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by David Thomson

Kanal (1957)

  Kanfer, Stefan

  Kardashian, Kim

  Karina, Anna

  Karl May (1976)

  Karloff, Boris

  Karno, Fred

  Katz, Sam

  Katzenberg, Jeffrey

  Kauffmann, Stanley

  Kaufman, Boris

  Kaufman, George S.

  Kaufman, Philip

  Kaye, Danny

  Kazan, Elia

  Kazan, Molly

  Keaton, Buster

  Keaton, Diane

  Keaton, Joseph Frank “Buster”

  Keel, Howard

  Keeler, Christine

  Keeler, Ruby

  Keeper of the Flame (1942)

  Kefauver Commission

  Keitel, Harvey

  Keller, Helen

  Kelly, Gene

  Kelly, Grace

  Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kerkorian, Kirk

  Kern, Jerome

  Kerr, Deborah

  Kershner, Irvin

  Kesey, Ken

  Keystone

  Kiarostami, Abbas

  Kid, The (1921)

  Kidd, Michael

  Kidman, Nicole

  Kieslowski, Krzysztof

  Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (2003 and 2004)

  Killers, The (1964)

  Killer’s Kiss (1955)

  Killing, The (1956)

  Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

  Kind of Loving, A (1962)

  King and I, The (musical)

  King Coal (Sinclair, U.)

  King Kong (1933)

  King of Marvin Gardens, The (1972)

  Kingsley, Ben

  King’s Speech, The (2010)

  kino trains

  Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

  Kiss Me Kate (1953)

  Kiss of Death (1947)

  Klass, Perri

  Klein-Rogge, Rudolf

  Klute (1971)

  Knight, Arthur

  Knight Without Armour (1937)

  Knock on Any Door (1949)

  Knox, Alexander

  Koch, Carl

  Koch, Howard

  Kodak

  Koerner, Charles

  Korda, Alexander

  Korda, Michael

  Korda, Vincent

  Korda, Zoltan

  Korean War

  Kortner, Fritz

  Kosma, Joseph

  Kovacs, Ernie

  Kracauer, Siegfried

  Kramer, Stanley

  Krasker, Robert

  Krauss, Werner

  Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)

  Kristofferson, Kris

  Kubrick, Stanley

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kuleshov, Lev

  Kundera, Milan

  Kundun (1997)

  Kurosawa, Akira

  Kürten, Peter

  Kushner, Tony

  Kyô, Machiko

  Labiche, Eugène

  Labourdette, Elina

  Labourier, Dominique

  La Cava, Gregory

  Lady Eve, The (1941)

  Lady from Shanghai, The (1947)

  Ladykillers, The (1955)

  Lady Vanishes, The (1938)

  Laemmle, Carl

  Lafont, Bernadette

  Lam, Ringo

  La Marr, Barbara

  Lamarr, Hedy

  Lambert, Gavin

  Lamour, Dorothy

  Lancaster, Burt

  Lanchester, Elsa

  Landscape in the Mist (1988)

  Lang, Anton

  Lang, Fritz

  Lang, Jennings

  Lange, Dorothea

  Langlois, Henri

  Lapham, Lewis

  Larkyns, Harry

  Lartigue, Jacques Henri

  LaSalle, Mick

  Lasky, Jesse

  Lasseter, John

  Last Command, The (1928)

  Last Laugh, The (Der Letzte Mann) (1924)

  Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)

  Last Picture Show, The (1971)

  Last Tango in Paris (1972)

  Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)

  Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald)

  Las Vegas, Nev.

  Late Night Line-Up (TV series)

  Lattuada, Alberto

  Laughton, Charles

  Laura (1944)

  Laurel, Stan

  Laurie, Piper

  Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951)

  Law, Jude

  Law and Order (TV series)

  Lawrence, Jennifer

  Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

  Leachman, Cloris

  Leacock, Ricky

  Lean, David

  Leander, Zarah

  Léaud, Jean-Pierre

  Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

  Leavis, F. R.

