28
  11. 1981: Melvin and Howard 35
  12. 1982: The Aviator’s Wife 40
  13. 1983: Francisca 44
  14. Part 2: The End of Classical Hollywood
  15. CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD
  16. The Man Who Would Be King 52
  17. Fedora 55
  18. Escape From Alcatraz 58
  19. The Human Factor 61
  20. NEW HOLLYWOOD
  21. The Driver 67
  22. Halloween 72
  23. Reds 75
  24. Sudden Impact 79
  25. NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMEDY
  26. Victor/Victoria 85
  27. Risky Business 91
  28. Lost in America 95
  29. After Hours 100
  30. MAVERICKS AND OUTSIDERS
  31. Dawn of the Dead 106
  32. The Big Red One 112
  33. Love Streams 116
  34. Trouble in Mind 122
  35. Part 3: Other Visions
  36. OLD MASTERS
  37. Blaise Pascal 130
  38. A Piece of Pleasure 132
  39. That Obscure Object of Desire 135
  40. Perceval 139
  41. GODARD
  42. Numéro deux 144
  43. Every Man for Himself 149
  44. Passion 154
  45. Detective 158
  46. NEW MASTERS
  47. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 163
  48. The Memory of Justice 167
  49. Allegro non troppo 171
  50. The American Friend 174
  51. Loulou 178
  52. Eijanaika 182
  53. Coup de torchon 186
  54. City of Pirates 190
  55. Part 4: Revivals and Retrospectives
  56. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 197
  57. The Flowers of St. Francis 201
  58. Born in Germany, Raised in Hollywood: The Film Art of Fritz Lang 204
  59. Record of a Tenement Gentleman 210
  60. Peeping Tom 214
  61. Othello 219
  62. Crisis, Compulsion, and Creation: Raoul Walsh’s Cinema of the Individual 223
  63. A Love That Caresses the Soul: Films by Carl Theodor Dreyer 228
  64. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 234
  65. Le Silence de la mer and Bob le Flambeur 238
  66. The Leopard 242
  67. Hitch’s Riddle: On Five Rereleased Films 247
  68. Once Upon a Time in the West 264
  69. Sergio Leone 269
  70. Appendix: Top Ten Lists, 1974–86 275
  71. Index of Names 279
  72. Index of Titles 285
https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226429427-054

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part 1: The Best
  6. 1974: Le Petit théâtre de Jean Renoir 13
  7. 1976: Family Plot 16
  8. 1977: F for Fake 19
  9. 1978: Days of Heaven 23
  10. 1979: 10 28
  11. 1981: Melvin and Howard 35
  12. 1982: The Aviator’s Wife 40
  13. 1983: Francisca 44
  14. Part 2: The End of Classical Hollywood
  15. CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD
  16. The Man Who Would Be King 52
  17. Fedora 55
  18. Escape From Alcatraz 58
  19. The Human Factor 61
  20. NEW HOLLYWOOD
  21. The Driver 67
  22. Halloween 72
  23. Reds 75
  24. Sudden Impact 79
  25. NEW DIRECTIONS IN COMEDY
  26. Victor/Victoria 85
  27. Risky Business 91
  28. Lost in America 95
  29. After Hours 100
  30. MAVERICKS AND OUTSIDERS
  31. Dawn of the Dead 106
  32. The Big Red One 112
  33. Love Streams 116
  34. Trouble in Mind 122
  35. Part 3: Other Visions
  36. OLD MASTERS
  37. Blaise Pascal 130
  38. A Piece of Pleasure 132
  39. That Obscure Object of Desire 135
  40. Perceval 139
  41. GODARD
  42. Numéro deux 144
  43. Every Man for Himself 149
  44. Passion 154
  45. Detective 158
  46. NEW MASTERS
  47. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 163
  48. The Memory of Justice 167
  49. Allegro non troppo 171
  50. The American Friend 174
  51. Loulou 178
  52. Eijanaika 182
  53. Coup de torchon 186
  54. City of Pirates 190
  55. Part 4: Revivals and Retrospectives
  56. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 197
  57. The Flowers of St. Francis 201
  58. Born in Germany, Raised in Hollywood: The Film Art of Fritz Lang 204
  59. Record of a Tenement Gentleman 210
  60. Peeping Tom 214
  61. Othello 219
  62. Crisis, Compulsion, and Creation: Raoul Walsh’s Cinema of the Individual 223
  63. A Love That Caresses the Soul: Films by Carl Theodor Dreyer 228
  64. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 234
  65. Le Silence de la mer and Bob le Flambeur 238
  66. The Leopard 242
  67. Hitch’s Riddle: On Five Rereleased Films 247
  68. Once Upon a Time in the West 264
  69. Sergio Leone 269
  70. Appendix: Top Ten Lists, 1974–86 275
  71. Index of Names 279
  72. Index of Titles 285
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