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by David Thomson


  Naked Spur, The (1953)

  Nana (1926)

  Napoléon (1927)

  Narita, Hiro

  Nashville (1975)

  Natanson, Jacques

  National Endowment for the Arts

  National Film School (Britain)

  National Film Theatre

  Natural Born Killers (1994)

  Nave Bianca, La (1942)

  Navigator, The (1924)

  Nazimova, Alla

  Nazism

  NBC (National Broadcasting Company)

  NBC Orchestra

  Negri, Pola

  Nelson, Barry

  Nelson, Ricky

  Nemec, Jan

  neorealism

  Net Delusion, The (Morozov)

  Netflix

  Network (1976)

  Neuromancer (Gibson)

  Newman, David

  Newman, Paul

  Newton, Robert

  New Wave

  New York, New York (1977)

  New York, N.Y.

  New Yorker, The

  New York Film Critics Circle

  New York Film Festival

  New York Movie (Hopper, E.)

  Next Time We Love (1936)

  Nibelungen, Die (1924)

  Niccol, Andrew

  Nichols, Mike

  Nicholson, Jack

  Night and Fog (1955)

  Night in an English Music Hall, A (ensemble sketch)

  Night Mail (1936)

  Night of the Hunter, The (1955)

  Nilsson, Maj-Britt

  Nine Men (1943)

  Ninotchka (1939)

  Niven, David

  Nixon (1995)

  Nixon, Marni

  Nixon, Richard

  Nixon at the Movies (Feeney)

  No Country for Old Men (2007)

  noir

  Nolan, Christopher

  Nolte, Nick

  No Man’s Land

  Normand, Mabel

  Norris, Frank

  North by Northwest (1959)

  Northern Exposure (TV series)

  Nosferatu (1922)

  Notebooks of Captain Georges, The (Renoir, J.)

  Notes (Coppola, E.)

  “Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962” (Sarris)

  Notes on the Cinematographer (Bresson)

  Nothing Sacred (1937)

  Notorious (1946)

  Notte, La (1961)

  Novak, Kim

  Now, Voyager (1942)

  Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey

  Nuit du Carrefour, La (1932)

  Nutty Professor, The (1963)

  Nykvist, Sven

  NYPD Blue (TV series)

  Oakes, Philip

  Oates, Joyce Carol

  Obama, Barack

  Oberon, Merle

  Objective, Burma! (1945)

  O’Brien, George

  O’Brien, Margaret

  O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

  Obst, Lynda

  Ocean’s Eleven (1960)

  Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

  Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)

  Ocean’s Twelve (2004)

  O’Connor, Donald

  October (Ten Days That Shook the World) (1928)

  Odd Man Out (1947)

  Odets, Clifford

  Odlum, Floyd

  O’Donnell, Cathy

  Of Human Bondage (1934)

  Ogier, Bulle

  Okada, Eiji

  Oklahoma! (1943)

  Old Maid, The (1939)

  Oliver! (1968)

  Oliver Twist (1948)

  Olivier, Laurence

  Olympia (1938)

  Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

  On Dangerous Ground (1952)

  O’Neal, Ryan

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

  One from the Heart (1982)

  O’Neill, Eugene

  O’Neill, Oona

  On Golden Pond (1981)

  Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

  On the Beach (1959)

  On The Town (1949)

  On the Waterfront (1954)

  Ophüls, Marcel

  Ophüls, Max

  Oppenheimer, Jess

  Oppenheimer, Max

  Orbison, Roy

  Orpheum

  Osborne, John

  Oscars

  Ôshima, Nagisa

  Ossessione (1943)

  Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Othello (1952)

  Other Side of the Wind, The (unfinished)

  Otsep, Fyodor

  Our Daily Bread (1934)

  Our Hospitality (1923)

  Our Miss Brooks (TV series)

  Ouspenskaya, Maria

  Out of Africa (1985)

  Outlaw, The (1943)

  Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)

  Out of the Past (1947)

  Out One (1974)

  “Oval Portrait, The” (Poe)

  Overlanders, The (1946)

  Ovitz, Mike

  Oz (TV series)

  Ozu, Yasujirô

  Pabst, G. W.

  Pacific, The (TV series)

  Pacific Film Archive

  Pacino, Al

  Paini, Dominique

  Paisà (1946)

  Pakula, Alan

  Palance, Jack

  Palermi, Amleto

  Paley, Isaac

  Paley, Samuel

  Paley, William

  Pallette, Eugene

  Palm Beach Story, The (1942)

  Palmer, Tony

  panchromatic black-and-white film

  Pandora’s Box (1929)

  Panic in Needle Park, The (1971)

  Panic in the Streets (1950)

  Panorama du Film Noir Américain, 1941–1953 (Borde and Chaumeton)

  Paper Moon (1973)

  Parain, Brice

  Parallax View, The (1974)

  Paramount

  Paris, Texas (1984)

  Paris Nous Appartient (1961)

