Jonathan Zeitlin

FILM

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For doing The Missouri Breaks Marlon Brando, as bonkers bounty-hunter Robert E. Lee Clayton, finally got paid ($1.5 million, to

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I N DECEMBER 1972, Salvador Allende charged before the United Nations that the crisis of the beleaguered Chilean economy was

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The Great Dictator. Chaplin, it seems, can do nothing inconsequential. Even this, which many people don't find very funny, seems

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In the space of a couple of years during the early seventies, Peter Bohmer, a professor at San Diego State

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Touch of Evil is Orson Welles's darkest, most disturbing film. Shot in Venice, California after years of exile from Hollywood

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Chinatown. They'll make a mint showing this, and they deserve to. What seemed to be another cashing-in on the spate

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The Thin Man. If you haven't, you must. It's as tight as the book and moves with a drive which

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American films in the late 40s and early 50s were dominated by a style called film noir, as the optimistic

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D URING THE BOOM decades since World War II, millions of temporary workers have streamed into the industrial centers of

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American criticism in the twentieth century has been dominated by a tendency which treats literature as a self-referring activity cut