Table of Contents
Foreword Matt Zoller Seitz ix
Introduction Chaz Ebert xvii
Selections from the Introductions to the Previous Volumes xxi
25th Hour 3
A. I. Artificial Intelligence 7
An Autumn Afternoon 12
Badlands 16
The Ballad of Narayama 20
Barry Lyndon 23
The Big Lebowski 27
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 31
Caché 35
La Ceremonie 39
The Circus 43
La Collectionneuse 47
Come and See 51
Contact 55
Day for Night 59
Departures 62
Diary of a Country Priest 66
Diary of a Lost Girl 70
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 74
French Cancan 78
The Grey Zone 82
The Hairdresser's Husband 86
Harakiri 90
Heart of Glass 94
In a Lonely Place 98
Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II 102
The Killing 106
Leon Morin, Priest 110
Lost in Translation 114
Make Way for Tomorrow 118
A Man Escaped 122
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 126
Man with a Movie Camera 130
The Match Factory Girl 134
Mon oncle d'Amerique 138
Monsieur Hire 142
Mulholland Dr 146
Mystery Train 150
Night Moves 154
Nosferatu the Vampyre 158
The Only Son 162
Pale Flower 166
Pink Floyd: The Wall 170
The Pledge 174
Red Beard 178
Richard III 182
Rio Bravo 186
Senso 190
Seven 194
Shadow of a Doubt 198
Shoah 202
Smiles of a Summer Night 208
Souls for Sale 212
The Spirit of the Beehive 216
Spirited Away 219
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring 223
Stagecoach 227
Superman 232
Tender Mercies 236
Veronika Voss 240
Viridiana 244
Yellow Submarine 248