
Published: 1962; 100 pages
Editor-in-Chief and Publisher: Jonas Mekas. Editors: Louis Brigante, George N. Fenin, Edouard de Laurot, Adolfas Mekas, Andrew Sarris, Gilbert Seldes, P. Adams Sitney, David C. Stone.
Copyright, 1962 by Film Culture. Printed in the U.S.A. The opinions expressed by the contributors do not necessarily represent those of the editors. Publishers’ Printing Representative: Harry Gantt. Distributed by Eastern News Distributors, Inc.
A NOTE TO OUR READERS: We have had Our Bad Times. Every issue of FC was our last issue. Every Spring was our last Spring. This Spring, however, is full of green buds. An angel has passed by. So, beginning with the current issue, FC will appear regularly, four times a year. We thank you for your patience and consistent support — and we bless the coming of Spring.
Cover Picture: Francois Truffaut shooting Jules et Jim.
Contents
1. To Maya Deren, Rudolf Arnheim
2. Fourth Independent Film Award
3. Notes on the New American Cinema, Jonas Mekas
4. The Deep-Frozen Eye of God, Richard Preston
5. Foundation for the Invention and Creation of Absurd Movies, Ron Rice
6. The Future of the New American Cinema, Edouard de Laurot
7. Glossary of the New American Cinema
8. Once More on the New Generation, Alexsander Karaganov
9. Rogosin and Documentary, Peter Davis
10. For Shadows, Against Pull My Daisy — An Argument, Parker Tyler
11. Three New Italian Film-makers, Louis Brigante
12. Ermanno Olmi, George Paul Solomos
13. Notes on Banditi a Orgosolo, Vittorio De Seta
14. Cinematic and Literary Stylistic Figures, Pier Paolo Pasolini
15. Making a Film Is My Way of Life, Michelangelo Antonioni
16. A Talk With Michelangelo Antonioni
17. The High Forties Revisited, Andrew Sarris
18. Coffee, Brandy & Cigars XXXVI, Herman G. Weinberg
19. On Viridiana, Luis Bunuel
20. Interview With Luis Bunuel, Kenji Kanesaka
21. Viridiana, Emilio G. Riera
22. La Notte and L’avventura, Guido Aristarco
23. A Note on Stan Brakhage, Donald Sutherland
24. Japanese Cinema 1961, M. Iwabutchi
25. Spoleto Film Exposition, 1961
26. International Film Festivals — 1962
27. Mar Del Plata Festival, Jonas Mekas
28. Province-and-Providential Letter, Stan Brakhage
29. If the Actor Is the Audience, Stan Vanderbeek
30. Books, Magazines Received
Index of Images
Signed photo of Maya Deren to Jonas Mekas
From The Flower Thief, directed by Ron Rice, with Taylor Mead (6 film stills)
Director of The Flower Thief: Ron Rice (4 portraits)
Stanley Brakhage (portrait)
At last: An ideal subject for Cinemascope (photo of over a dozen men carrying a long pole or pipe)
Michelangelo Antonioni shooting L’eclisse
Vittorio De Seta shooting Banditi a Orgosolo
Pier Paolo Pasolini shooting Accattone
Ermanno Olmi shooting Il Posto
Fritz Lang (portrait)
Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich on the set of The Scarlet Empress
Josef Von Sternberg shooting Anathan
Howard Hawks shooting Hatari! (Paramount) 27 films of Howard Hawks will be screened in a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, May 31 – Sept. 1. The program was arranged, and a special monograph written by Peter Bogdanovich.
The New American Cinema director, Harold Humes (Don Peyote), casts his second film. Photo: Gin Briggs (Note: Photo is of Humes being hauled off by two police officers)
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