  Lebowitz, Fran

  LeFanu, Mark

  Lehane, Dennis

  Lehman, Ernest

  Lehrman, Henry

  Leigh, Janet

  Leigh, Mike

  Leigh, Vivien

  Leighton, Margaret

  Leisen, Mitchell

  Lemmon, Jack

  Lengyel, Melchior

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

  Leone, Sergio

  Leopard, The (1963)

  Lesser, Sol

  Lester, Richard

  Leterrier, François

  Letter, The (1940)

  Letter, The (Maugham, S.)

  Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

  Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

  Letter to Elia, A (2010)

  Let There Be Light (1946)

  Levi, Primo

  Lewis, Damian

  Lewis, Jerry

  Lewis, Robert

  Liberace

  Liebelei (1933)

  Lifeboat (1944)

  Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)

  Life of Oharu, The (1952)

  Light in August (Faulkner)

  light in L.A.

  Liliom (1934)

  Lilith (1964)

  Limelight (1952)

  Lincoln (2012)

  Linder, Max

  Lindsay-Hogg, Michael

  Lindstrom, Martin

  Lindstrom, Petter

  Lindstrom, Pia

  linkage

  Linney, Laura

  Lion in Winter, The (1968)

  Listen to Britain (1942)

  Litvak, Anatole

  Livesey, Roger

  Lives of Others, The (2006)

  Livingstone, Margaret

  L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation

  Lloyd, Frank

  Lloyd, Harold

  Loach, Ken

  Loden, Barbara

  Lodger, The (1927)

  Loew’s Inc.

  Logan, John

  Logan, Joshua

  Lohan, Lindsay

  Lola Montès (1955)

  Lolita (Nabokov)

  Lolita (1962)

  Lombard, Carole

  London Film Festival

  London Film Society

  London National Film Theatre

  London School of Film Technique

  Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The (1962)

  Lonely Crowd, The (Riesman)

  Long, Hot Summer, The (1958)

  Long Day’s Journey into Night (1962)

  Longest Day, The (1962)

  Longford (2006)

  Long Goodbye, The (1973)

  Long Voyage Home, The (1940)

  Look Back in Anger (1959)

  Lord, Robert

  Lord of the Rings, The, series

  Loren, Sophia

  Lorre, Peter

  Los Angeles, Calif.; conservatism of; light in; scandals in

  Losey, Joseph

  Los Olvidados (1950)

  Lost in Translation (2003)

  Lost Weekend, The (1945)

  Louisiana Story (1948)

  Love (1927)

  Love Boat, The (TV series)

 
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

  Lovelace, Linda

  Loves of a Blonde (1965)

  Love Story (1970)

  Lovsky, Celia

  Low, David

  Loy, Myrna

  Lubitsch, Ernst

  Lucas, George

  Lucas, Marcia

  Lucasfilm

  Luck (TV series)

  Lucy Show, The (TV series)

  Luddy, Tom

  Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King (1972)

  Lugosi, Bela

  Lumière, Antoine

  Lumière, Auguste

  Lumière, Louis

  Lunacharsky, Anatoly

  Lupino, Ida

  Lust for Life (1956)

  Lusty Men, The (1952)

  Lynch, David

  Lyon, Sue

  M (1931)

  M (1951)

  MacArthur, Douglas

  Macbeth (1948)

  MacDonald, Jeanette

  MacDonald, Richard

  Machaty, Gustav

  Machine Animale, La (Marey)

  Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)

  Mack, Helen

  Mackendrick, Alexander

  MacLachlan, Kyle

  MacMurray, Fred

  Madame Bovary (1933)

  Madame Bovary (1949)

  Madame Curie (1943)

  Madame de… (1953)

  Madeleine (1950)

  Made in U.S.A. (1966)

  Mad Love (1935)

  Mad Men (TV series)

  Madonna

  Madsen, Michael

  Maggiorani, Lamberto

  Magnani, Anna

  Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)

  Magnificent Obsession (1954)

  Magnificent Seven, The (1960)

  Magritte, René

  Mahler, Gustav

  Mailer, Norman

  Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

  Malick, Terrence

  Malle, Louis

  Malone, Dorothy

  Malpaso Productions

  Malraux, André

  Maltese Falcon, The (1941)

  Mamoulian, Rouben

  Man and Superman (Shaw, G. B.)

