Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: KT.FG Kehr / College 5a - Szene / Sammlung Duffek	Status: Entliehen	Frist: 27.05.2024	Vorbestellungen: 0

If you have ever wanted to dig around in the archives for that perfect Sunday afternoon DVD and first turned to a witty weekly column in the New York Times, then you are already familiar with one of our nation's premier film critics. If you love movies and the writers who engage them and just happen to have followed two of the highest circulating daily papers in the country, then you probably recognize the name of the intellectually dazzling writer who has been penning pieces on American and foreign films for over thirty years. And if you called the City of the Big Shoulders home in the 1970s or 1980s and relied on those trenchant, incisive reviews from the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Tribune to guide your moviegoing delight, then you know Dave Kehr.

"When movies mattered" presents a wide-ranging and illuminating selection of Kehr's criticism from the Reader most of which is reprinted here for the first time including insightful discussions of film history and his controversial Top Ten lists. Long heralded by his peers for both his deep knowledge and incisive style, Kehr developed his approach to writing about film from the auteur criticism popular in the 70s. Though Kehr's criticism has never lost its intellectual edge, it's still easily accessible to anyone who truly cares about movies. Never watered down and always razor sharp, it goes beyond wry observations to an acute examination of the particular stylistic qualities that define the work of individual directors and determine the meaning of individual films.

From current releases to important revivals, from classical Hollywood to foreign fare, Kehr has kept us spellbound with his insightful critical commentaries. When Movies Mattered will secure his place among our very best writers about all things cinematic. (Verlagstext) ***** / ***** Acknowledgments / Introduction / Part 1: The Best / 1974: Le Petit théâtre de Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir) / 1976: Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock) / 1977: F for Fake (Orson Welles) / 1978: Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick) / 1979: 10 (Blake Edwards) / 1981: Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme) / 1982: The Aviator¿s Wife (Eric Rohmer) / 1983: Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira) / Part 2: The End of Classical Hollywood / Classical Hollywood / The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston) / Fedora (Billy Wilder) / Escape From Alcatraz (Don Siegel) / The Human Factor (Otto Preminger) / New Hollywood / The Driver (Walter Hill) / Halloween (John Carpenter) / Reds (Warren Beatty) / Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood) / New Directions in Comedy / Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards) / Risky Business (Paul Brickman) / Lost in America (Albert Brooks) / After Hours (Martin Scorsese) / Mavericks and Outsiders / Dawn of the Dead (George Romero) / The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller) / Love Streams (John Cassavetes) / Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph) / Part 3: Other Visions / Old Masters / Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rossellini) / A Piece of Pleasure (Claude Chabrol) / That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel) / Perceval (Eric Rohmer) / Godard / Numéro deuxm / Every Man for Himself / Passion / Detective / New Masters / Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner) / The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophuls) / Allegro non troppo (Bruno Bozzetto) / The American Friend (Wim Wenders) / Loulou (Maurice Pialat) / Eijanaika (Shohei Imamura) / Coup de torchon (Bertrand Tavernier)

City of Pirates (Raul Ruiz) / Part 4: Revivals and Retrospectives / The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi) / The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)

Born in Germany, Raised in Hollywood: The Film Art of Fritz Lang / Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu) / Peeping Tom (Michael Powell) / Othello (Orson Welles)

Crisis, Compulsion, and Creation: Raoul Walsh¿s Cinema of the Individual / A Love That Caresses the Soul: Films by Carl Theodor Dreyer / When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse) / Le Silence de la mer and Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville) / The Leopard (Luchino Visconti) / Hitch¿s Riddle: On Five Rereleased Films / Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone) / French Cancan (Jean Renoir) / Appendix: Top Ten Lists, 1974¿86