  Paris Qui Dort (1924)

  Park, Arthur

  Parker, Bonnie

  Parker, Charlie

  Parlo, Dita

  Parr, Jack

  Parsifal (1983)

  Parsons, Estelle

  Partie de Campagne (1936)

  “Partie de Campagne” (Maupassant)

  Pasolini, Pier Paolo

  Passenger, The (1975)

  Passer, Ivan

  Passionate Friends, The (1949)

  Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)

  Passion Play, The (1900)

  Passport to Pimlico (1949)

  Paths of Glory (1957)

  Patterson, John

  Patton (1970)

  Paul, Robert

  Paulson, Hank

  Paxinou, Katina

  PBS (Public Broadcasting System)

  Pease, Frank

  Peck, Gregory

  Peckinpah, Sam

  Peeping Tom (1960)

  Penn, Arthur

  Pennebaker, D. A.

  People on Sunday (1930)

  People vs. Larry Flynt, The (1996)

  Percy, Walker

  Périnal, Georges

  Perkins, Anthony

  Perkins, V. F.

  Perry Mason (TV series)

  Perske, Betty Joan

  Persona (1966)

  Pesci, Joe

  Petite Marchande d’Allumettes, La (1928)

  Petit Soldat, Le (1963)

  Pevere, Geoff

  Peyton Place (1957)

  Philadelphia Story, The (1940)

  Philby, Kim

  Philip Morris

  Phillips, Michelle

  photographic gun

  photography

  Piano Teacher, The (2001)

  Picasso, Pablo

  Piccoli, Michel

  Pickford, Mary

  Picnic (1955)

  Pidgeon, Walter

  Pierrot le Fou (1965)

  Pierson, Frank

  Pignières, René

  Pillow Talk (1959) />
  Pilota Ritorna, Un (1942)

  Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)

  Pinky (1949)

  Pinter, Harold

  Pirate, The (1948)

  Pirates of the Caribbean series

  Pisier, Marie-France

  Pixar

  Place in the Sun, A (1951)

  Plainsman, The (1936)

  Plaisir, Le (1952)

  Platt, Polly

  Playhouse 90 (TV series)

  Play Misty for Me (1971)

  Pleasure Garden, The (1925)

  Plenty (1985)

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  Poggioli, Ferdinando Maria

  Point Blank (1967)

  Poland

  Polanski, Roman

  Pollard, Michael J.

  Polley, Sarah

  Pollock, Jackson

  Poltergeist (1982)

  PolyVision

  Pommer, Erich

  Pong (Atari game)

  Ponti, Carlo

  population, U.S.

  Pordenone

  Porgy and Bess (1959)

  pornography

  Port of Call (1948)

  Porter, Cole

  Porter, Eric

  Portrait of a Lady, The (James, H.)

  Positif

  Postman Always Rings Twice, The (Cain)

  Potter, Dennis

  Powell, Charles

  Powell, Dick

  Powell, Eleanor

  Powell, Harry

  Powell, Michael

  Powell, Sandy

  Powell, William

  Power, Tyrone

  Prague

  Prague Spring

  Premier Pictures

  Preminger, Otto

  Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, The (Goffman)

  Pressburger, Emeric

  Pretty Woman (1990)

  Prévert, Jacques

  Previn, André

  Price, Dennis

  Price, Vincent

  Pride of the Marines (1945)

  Pride and Prejudice (1940)

  Priestley, J. B.

  Primary (1960)

  Prince and the Showgirl, The (1957)

  Prince Who Was a Thief, The (1951)

  Private Life of Don Juan, The (1934)

  Private Life of Henry VIII, The (1933)

  Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)

  Production Code (1930) (Hays Code)

  Production Code Administration

  production design

  production management

  Professor Unrat (Mann, H.)

  Profumo, John

  Prohibition

  Prokofiev, Sergei

  Proletkult Workers’ Theatre

  Prometheus (2012)

  propaganda

  Protazanov, Yakov

  Proust, Marcel

  Prowler, The (1951)

  Psycho (1960)

  Public Enemies (2009)

  Public Enemy (1931)

  publicity

  Public Speaking (2010)

  Puccini, Giacomo

  Pudovkin, Vsevolod

  Pugh, Madelyn

  Pulp Fiction (1994)

  Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

  Purple Mask, The (1955)

  Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985)

  Pushkin, Alexander

  Puzo, Mario

  Pylon (Faulkner)

  Quaid, Randy

  Quai des Brumes (1938)

  Quatre Cent Coups, Les (1959)

  Queen Christina (1933)

  Queen Kelly (1929)

  Queen of Spades, The (1916)

  Que Viva Mexico! (1933)

  Quiet Man, The (1952)

  Quirke, Antonia

  Quo Vadis? (1913)

  Quo Vadis? (1925)

  Rachmaninoff, Sergei

  RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)

  radio

  Radio City Music Hall

  Radio Days (1987)

