From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal
Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
"I dare anyone to squeeze between
two covers a more varied, useful and
flat out entertaining sampling of
the personalities that make the
seventh art the liveliest."
— David Hudson, IFC.com
— David Hudson, IFC.com
C. Jerry Kutner
Los Angeles, California, USA
C. Jerry Kutner is a frequent contributor to Bright Lights Film Journal. Visit his website at home.earthlink.net/~cjk5.
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November 2007)
"As the twig is bent, so grows the tree."
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"Look at yourself," she says, "that's not who you are anymore."
» Beyond the Golden Age: Film Noir Since the 'Fifties (BLFJ 54
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"There is Only Noir!"
» Decadence AIP Style: De Sade (BLFJ 32
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"No actual fucking!" as Mr. Kutner says, but there are plenty of other pleasures in this lurid '60s rarity whose authorship remains contested
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"Yeller, you've been so good to the family but you're sick now so we're gonna blow your damn brains out!"
» Bernard Herrmann's "The Twilight Zone" on CD (BLFJ 27
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January 2000)
Serling's groundbreaking series was also a warm haven for Hollywood's greatest composer
» Albert Zugsmith's Opium Dreams (BLFJ 20
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Can one man's brain contain Written on the Wind, The Incredible Shrinking Man, LSD, I Hate You!, and Confessions of an Opium Eater? If the man is Albert Zugsmith it could.
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Raoul Walsh's powerful 1958 film about World War II
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