Index 287 Barrymore, Drew, 82, 90–91 Bass, Saul, 150 Battle of Brazil, <strong>The</strong> (book), 52 Beach, <strong>The</strong>, 25, 32–33, 34 Beatty, Warren, 41, 45, 46 Before Night Falls, 147 Bend It Like Beckham, 193, 194 Bergamin, Jose, 97 Bergman, Ingmar, 14, 175, 178, 179, 181, 182–184 Better Tomorrow, A, 212 Beverly Hills Cop III, 228 Bhaji on the Beach, 190 biographies, 44 Blue (Three Colors Trilogy), 157 B-movies, 267–268 Bogdanovich, Peter, 55–63, 167, 172, 173 Bollywood films, 188, 189–192 Bonnie and Clyde, 39–47 Boyle, Danny, 25–38 Boys Don’t Cry, 107, 108 Brando, Marlon, 35, 36, 213–214, 273–274 Brazil, 47–54 Breathless, 250 Bresson, Robert, 184 Brick, 13 Buba, Pasquale “Pat,” 262–263 budgets, 238 Bullet in the Head, 212, 216 Buñuel, Luis, 94–103, 133, 135, 139–141, 143 Burgess, Anthony, 67, 70–71, 72 Burton, Tim, 280 C Caan, James, 109 Cage, Nicholas, 203, 207–208 Canby, Vincent, 66, 206 Capra, Frank, 192, 194 Casino, 218 censorship, 135, 228 CG (computer-generated animation), 225–226 Chadha, Gurinder, 188–194 characters as cartoons, 208 loathsome protagonists, 199 romanticization of, 199–200 villains as heroes, 280, 282–283 Welles on, 270 Chasing Amy, 237 Chayefsky, Paddy, 165 Cheung, Jackie, 212 Chick, Austin, 123–131 children, working with, 171–172 cinema verité, 79, 111, 114–115, 119–121 Citizen Kane, 55–63, 156, 198, 272 Clash of the Titans, 224 Clerks, 235, 237 Clockwork Orange, A, 64–73 Clone High, 241, 243 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 241, 243–244 Cocks, Jay, 219 Coen brothers, 205, 206, 208 color symbolism, 262 comedy cinematographic techniques and, 242 horror-, 4–5 and tragedy, 165–166 without slapstick, 172–173 Condon, Bill, 39–47 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, 147 Confidentially Yours, 251 Conrad, Joseph, 26, 30 Coppola, Francis Ford Apocalypse Now cameo, 26 Apocalypse Now director, 25, 27, 30–32, 34–35, 37, 38 Godfather director, 104–109 Cornell, Joseph, 144
288 Index Coutard, Raoul, 257 Cowards Bend the Knee, 136 critics, roles of, 53 Crowther, Bosley, 44 Cukor, George, 144 D Dahl, John, 64–73 Daisy Miller, 170 Dalí, Salvador, 133, 135, 139, 140, 142–143 Dawn of the Dead, 261 Day for Night, 251 De Niro, Robert, 156, 158, 200, 216, 273–274 Dead Father, <strong>The</strong>, 142 Dean, James, 214–215 death during documentaries, 116–117 filmmakers and, 149 as theme, 149, 193 Desailly, Jean, 247, 257 Desperate Living, 280 dialogue creativity of, 234 overlapping, 62–63, 272 and meaning of scenes, 173–174 DiCaprio, Leonardo, 33 Dietrich, Marlene, 266, 277 direct address, 23–24 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 275 Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 97, 99, 102–103 Docter, Pete, 167–174 documentaries cinema verité and, 114–115, 119–121 dangerous situations during, 116 feature films filmed as, 162–163 filmmaker-subject relationships, 116–121 focus shifts, 115–116 Dogma, 237 Donny Darko, 52–53 Doors, the, 36 Dorléac, François, 257 dreamlike effects, 102, 143, 145, 146–147 duality, 31 Dunaway, Faye, 41, 45 Dunne, Griffin, 2, 4, 5, 10–11 Duplass, Jay, 202–209 Duplass, Mark, 203, 204, 205–206, 207 Duvall, Robert, 29 Duvall, Shelley, 15 Dynamation (animation technique), 225 E East of Eden, 214–215 Easy Rider, 41, 126, 130 Ebert, Roger, 53, 66 economic values, 53–54 Ed Wood, 225 editing, 269 Egoyan, Atom directorial aspirations, 178 eroticism, 181–182 film selection (see Persona) on filmmaking and audience media savvy, 185–186 filmography, 175 nudity search and film discoveries, 134 on state-funded filmmaking, 183–184 8 Femmes, 80 8½, 13, 17, 74–81, 104 8½ Women, 80 emotional verité, 79 Empire Strikes Back, <strong>The</strong>, 275 “End, <strong>The</strong>” (song), 36 Enron: <strong>The</strong> Smartest Guys in the Room, 101 eroticism, 180–182, 187, 264
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