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by David Thomson


  Bing, Herman

  Binoche, Juliette

  Biograph

  Birds, The (1963)

  Birth (2004)

  Birth of a Nation, The (1915)

  Bitsch, Charles

  Bitter Rice (1948)

  Bitter Tea of General Yen, The (1933)

  Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The (1972)

  Bitter Victory (1957)

  Bitzer, Billy

  Black Hawk Down (2001)

  Black Legion (1937)

  Blackmail (1929)

  Black Narcissus (1947)

  Black Sheep of Whitehall, The (1942)

  Black Shield of Falworth, The (1954)

  Black Stallion, The (1979)

  Blair, Betsy

  Blair Witch Project, The (1999)

  Blane, Ralph

  Blauner, Steve

  Blind Date (1959)

  Blithe Spirit (1945)

  blockbusters

  Blonde (Oates)

  Blonde Venus (1932)

  Blow-Up (1966)

  Blue Angel, The (Der Blaue Engel) (1930)

  Bluebeard (1902)

  Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)

  Blue Light, The (1932)

  Blue Movie (1969)

  Blue Velvet (1986)

  Bluhdorn, Charles

  Boardman, Eleanor

  Boardwalk Empire (TV series)

  Bob le Flambeur (1956)

  Bochco, Steven

  Bock, Audie

  Body Double (1984)

  Bogarde, Dirk

  Bogart, Humphrey “Bogie”

  Bogdanovich, Peter

  Bohème, La (1926)

  Boleslawski, Richard

  Bolshoi Theatre

  Bonanza (TV series)

  Bond, Edward

  Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

  Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

  Boorman, John

  Booth, John Wilkes

  Borde, Raymond

  Borges, Jorge Luis

  Borgnine, Ernest

  Born Yesterday (1950)

  Bosé, Lucia

  Bottoms, Timothy

  Boudu Sauvé des Eaux (1932)

  Bouquet, Carole

  Bow, Clara

  Boxcar Bertha (1972)

  Box Office Attraction Company

  Boy with Green Hair, The (1948)

  B pictures

  Bracco, Lorraine

  Brackett, Charles

  Brackett, Leigh

  Bradbury, Ray

  Braddon, Russell

  Bradshaw, Peter

  Brady, Ian

  Branagh, Kenneth

  Brando, Marlon

  Brandwashed (Lindstrom, M.)

  Brasseur, Pierre

  Braunberger, Pierre

  Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

  Breaking the Waves (1996)

  Breathless (1960)

  Brecht, Bertolt

  Brennan, Walter

  Bresson, Robert

  Brideshead Revisited (1981)

  Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)

  Bridges, Jeff

  Bridge Too Far, A (1977)

  Brief Encounter (1945)

  Brigadoon (1954)

  Bringing Up Baby (1938)

  British cinema

  British Film Institute

  Britten, Benjamin

  Broadbent, Jim

  Broadway Melody, The (1929)

  Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)

  Broccoli, Cubby

  Brody, Richard

  Bronowski, Jacob

  Bronson, Charles

  Brook, Clive

  Brooks, Louise

  Brooks, Mel

  Brown, David

  Brown, Joe E.

  Brown, Kay

  Brown, Pamela

  Browning, Tod

  Brownlow, Kevin

  Bruckheimer, Jerry

  Brussels World’s Fair (1958)

  Bryan, John

  Brynner, Yul

  Buchan, John

  Bucket of Blood, A (1959)

  Buckley, William F.

  Buffett, Warren

  Bugsy (1991)

  Bujold, Geneviève

  Bulgakov, Mikhail

  Bullitt (1968)

  Buñuel, Luis

  Burel, Léonce-Henri

  Burgess, Anthony

  Burns, George

  Burns, Ken

  Burr, Raymond

  Burton, Richard

  Buscemi, Steve

  Bush, Prescott

  Bus Stop (1956)

  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

  Byron, Kathleen

  Caan, James

  Cabaret (1972)

  Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1919)

  Cabiria (1914)

  Cable Guy, The (1996)

  cable television

  Cabot, Bruce

  Caccia Tragica (1947)

  Caesar, Sid

  Cagney, James

  Cahiers du Cinéma

  Cain, James M.

