Michael Levenson
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Elsewhere Over the Rainbow
H AVING MADE MY WAY through the 760 pages of Gravity's Rainbow, I am sorely tempted to say that you
Before the Revolution
The films of the Dziga-Vertov group are, in this sense, films of struggle. To begin to talk about them, you
Bad and Bored
I F NOTHING DRASTIC is done. Francois Truffaut will soon pass quietly into insignificance. And that is too bad--it was
Beyond the End of the End of the Road
C HIMERA is not Barth's best book. It is not really even close. But it is serious experimentation of a
New Wave, Old Wave
S O MANY PEOPLE have said so many nice things about La Salamandre, one more word of praise will doubtless
The Last Screwball Comedy Show
I BET Peter Bogdanovich lies in bed nights, dreaming of limousines and sunglasses and breasty starlets with thighs in their
Polanski's Macbeth
M ORE THAN Hamlet and more than Lear, Macbeth and the movies are made for each other. Of the great
Gimme Kubrick
W ITHOUT so much as a last gasp, the movies' New Romanticism has vanished as quickly as it came. Meanwhile,
King Lear
M arlowe's Dr. Faustus turned up on television this past summer with Richard Burton in the title role and Elizabeth
Hoa Binh
T here is inside war, and there is outside war. Most of us have watched Vietnam only from the outside--where