American movie critics: an anthology from the silents until now

The photoplay of action ; The artistic position of Douglas Fairbanks and The thief of Bagdad production / Vachel Lindsay

The function of the photoplay / Hugo Münsterberg

The cabinet of Dr. Caligari ; Nanook of the north ; A woman of Paris ; Manhandled ; The temptress ; What price glory? / Carl Sandburg

The ten commandments ; Greed / Robert E. Sherwood

The new Chaplin comedy (The gold rush) / Edmund Wilson

from Appendix from Moronia : note on technic / H.L. Mencken

The passion of Joan of Arc / H.D.

The "talkies" / Alexander Bakshy

"A" in the art of the movie and kino ; Remarks of D.W. Griffith / Harry Alan Potamkin

from An hour with the movies and the talkies / Gilbert Seldes

Anna Christie ; Good art, good propaganda / Pare Lorentz

King Kong ; The invisible man / William Troy

Parachute jumper ; Hallelujah I'm a bum ; Ladies they talk about ; Our betters ; King Kong ; Night flight ; Camille ; The last of Mrs. Cheyney ; Personal property ; Another dawn ; A day at the races / Cecilia Ager

The devil is a woman ; The future of color / André Sennwald

The film critic of tomorrow / Rudolf Arnheim

Dancing in films / Lincoln Kierstein

The charge of the light brigade / Meyer Levin

It's up to the kiddies (Stand up and cheer) ;

Stars and garters (Belle of the nineties) ; Artist among the flickers (Three songs about Lenin) ; Arms and men (Lives of a Bengal lancer) ; Words and music (Broadway melody of 1936) ; In a dry month (Hands across the table) ; Cagney : great guy ; Through the looking glass (Stage door) ; Walt Disney's Grimm reality (Snow White and the seven dwarfs) ; Hitchcock in Hollywood (Foreign correspondent) ; For better, for worse (Time in the sun) ; Handsome is (High Sierra) ; Citizen Welles ; Welles and his wonders II / Otis Ferguson

Gone with the wind is more dangerous than Birth of a nation / Melvin B. Tolson

Griffith and the technical innovations / Paul Goodman

The song of Bernadette ; Annual wrap-up of 1944 ; A great film (The story of G.I. Joe) ; The lost weekend ; Shoeshine ; Day of wrath / James Agee

Introduction to From Caligari to Hitler / Siegfried Kracauer

The gangster as tragic hero ; A feeling of sad dignity (Limelight) / Robert Warshow

The shadow and the act / Ralph Ellison

Got a match? / Martha Wolfenstein and Nathan Leites

The reluctant war hero (Casablanca) / Barbara Deming

Underground films ; White elephant art vs. termite art ; Kitchen without kitsch (with Patricia Patterson) / Manny Farber

Double into quadruple indemnity ; Warhol's new sex film (Blue movie) / Parker Tyler

A king in New York / Eugene Archer

Panther Panchali and Aparajito ; A note on la belle, la perfectly swell, romance / Arlene Croce

The creative joy of the independent film-maker ; Renoir and plotless cinema ; Marilyn Monroe and the loveless world (The misfits) ; On Andy Warhol's Sleep ; Not everything that is fun is cinema (A hard day's night) ; On Bresson and Une femme douce / Jonas Mekas

The misfits ; L'avventura ; Lola Montes / Stanley Kauffmann

The birds ; La guerre est finie ; Falstaff and A countess from Hong Kong ; Science fiction : The Forbin project ; Billy Wilder ; Billy Wilder reconsidered ; John Wayne's strange legacy / Andrew Sarris

The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag

Band of outsiders ; Funny girl ; Trash, art, and the movies ; McCabe & Mrs. Miller / Pauline Kael

8 1/2 / Dwight Macdonald

Cold blood : cheap fiction / Renata Adler

The runners / Donald Phelps

Midnight cowboy ; The wild bunch ; Easy rider ; Z ; They shoot horses, don't they? ; Patton ; Zabriskie Point ; Is Fiddler more De Mille than Sholem Aleichem? / Vincent Canby

These are a few of my favorite things ; Buñuel / William S. Pechter

The woman's film ; Sophisticated interiors ; Melancholy males or movies about men turning 50 / Molly Haskell

Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader

The last picture show ; Jaundice of the soul (Chinatown) / John Simon

Blue notes / Brendan Gill

M*A*S*H / Richard Corliss

from The devil finds work (Lady sings the blues) / James Baldwin

The bitter tears of Petra von Kant / Penelope Gilliatt

The Keaton quiet / Walter Kerr

Bad movies ; The film critic of tomorrow, today / J. Hoberman

Cons and pros (The lady Eve) / Stanley Cavell

Blue velvet ; Sam Fuller : movie bozo / Richard Schickel

Rebirth of a nation (Do the right thing) ; Malcolm X'd again (Malcolm X) / Armond White

The real thing / David Denby

The Italian system / Geoffrey O'Brien

A boy named Sioux (Dances with wolves) / Paul Rudnick (aka Libby Gelman-Waxner)

Cary Grant ; Howard Hawks / David Thomson

Cool cynicism : Pulp fiction / Bell Hooks

Titanic sinks again (spectacularly) / Kenneth Turan

In dreams begin responsibilities (Eyes wide shut) / Jonathan Rosenbaum

Trouble in paradise / Roger Ebert

Gladiator / Stuart Klawans

Imitation of life / James Harvey

Of love and the city (In the mood for love) / Kent Jones

On Val Lewton's The seventh victim / John Ashbery

Ratpacks and pack males / Carrie Rickey

Saying "ain't" and playing "Dixie" : rhetoric and comedy in Judge Priest / Gilberto Perez

Good and evil locked in violent showdown (The passion of the Christ) ; The most overrated film of the year (Sideways) / A.O. Scott

High hopes (The royal Tenenbaums) ; Not-so-nice kitty (The cat in the hat) ; Once disaster hits, it seems never to end (A history of violence) / Manohla Dargis.