  Caine Mutiny, The (1954)

  Calamai, Clara

  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (video game)

  camera angles

  caméra stylo

  Camerini, Mario

  Cameron, Ian

  Cameron, James

  Camille (1936)

  Camino Real (Williams, T.)

  Campbell, Joseph

  Canadian Film Board

  Canby, Vincent

  Cannes Film Festival

  Canonero, Milena

  Canterbury Tale, A (1944)

  Canterbury Tales, The (1972)

  Cantor, Eddie

  Capa, Robert

  Capablanca, José Raúl

  Cape Fear (1991)

  Capra, Frank

  Carabiniers, Les (1963)

  Carbine Williams (1952)

  Cardiff, Jack

  Carefree (1938)

  Carey, Harry

  Carey, Joyce

  Carmichael, Hoagy

  Carnal Knowledge (1971)

  Carné, Marcel

  Carousel (1945)

  Carrey, Jim

  Carrie (1976)

  Carrière, Jean-Claude

  Carroll, Bob, Jr.

  Carrosse d’Or, Le (1952)

  Carson, Jack

  Carson, Johnny

  Cartier-Bresson, Henri

  Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)

  Carver, Raymond

  Casablanca (1942)

  Casares, María

  Casino (1995)

  Casino Royale (Fleming, I.)

  Cassavetes, John

  Castel, Lou

  Cate, Jerry

  Catherine (1924)

  Cathy Come Home (1966)

  Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)

  Caught (1949)

  Cavalcanti, Alberto

  Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

  Cavett, Dick

  Cazale, John

  CBS (Columbia Broadcasting Company)

  CBS Radio

  Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

  Céline et Julie Vont en Bateau (1974)

  Cendrars, Blaise

  censorship

  Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

  Century of the Self, The (2002)

  Cervantes, Miguel de

  Chabrol, Claude

  Chair, The (1963)

  Champ, The (1931)

  Champlin, Charles

  Chandler, Raymond

  Chanel, Coco

  Chaney, Lon

  Chaplin, Charlie

  Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon

  Charge of the Light Brigade, The (1936)

  Charisse, Cyd

  Charlie’s Angels (TV series)

  Charlotte et Son Jules (1958)

  Charmed Lives (Korda, M.)

  Chase, Borden

  Chase, David

  Chase, Mary

  Chatelain, Hélène

  Chatman, Seymour

  Chaumeton, Étienne

  Chayefsky, Padd
y

  Che (2008)

  Cheat, The (1915)

  Cheers (TV series)

  Chekhov, Anton

  Cherchi Usai, Paolo

  Cherkasov, Nikolai

  Chess Fever (1925)

  Chickamatsu Monogatari (1954)

  Chico Hamilton Quintet

  Chienne, La (1931)

  child killers

  Children Are Watching Us, The (I Bambini Ci Guardano) (1944)

  Chimes at Midnight (1965)

  Chinatown (1974)

  Chinoise, La (1967)

  Christakis, Dimitri

  Christie, Julie

  Churchill, Winston

  Chytilová, Vera

  Cimino, Michael

  Cinecittà studio

  “Cinema, The” (Woolf)

  CinemaScope

  Cinémathèque Française

  “Cinematic Principle and the Ideogram, The” (Eisenstein)

  Circus, The (1928)

  Citizen Cohn (1992)

  Citizen Kane (1941)

  City Girl (Our Daily Bread) (1930)

  City Lights (1931)

  City on Fire (1987)

  Civilisation (1969)

  Clair, René

  Claire’s Knee (1970)

  Clansman, The (1915)

  Clansman, The (Dixon)

  Clark, Colin

  Clark, Kenneth

  Clark, Petula

  Clarke, Alan

  Clarke, Mae

  Clayburgh, Jill

  Clément, René

  Cleopatra (1963)

  Clift, Montgomery

  Cloak and Dagger (1946)

  Clock, The (1945)

  Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

  Clooney, George

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

  Closely Watched Trains (1966)

  Clune’s Auditorium

  Cobb, Lee J.

