Table of Contents
Foreword /Jason Shinder --Introduction: Retracing older steps and new /Peter Bogdanovich --A box filled with magic /Martin Scorsese --The moviegoers : why don't people love the right movies anymore? /David Denby --A touch of the 1940s woman in the '90s /Molly Haskell --I fired Capra /Gore Vidal --I would toss myself aside : confessions of a Catholic film critic /Richard Alleva --Afterwards : the sweet smell of success /James Mangold --Moving pictures /Bruce Wagner --Mighty aphrodites /Terrence Rafferty --The glory of Cary Grant and other girlish delights /Elizabeth Abele --One good take : Frank Sinatra /Robert Horton --The color of war /Douglas Brinkley --Of guts and glory /Steven Spielberg --Eve's bayou : too good to be a "black" film? /Mia L. Mask --Yasujiro Ozu : the subtly observant eye /Phillip Lopate --Deliverance /John Brodie --'Touch of evil' retouched /Jonathan Rosenbaum --You ain't heard nothin' yet /Andrew Sarris --My stardust memories /William Zinsser --Oh, Kay! You're ok with me /Rex Reed --The devil beats his wife : small moments and big statements in the films of Charles Burnett /Cliff Thompson --Cruel to be kind /Chris Chang --Riskinesque : how Robert Riskin spoke through Frank Capra and vice versa /Joseph McBride --Leo McCarey and "family values" /Robin Wood --Nine great movies /Roger Ebert --The movie of the century /Geoffrey O'Brien.