Take One (Mar-Apr 1970)

directors all receive their due at his hands. Happiest of all, we're treated to goodly helpings of his justly famous “Coffee, Brandy and Cigars’, a treasure store of little known facts and reflections. Some of it may be a little récherché, but that’s your loss, buddy. Two minor irritations, however, there’s no index, and this makes for enormous frustration in tracing some fascinating nugget of information. Also a bit of tighter editing should have removed a few minor repetitions, but | suppose we can forgive that fault, if it is one, when listening to such a master. “A totally fascinating raconteur’, says the blurb, quoting an earlier review from this journal. Repeat that in spades. Roger Corman: The Millennic Vision, edited by David Will and Paul Willemen (Cinema Magazine, 10 Greek St., London, W. 1, 15 shillings or $2.00) has the honour of being the first book on this most prolific director. | regret that some of my favorite Corman films are not dealt with at all, but then the aim of the work is hardly to be the definitive word on such a complex and diverse body of work. As such, recommended as a valuable introduction. Good, but incomplete filmography. The Praeger Film Library has now caught up with its British counter-part Studio Vista Movie Paperbacks and | hope we can now rely on simultaneous release of new titles. Certainly it’s about time The Films of Jean-Luc Godard was generally available here, and better yet in an updated version. It’s a splendid collection of international comment. in CINEVISION Much of the same holds true for The Films of Robert Bresson, which adds a chapter on Une femme douce lacking in the original English edition, and _ includes Bazin’s seminal essay on Diary of a Country Priest. Robin Wood’s excellent Arthur Penn also benefits with the addition of a section on Alice’s Restaurant, and _ in-production material on Little Big Man. A short section on the editing problems Penn, has encountered on some of his films adds several fascinating points. The other two titles, Lindsay Anderson by Elizabeth Sussex, and Second Wave; Newer than New Wave Names in World Cinema, contain material better found in magazine format. True, Second Wave has good sections on Oshima, Skolimowski and Makavejev, but several others, including Canadians Groulx and Lefebvre are very inadequately dealt with. ($4.95 and $2.50 except Godard:$5.95 and $2.95; Anderson: $1.95) Zwemmer/Barnes (In Canada: Smithers Bonellie) have already re-issued three titles in their International Film Guide series in expanded versions. Peter Cowie’s Sweden devotes its first volume to Swedish cinema, with meticulous cross-indexing and entries on the more noteworthy films. Unique, in English at least. Volume Two updates the author’s earlier Swedish Cinema ‘and remains important for its coverage of Bergman. Excellent publishing concept, well executed. (18 shillings; $3.50; $4.50) Roy Armes’ two volume survey of major French directors since Cinema, 1946, French remains a concise, immensely useful guide in its revised appearance. Exemplary bibliographies. Both Ivan Butler’s Horror in the Cinema (revised ed.) and John Baxter's Science Fiction in the Cinema offer competent surveys of their specialized fields, though Baxter offers a more imaginative approach. (Above 4 titles: 15 shillings; $2.95; $3.95) Citadel (McLeod in Canada, $4.50) has issued two of its earlier titles in paper. The Films of Bette Davis by Gene Ringgold lacks character identifications in its cast lists, while Clifford McCarty’s Bogey; The Films of Humphrey Bogart remains the touchstone this series should always attain to. The Films of Errol Flynn by Tony Thomas, Rudy Behlmer and Clifford McCarty sets a different standard of excellence in the series. Unique biographical material alternates with the coverage of the films, presenting a far more in-depth view of the man and his work. One gathers this approach had to be fought for and that much of the biographical section was severely cut—be thankful for what’s there. Gary Carey’s Lost Films is a treasure of visual delights—beautifully reproduced stills from thirty lost films of the twenties. 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