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Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.
Journalist and filmmaker Bill Krohn has been the Los Angeles correspondent for the French magazine Cahiers du cinéma for over forty years. Letters from Hollywood brings together thirty-four of his essays, many of them appearing in English for the first time. Focusing most pieces on a particular director and film, Krohn uses his inside knowledge of the studio system to illuminate an art that is also a multibillion-dollar business. He connects currents in French film criticism and theory with an unfolding account of American cinema past and present, offering penetrating insights into directors and their work. Beginning with Allan Dwan, who learned how to make movies before Hollywood was born by watching D. W. Griffith, Krohn presents a panorama that encompasses Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and Sergio Leone, Star Wars and I Love Lucy. He covers everything from gangsters to gremlins, from blockbusters to no-budget cult films like Moon Over Harlem and Plan 9 from Outer Space, in a style that is accessible to anyone who loves movies, or has a passion for writing about them.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. How I Became the Los Angeles Correspondent for Cahiers du cinema
2. On Daney (1977)
3. Serge Daney (1944-1992)
Directors Who Started in Silents
4. Allan Dwan: The Cliff and the Flume
5. Raoul Walsh: Objective, Burma!
6. Haunted Hollywood: 1979
7. John Ford: December 7: The Movie
8. Hawks at Work: The Making of Land of the Pharaohs
9. Alfred Hitchcock: Shelling the Lifeboat
10. Alfred Hitchcock: Dark Carnival
Directors Who Started in Talkies
11. "All This Is So": Orson Welles's Shakespeare Films
12. Ulmer without Tears
13. Phil Karlson Confidential
14. Nicholas Ray: We Can't Go Home Again
15. Robert Aldrich: Sodom and Gomorrah
16. Blake Edwards: Skin Deep
17. Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in America
Directors Who Started in Television
18. Lucille Ball: I Love Lucy
19. Le Cas Wood
20. Robert Altman: Prêt-à-Porter
21. Stanley Kubrick: Full Metal Jacket
22. John Frankenheimer: Jonah
23. Monte Hellman: Iguana
24. Monte Hellman Today
Directors Who Counterattacked
25. Woody Allen: Zelig
26. William Friedkin: Cruising
27. Francis Ford Coppola: Peggy Sue Got Married
28. Richard Brooks: In Cold Blood
29. Star Wars: Reversing the Signs
30. Dante's Inferno
31. John Landis: The Stupids
32. Ang Lee: The Ice Storm
33. Tim Burton: Ed Wood
34. David O. Russell: Flirting with Disaster
Index