  Cocteau, Jean

  Coen brothers

  Cogeval, Guy

  Cohen, Leonard

  Cohn, Harry

  Cohn, Joseph

  Colbert, Claudette

  Colditz Story, The (1955)

  Cold Mountain (2003)

  cold war era

  Collins, Ray

  Colman, Ronald

  Colt .45 (1950)

  Columbia Pictures

  Comden, Betty

  concentration camps

  Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

  Confessions of Winifred Wagner, The (1978)

  Conformist, The (1970)

  Connery, Sean

  Conrad, Joseph

  Conspiracy (2001)

  Constantine, Eddie

  contract stars

  Conversation, The (1974)

  Coogan, Jackie

  Cooke, Alistair

  Cooper, Gary

  Cooper, Maxine

  Cooper, Miriam

  Coppola, August

  Coppola, Carmine

  Coppola, Eleanor

  Coppola, Francis Ford

  Coppola, Sofia

  copyright

  Corda, María (María Antonia Farkas)

  Corman, Roger

  Corner in Wheat, A (1909)

  Cortázar, Julio

  Cortez, Ricardo

  Cortez, Stanley

  Corvette K-225 (1943)

  Cosgrove, Jack

  Costa-Gavras

  Costello, Dolores

  Costello, Lou

  Cotten, Joseph

  Coulouris, George

  Coulter, John

  Coup du Berger, Le (1956)

  Courtenay, Tom

  Cousins, Les (1959)

  Coutard, Raoul

  Coward, Noel

  Crawford, Cheryl

  Crawford, Joan

  Cries and Whispers (1972)

  Crime de Monsieur Lange, Le (1935)

  Criminal, The (1960)

  Criminal Code, The (1931)

  Crisis (1946)

  Crisp, Donald

  Criss Cross (1949)

  Criterion

  Cronaca di un Amore (1950)

  Cronenberg, David

  Cronkite, Walter

  Crosby, Bing

  cross-cutting

  Crossfire (1947)

  Crowd, The (1928)

  Crown Film Unit (GPO Film Unit)

  Crowther, Bosley

  Cruel Sea, The (1953)

  Cruise, Tom

  Cukor, George

  Cul-de-Sac (1966)

  Curb Your Enthusiasm (TV series)

  Currie, Finlay

  Curtis, Adam

  Curtis, Tony

  Curtiz, Michael

  Cutter’s Way (1981)

  Czechoslovakia

  Dahlbeck, Eva

  Daisies (1966)

  Daktari (TV series)

  Dalí, Salvador

  Dalio, Marcel

  Dalser, Ida

  Damage (1992)

  Dam Busters, The (1955)

  Dames du Bois du Boulogne, Les (1945)

  Damiano, Gerard

  Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

  Dancer in the Dark (2000)

  Dancing Lady (1933)

  Danes, Claire

  Dankworth, Johnny

  Danner, Blythe

  d’Annunzio, Gabriellino

  Dark Victory (1939)

  Darling (1965)

  Darò un Millione (1935)

  Dartmouth College

  Dasté, Jean

  David, Larry

  Davies, Marion

  Davies, Terence

  Davis, Bette

  Davis, Carl

  Davis, Miles

  Day, Doris

  Day for Night (1973)

  Day-Lewis, Daniel

  Day of the Locust, The (West, N.)

  Days of Heaven (1978)

  Dead Ringers (1988)

  Deadwood (TV series)

  Dean, Basil

  Dean, James

  Dearden, Basil

  Death in Venice (1971)

  Death of a Salesman (Miller)

  Death of Cinema, The (Cherchi Usai)

  d’Eaubonne, Jean

  de Beauregard, Georges

  de Broca, Philippe

  Decaë, Henri

  Decameron, The (1971)

  December 7th (1943)

  Decla

  Deep Blue Sea, The (Rattigan)

  Deep Throat (1972)

  Deer Hunter, The (1978)

  Deer Park, The (Mailer)

  Defenders, The (TV series)

  de Laurentiis, Dino

  Delerue, Georges

  DeLillo, Don

  Deliverance (1972)

  Delon, Alain

  Delteil, Joseph

  Dementia 13 (1963)

  DeMille, Cecil B.

  de Mille, William

  Deneuve, Catherine

  De Niro, Robert

  Denishawn Dancers

  Denning, Richard

  De Palma, Brian

  Departed, The (2006)

  Dern, Bruce

  Dern, Laura

  de Santis, Giuseppe

  De Sica, Vittorio

  Desilu

  Destry Rides Again (1939)

  Detour (1945)

  Devil in the Flesh (1986)

  Devil Is a Woman, The (1935)

  De Vries, Gerard

  Dexter (TV series)

  “Dialectic Approach to Film Form, A” (Eisenstein)

  Dial M for Murder (1954)

  Diamond, I. A. L.

