The Movie Book

FEAR AND WONDER 119 her two children. Willa is to be the next hapless victim of his creepy yet all too smooth preacher act. Ligh ...

120 THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Powell uses his tattoos to tell a moralizing tale of love and hate, but Rachel Cooper can see right ...

FEAR AND WONDER 121 The widow Willa is won over by the phoney charm of the false preacher, who brings horror into her home. Horr ...

122 F rom A Star Is Born in 1937 to The Artist in 2011, the movie industry has exhibited a narcissistic obsession with itself. D ...

FEAR AND WONDER 123 What else to watch: The Jazz Singer (1927, p.330) ■ Top Hat (1935) ■ A Star Is Born (1937) ■ Anchors Aweigh ...

124 SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN viewer is shown a montage that contradicts his words. He is seen working his way up from rock bottom as ...

FEAR AND WONDER 125 Don is finally in his element as a song-and-dance man, not a silent movie star, as he performs the movie’s t ...

126 LET’S GO HOME TOKYO STORY / 1953 T okyo Story was made in the wake of the decades of militarism in Japan that culminated in ...

FEAR AND WONDER 127 What else to watch: Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941) ■ There Was a Father (1942) ■ The Flavor ...

128 What else to watch: Le Corbeau (1943) ■ Eyes Without a Face (1960) ■ Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (1964) ■ Duel (1971) H ...

FEAR AND WONDER 129 BUT IF WE DON’T USE YOUR DEVICE AGAINST GODZILLA WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? GODZILLA / 1954 G odzilla (Gojira ...

130 What else to watch: Written on the Wind (1956) ■ Imitation of Life (1959) ■ Seconds (1966) ■ Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, ...

FEAR AND WONDER 131 What else to watch: The Wild One (1953) ■ Bigger than Life (1956) ■ Easy Rider (1969, pp.196–97) ■ American ...

132 WHEN I’M BETTER WE’LL GO AND LOOK AT THE TRAINS AGAIN PATHER PANCHALI / 1955 P ather Panchali tells the story of Apu (Subir ...

FEAR AND WONDER 133 What else to watch: The Bicycle Thief (1948, pp.94–95) ■ Jalsaghar (1958) ■ The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) ■ C ...

134 What else to watch: The Maltese Falcon (1941, p.331) ■ Murder, My Sweet (1944) ■ The Big Sleep (1946) ■ Touch of Evil (1958, ...

FEAR AND WONDER 135 What else to watch: Stagecoach (1939) ■ Rio Bravo (1959) ■ The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) ■ Unforgive ...

136 T he Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) takes the form of a medieval morality play. A knight returns from the Crusades to fi ...

FEAR AND WONDER 137 What else to watch: Death Takes a Holiday (1934) ■ The Virgin Spring (1960) ■ Through a Glass Darkly (1961) ...

138 THE SEVENTH SEAL The knight searches, but he finds nothing. At one point he happens upon a girl (Maud Hansson) imprisoned in ...