  Mancini, Henry

  Mandel, Loring

  Mandela, Nelson

  Mander, Jerry

  Man Escaped, A (1956)

  Man From Laramie, The (1955)

  Mangano, Silvana

  Manhattan (1979)

  Mankiewicz, Herman

  Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

  Mann, Anthony

  Mann, Delbert

  Mann, Heinrich

  Mann, Michael

  Mann, Thomas

  Manoogian, Haig

  Manvell, Roger

  Man in the White Suit, The (1951)

  Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)

  Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)

  Man with a Movie Camera, The (1929)

  March, Fredric

  Marchand, Nancy

  Marèse, Janie

  Marey, Étienne-Jules

  Marilyn (Mailer)

  Marked Woman (1937)

  Marker, Chris

  Mark of Zorro, The (1940)

  Marnie (1964)

  Marquand, Richard

  Marriage of Figaro, The (Beaumarchais)

  Marriage Italian Style (1964)

  Marriage of Maria Braun, The (1979)

  Marseillaise, La (1938)

  Marsh, Mae

  Marshall, Herbert

  Marshman, D. M., Jr.

  Martin, Dean

  Martin, Henry

  Martin, Hugh

  Marty (1955)

  Marvin, Lee

  Marx, Groucho

  Marx, Samuel

  Marx Brothers

  Mary of Scotland (1936)

  Mary Tyler Moore Productions

  Masculine-Féminine (1966)

  M.A.S.H. (1970)

  Mask, The (1994)

  Mason, James

  Massari, Lea

  Mass Observation

  Mast, Gerald

  Masterpiece Theatre

  Mastroianni, Marcello

  Mata, Juan

  Maté, Rudolph

  Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)

  Matthews, Jesse

  Mature, Victor

  Maugham, Robin

  Maugham, Somerset

  Maupassant, Guy de

  Max Reinhardt company

  Mayer, Carl

  Mayer, Irene

  Mayer, Jacob

  Mayer, Louis B.

  Mayer and Thalberg (Marx, S.)

  Mayersberg, Paul

  Maysles, Albert

  Mazursky, Paul

  MCA (Music Corporation of America)

  McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

  McCambridge, Mercedes

  McCarey, Leo

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McCarthy, Todd

  McClory, Kevin

  McCrea, Joel

  McGilligan, Patrick

  McGuire, Dorothy

  McIntire, John

  McKenna, Virginia

  McLaglen, Victor

  McLuhan, Marshall

  McMurtry, Larry

  McNally, Stephen

  McQueen, Steve

  McTeague (Norris)

  Me, Natalie (1969)

  Mean Streets (1973)

  Mechanical Bride, The (McLuhan)

  Medium Is the Massage, The (McLuhan)

  Meeker, Ralph

  Meerson, Lazare

  Meet John Doe (1941)

  Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

  Mekas, Adolfas

  Mekas, Jonas

  Melancholia (2011)

  Méliès, Gaston

  Méliès, Georges

  Melnick, Dan

  Melville, Jean-Pierre

  Memento (2000)

  Men in War (1957)

  Menjou, Adolphe

  Menzel, Jií

  Menzies, William Cameron

  Mépris, Le (Contempt) (1963)

  Mercer, Johnny

  merchandising

  Mercury Theatre Company

  Meredith, Burgess

  Meredyth, Bess

  Messiter, Dolly

  Method acting

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M-G-M)

  Metropolis (1927)

  Metty, Russell

  Meyerhold, Vsevelod

  Meyjes, Menno

  Mezzogiorno, Giovanna

  Michel, Marc

  Mickey One (1965)

  Midnight (1939)

  Midnight Cowboy (1969)

  Midnight in Paris (2011)

