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| Introduction | |
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| From A Death in the Family | |
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| "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" | |
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| From The Bachelor of Arts | |
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| "The Wizard of Oz" | |
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| From Another Day of Life | |
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| From The Moviegoer | |
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| From Moving Places | |
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| From The Last Picture Show | |
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| From The Phantom Empire | |
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| Rudolph Valentino | |
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| Greta Garbo | |
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| "They Can't Take That Away from Me" | |
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| From W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes | |
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| From The Road to Hollywood | |
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| From By Myself | |
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| "Bogie in Excelsis" | |
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| From Suspects | |
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| James Dean | |
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| From The Films of My Life | |
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| "Ava: Life in the Afternoon" | |
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| From Selected Letters | |
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| "John Wayne: A Love Song" | |
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| "Loverboy of the Bourgeoisie" | |
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| "Setsuko Hara" | |
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| "Suzie Creamcheese Speaks" | |
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| "A Beautiful Child" | |
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| From Notes | |
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| "Lee Marvin" | |
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| From Kinski Uncut | |
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| John Belushi | |
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| "The Wahoo Boy" | |
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| "The Island of Hollywood" | |
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| From Flying through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants | |
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| From Step Right Up | |
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| From Picture | |
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| From Get Shorty | |
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| From The Player | |
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| From Wannabe | |
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| "Mae West" | |
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| From Hollywood Babylon | |
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| "The Awful Fate of the Sex Goddess" | |
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| "Blue Notes" | |
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| "Last Tango in Paris" | |
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| "Tango, Last Tango" | |
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| From The Godfather | |
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| "Edison's Vitascope Cheered" | |
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| "The Great Train Robbery" | |
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| Lumiere | |
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| A Conversation on Film with Leo Tolstoy | |
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| "The Nickelodeons" | |
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| "The Photoplay of Action" | |
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| From My Autobiography | |
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| John Bunny | |
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| "Pabst and Lulu" | |
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| Mary Pickford | |
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| Gloria Swanson | |
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| "Keaton at Venice" | |
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| "I'm Sorry I Made Me Cry" | |
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| "Minnie and Mickey" | |
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| "The Western: or the American Film par Excellence" | |
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| "The Gangster as Tragic Hero" | |
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| "Underground Films" | |
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| "The Imagination of Disaster" | |
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| "Libby 'Noir'" | |
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| From My Last Sigh | |
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| From The Magic Lantern | |
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| "My Own Methods" | |
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| From A Life in Movies | |
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| From Run-through | |
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| From Preston Sturges on Preston Sturges | |
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| "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" | |
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| From An Open Book | |
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| From My Life and My Films | |
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| From Something Like an Autobiography | |
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| Stanley Kubrick | |
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| "A Long Time on the Little Road" | |
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| From Fellini on Fellini | |
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| From One Man Tango | |
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| Mel Brooks | |
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| From POPism | |
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| From Sculpting in Time | |
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| From Scorsese on Scorsese | |
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| From Do the Right Thing | |
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| "Frequently Asked Questions about Quentin Tarantino" | |
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| From A Child of the Century | |
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| "Who Makes the Movies?" | |
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| From Prater Violet | |
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| From Selected Letters | |
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| From Hollywood | |
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| "Memories of a Film Critic" | |
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| From On Movies | |
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| From Confessions of a Cultist | |
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| "Why I'm Not Bored" | |
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| From How to Go to the Movies | |
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| "Matters of Photogenics" | |
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| "Movie Boners" | |
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| From The Strongman | |
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| From Behind the Scenes of "Psycho" | |
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| "The Laws of Cartoon Motion" | |
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| From Something Like an Autobiography | |
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| From On Directing Film | |
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| "Crazy Sunday" | |
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| "The Movie People" | |
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| "If You Want to Make Movies ..." | |
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| From Hollywood | |
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| From What Makes Sammy Run? | |
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| From As Time Goes By | |
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| From The Day of the Locust | |
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| From The Memoirs of an Amnesiac | |
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| From The Groucho Letters | |
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| From You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again | |
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| From Children of Light | |
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| "Tour of L.A." | |
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| "The Greatest Films of All Time" (Sight and Sound) | |
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| Acknowledgments | |