Films

• About this book
• Chapter 1. Michael Curtiz (Mihály Kertész)
• Casablanca 1942
• Some love never dies
• The Resistance
• They all stand
• Play it again, Sam
• The beginning of a beautiful friendship
• Letters of transit
• Chapter 2. Ernst Lubitsch
• The Shop Around the Corner 1940
• Normal people
• Inner lives
• Common people
• To Be or Not to Be 1942
• Ridiculous ideology
• Uniforms and beards
• Suspension of disbelief
• Chapter 3. Josef von Sternberg
• Morocco 1930
• Heroes
• Contrasts
• She stands
• The score
• Dishonored 1931
• Agent X-27
• Chapter 4. Frank Capra
• It Happened One Night 1934
• Hobos on a train
• The walls of Jericho
• A shapely leg
• You Can’t Take It with You 1938
• The eccentric
• The wealthy
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
• What we believe in
• Respect for the institution
• Arsenic and Old Lace 1944
• Black comedy
• Chapter 5. Alfred Hitchcock
• Rear Window 1954
• Voyeur
• Grim
• Vertigo 1958
• Scottie
• First-person point of view
• Trauma
• North by Northwest 1959
• Accidental importance
• Crop dusting
• Chapter 6. George Cukor
• Holiday 1938
• Play
• How we decide
• It Should Happen to You 1954
• Fame
• Film
• My Fair Lady 1964
• Language
• Dubbing
• Chapter 7. William Wyler
• Roman Holiday 1953
• Aristocracy
• Profit and romance
• Mouth of Truth
• Chapter 8. Otto Preminger
• Laura 1944
• Nothing personal
• Dark motives
• The soundtrack
• Chapter 9. John Huston
• The Maltese Falcon 1941
• Wilmer, the “gunsel”
• Spade’s character
• The principle
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
• Lacking treasure
• Greed
• The African Queen 1951
• Missionary work
• Toleration
• Love in adversity
• Chapter 10. Billy Wilder
• Sunset Boulevard 1950
• Self-referential
• Delusional
• Film noir
• Some Like It Hot 1959
• Nobody suspects
• Keystone mafia
• Tango
• The Apartment 1960
• Consequences
• Getting ahead
• Chapter 11. David Lean
• Lawrence of Arabia 1962
• Epic
• Gone native
• Doctor Zhivago 1965
• Romance
• Twisted relationships
• Secret service
• Chapter 12. Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明)
• Rashōmon 羅生門 To Live 1950
• Point of view
• Fiction
• Ikiru 生きる To Live 1952
• Tragedy
• Life Is Brief
• What does great art teach us?
• Seven Samurai 七人の侍 1954
• The defenseless
• Hungry samurai
• Chapter 13. Ronald Neame
• The Horse’s Mouth 1958
• A higher calling
• Chapter 14. Alexander Mackendrick
• The Ladykillers 1955
• The stupidity
• Mrs. Wilberforce
• Insurance
• Chapter 15. Orson Welles
• Citizen Kane 1941
• Rosebud
• Yellow journalism
• Chapter 16. Ingmar Bergman
• The Seventh Seal Det sjunde inseglet 1957
• Disillusioned
• Silence of God
• Chess
• Danse Macabre
• Chapter 17. Satyajit Ray (সত্যজিৎ রায়)
• Mahanagar মহানগর The Big City 1935
• Only a woman
• Confidence
• Conditions
• The Apu Trilogy
• Pather Panchali পথের পাঁচালী Song of the Little Road 1955
• Lives
• Oh, the humanity!
• Aparajito অপরাজিত The Unvanquished 1956
• Mother and child
• The sacred river Ganges
• Apur Sansar অপুর সংসার The World of Apu 1959
• Fate
• Grief
• Winnowing
• Chapter 18. Blake Edwards
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s 1961
• An American
• Her brother, Fred
• Moon River
• Chapter 19. Stanley Donen
• Singin’ in the Rain 1952
• The talkies
• The song
• The dances
• Self-referential
• Charade 1963
• Charade
• Genre
• Older men
• Credits
• Chapter 20. Robert Mulligan
• To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
• No romance, no action
• Atticus loses the case
• Pieties