  Mifune, Toshirô

  Milch, David

  Mildred Pierce (1945)

  Miles, Sarah

  Miles, Vera

  Milestone, Lewis

  Milius, John

  Milland, Ray

  Miller, Arthur

  Million, Le (1931)

  Millionaire, The (TV series)

  Million Dollar Baby (2004)

  Milner, Martin

  Milton, John

  Min and Bill (1930)

  Minghella, Anthony

  Minnelli, Liza

  Minnelli, Vincente

  Minter, Mary Miles

  Miracle in Milan (1951)

  Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, The (1944)

  Miracle Woman, The (1931)

  Miracle Worker, The (1962)

  Miramax

  Miranda, Isa

  Mirren, Helen

  Mirror, The (1975)

  mirrors in film

  Misérables, Les (1935)

  Misfits, The (1961)

  Mishima (1985)

  Mission: Impossible (TV series)

  Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

  Miss Julie (1951)

  Miss Mend (1926)

  Missouri Breaks, The (1976)

  Mister Roberts (1955)

  Mistons, Les (1957)

  Mitchum, Robert

  Mix, Tom

  Mizoguchi, Kenji

  Moderns, The
(1988)

  Modern Times (1936)

  Molina, Ángela

  Monroe, Marilyn

  Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

  montage

  Montagu, Ivor

  Montgomery, Robert

  Monty Python’s Flying Circus (TV series)

  Moore, Julianne

  Moore, Mary Tyler

  Moorehead, Agnes

  Moran, Dolores

  Moran, Lois

  Moravia, Alberto

  Moreau, Jeanne

  Morecambe, Eric

  Moreuil, François

  Morgan, Peter

  Morgenstern, Ignace

  Morgenstern, Joe

  Morgenstern, Madeleine

  Morning Departure (1950)

  Morocco (1930)

  Morose, Jeanne

  Morozov, Evgeny

  Morricone, Ennio

  Morris, Edmund

  Mortal Storm, The (1940)

  Mortimer, John

  Morton, Samantha

  Moscow Art Theatre

  Moss, Jack

  Mote (Teodoro)

  Mother (1926)

  Mother and the Whore, The (1973)

  Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals

  Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

  Motion Picture Patents Company

  Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America

  Motion Pictures Patents Company

  Moulin Rouge (2001)

  Moullet, Luc

  Mountbatten, Louis

  Moussy, Marcel

  Moviegoer, The (Percy)

  movie industry: blacklist in; contracts in; financial misreporting by; founding fathers of; myth of discovery in; scandals and; self-regulation by

  movies: affinity with shopping and; clothes in; commercial cheerfulness in American; cost of; cultural disdain for; doppelgänger idea in; early reactions to; editing of; marriage of light and dark in; nudity in; ratings of; sex in; silver age of; smoking in; state film and; studio system in; town-country split and; of World War II

  Movietone

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  Mr. Arkadin (1955)

  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

  Mr. Klein (1976)

  Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)

  Mr. Skeffington (1944)

  Mrs. Miniver (1942)

  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

  Mulholland Dr. (2001)

  Mulholland Falls (1996)

  Muni, Paul

  Munich (2005)

  Murch, Walter

  Murder in the Air (1940)

  Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

  Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

  Murdoch, Rupert

  Murnau, F. W.

  Murphy, Audie

  Murphy, Eddie

  Murray, James

  musicals

  Musil, Robert

  Mussolini, Benito

  Mussolini, Vittorio

  Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

  Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

  Muybridge, Eadweard

  Muybridge, Flora

  Muybridge, Florado Helios

  My Autobiography (Chaplin)

  My Face for the World to See (Hayes, A.)

  My Favorite Husband (radio show)

  My Man Godfrey (1936)

  My Night at Maud’s (1969)

  Myron Selznick Agency

  Mystic River (2003)

  My Three Sons (TV series)

  My Week with Marilyn (2011)

  NAACP

  Nabokov, Vera

  Nabokov, Vladimir

  Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer)

  Naked Island, The (1951)

  Naked Kiss, The (1964)

 

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