  Diamonds of the Night (1964)

  Diana, Princess of Wales

  Diary for Timothy, A (1944–45)

  Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

  DiCaprio, Leonardo

  Dickens, Charles

  Dickey, James

  Dickinson, Angie

  Dick Van Dyke Show, The (TV series)

  Diderot

  Didion, Joan

  Die Hard

  series

  Dietrich, Marlene

  digital pro
jection

  Digue, La (1911)

  DiMaggio, Joe

  Dinesen, Isak

  Di Palma, Carlo

  directing, directors

  Directors Guild

  Dirty Dozen, The (1967)

  Dirty Harry (1971)

  Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (1972)

  Dishonored (1931)

  Disney (The Walt Disney Company)

  Disney, Walt

  divorce

  Dixon, Thomas

  Döblin, Alexander

  Doctor Dolittle (1967)

  Doctor in the House

  Doctorow, E. L.

  Doctor Zhivago (1965)

  documentaries

  Dogme 95

  Dogville (2003)

  Dolce Vita, La (1960)

  Dollars trilogy

  Doll’s House, A (Ibsen)

  Domarchi, Jean

  Donat, Robert

  Donen, Stanley

  Doniol-Valcroze, Jacques

  Donner Party

  Don’t Change Your Husband (1919)

  Don’t Look Now (1973)

  doppelgänger

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  Double Indemnity (1944)

  Douglas, Kirk

  Douglas, Michael

  Dovzhenko, Alexander

  Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

  Downton Abbey (TV series)

  Down to the Bone (2004)

  Dracula (1931)

  Drake, Charles

  DreamWorks

  Dreiser, Theodore

  Dressed to Kill (1980)

  Dressler, Marie

  Drew, Robert

  Dreyer, Carl

  Dreyfuss, Richard

  Drifters (1929)

  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

  Dr. Kildare (TV series)

  Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922)

  Dr. No (1962)

  Dr. Strangelove (1964)

  Dru, Joanne

  dubbing

  Dubliners (Joyce)

  Duel (1971)

  Duel in the Sun (1946)

  Duhamel, Antoine

  Du Maurier, Daphne

  Dunaway, Faye

  Dunbar, Andrea

  Dunbar, Lorraine

  Dune (1984)

  Dunst, Kirsten

  Duras, Marguerite

  Duryea, Dan

  Dutch (Morris)

  Duvall, Robert

  Dvorak, Ann

  Dyall, Valentine

  Dyer, Geoff

  Dykstra, John

  Dynasty (TV series)

  Eakins, Thomas

  Ealing Studios

  Earp, Wyatt

  Easter Parade (1948)

  Eastman, Carole

  East of Eden (1955)

  Eastwood, Clint

  Easy Living (1949)

  Easy Rider (1969)

  Easy Virtue (1928)

  Ebert, Roger

  Eclisse, L’ (1962)

  Ecstasy (1933)

  Eddy, Nelson

  Edelstein, David

  Edens, Roger

  Edge of the World, The (1937)

  Edison, Thomas

  Ed Sullivan Show, The (TV series)

  Edwards, Blake

  Egoyan, Atom

  8½ (1963)

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenstein, Sergei M.

  Eisner, Lotte H.

  Ekerot, Bengt

  Eldridge, Florence

  Element of Crime, The (1984)

  Elephant Boy (1936)

  Elephant Man, The (1980)

  Elevator to the Scaffold (1958)

  Elia Kazan: A Life (Kazan, E.)

  Eliot, George

  Ellington, Duke

  Ellison, Larry

  Ellroy, James

  Eloise (Thompson, K.)

 

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