Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introductory Note xi
5. Part 1. From Chicago Magazine
6. The Black Stallion 3
7. Used Cars 6
8. Tess 9
9. Westerns 12
10. Disney Films 15
11. Budd Boetticher 18
12. The Mystery of Oberwald 22
13. The French “Tradition of Quality” 26
14. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock 30
15. Sequels 34
16. Jacques Rivette 37
17. Boat People 40
18. L’argent 43
19. A Sunday in the Country 47
20. Mikey and Nicky 51
21. The Coca-Cola Kid 55
22. Ran 58
23. Shoah 62
24. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 66
25. Home Video 69
26. Part 2. From the Top Ten (Reader)
27. Supervixens 75
28. Robin and Marian 78
29. Islands in the Stream 80
30. Moses and Aaron 85
31. Blue Collar 89
32. Luna 92
33. Atlantic City 96
34. Fanny and Alexander 100
35. The Legend of Tianyun Mountain 105
36. Pale Rider 109
37. Part 3. Favorites (Reader)
38. Twilight’s Last Gleaming 115
39. Movie Movie 118
40. Saint Jack 122
41. Nosferatu 127
42. Knife in the Head 131
43. Macbeth 135
44. The Woman Next Door 139
45. Lola 143
46. Valley Girl 147
47. Gremlins 151
48. Part 4. Autopsies/ Minority Reports
49. The Last Tycoon 159
50. A Wedding 162
51. Apocalypse Now 167
52. Kramer vs. Kramer 171
53. The Shining 174
54. Dressed to Kill 179
55. Raiders of the Lost Ark 185
56. A Passage to India 189
57. Hannah and Her Sisters 193
58. Salvador 197
59. Afterword 201
60. Appendix: Top Ten Lists, 1974–86 205
61. Index 209