  Rafelson, Bob

  Raft, George

  Raging Bull (1980)

  Ragtime (Doctorow)

  Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

  Rainer, Luise

  Raines, Ella

  Rain People, The (1969)

  Rains, Claude

  “Raising Kane” (Kael)

  Rambo series

  Rand, Ayn

  Rankin, John

  Rank Organisation

  Rapf, Harry

  Rappe, Virginia

  Rashomon

  Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

  Ratoff, Gregory

  Rat Pack

  Rattigan, Terence

  Rauschenberg, Robert

  Rawhide (TV series)

  Ray, Aldo

  Ray, Nicholas

  Ray, Satyajit

  Ray, Susan

  Raybert Productions

  Rayns, Tony

  RCA

  Reach for the Sky (1956)

  Reagan, Michael

  Reagan, Ronald

  realism

  reality shows

  Rear Window (1954)

  Rebecca (1940)

  Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

  Reckless Moment, The (1949)

  Red Buttons Show, The (TV series)

  Redford, Robert

  Redgrave, Michael

  Redgrave, Vanessa

  Red Riding (2009)

  Red River (1948)

  Reds (1981)

  Red Shoes, The (1948)

  Red Skelton Hour, The (TV series)

  Reed, Carol

  Reed, Donna

  Reed, Oliver

  Reeling (Kael)

  Règle du Jeu, La (1939)

  Reid, Wallace

  Reimann, Walter

  Reinhardt, Gottfried

  Reinhardt, Max

  Reisch, Walter

  Reiser, Leonard

  Reissar, Jenia

  Reisz, Karel

  Reith, John

  Religieuse, La (1966)

  Remarque, Erich Maria

  Rembrandt (1936)

  Remick, Lee

  Remnick, David

  Renoir, Aline

  Renoir, Jean

  Renoir, My Father (Renoir, J.)

  Renoir, Pierre

  Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

  rentals

  Repulsion (1965)

  Reservoir Dogs (1992)

  Resnais, Alain

  Return of the Jedi, The (1984)

  Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)

  Reville, Alma

  Revue Productions

  Rey, Fernando

  Reynolds, Debbie

  Reynolds, William

  Rich, Frank

  Richards, I. A.

  Richardson, Miranda

  Richardson, Ralph

  Richardson, Robert

  Richardson, Tony

  Richie, Donald

  Rickles, Don

  Ridgely, John

  Riefenstahl, Leni

  Riesenfeld, Hugo

  Riesman, David

  Rifleman, The (TV series)

  Right Stuff, The (1983)

  Rin Tin Tin

  Rio Bravo (1959)

  Riskin, Robert

  Ritt, Martin

  Riva, Emmanuelle

  River, The (1951)

  Rivera, Diego

  Rivette, Jacques

  Rizzoli, Angelo

  RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum)

  Roadside Attractions

  Road to Morocco (1942)

  Robards, Jason

  Robe, The (1953)

  Roberta (1935)

  Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène

  Roberts, Julia

  Robinson, Casey

  Robinson, Edward G.

  Robinson, Jackie

  Rocco, Alex

  Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

  Rockford Files, The (TV series)

  Rocky (1976)

  Rocky series

  Rodgers, Gaby

  Rodgers, Richard

  Roeg, Nicolas


  Rogers, Ginger

  Rogers, Will

  Rohmer, Eric

  Röhrig, Walter

  Rolph, James, Jr.

  Roman Scandals (1933)

  Rome

  Rome, Open City (1945)

  Ronde, La (1950)

  Ronet, Maurice

  Room Service (1938)

  Rooney, Mickey

  Roos, Fred

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Rope (1948)

  Rosellini, Anne

  Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

  Rosenthal, Lisa

  Rose Scarlatte (1940)

  Rose Tattoo, The (1955)

  Rosher, Charles

  Rosita (1923)

  Rossellini, Isabella

  Rossellini, Roberto

  Rota, Nino

  Rothman, Tom

  Roud, Richard

  Roue, La (1923)

  Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (TV series)

  Roxy

  Rubicon (TV series)

  Ruddy, Al

  Rudin, Scott

  Rudolph, Alan

  Ruman, Sig

  Run of the Arrow (1957)

  Russell, Harold

  Russell, Jane

  Russell, Ken

  Russell, Rosalind

  Russian cinema

  Russian Revolution

  Ryan, Robert

  Ryan’s Daughter (1970)

  Rydell, Mark

  Sabotage (1936)

  Sabu

  Sacrifice, The (1986)

  Safe Conduct (2002)

  Sagan, Françoise

  St. Denis, Ruth

  St. Joan (Shaw, G. B.)

  Salinger, Conrad

  Saltzman, Harry

  Salvation Hunters, The (1925)

  Sanctuary (Faulkner)

  Sanda, Dominique

  San Demetrio London (1943)

  Sanders, George

  Sandford, Jeremy

  Sandler, Adam

  Sandrelli, Stefania

  Sands Casino

  Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

  Sanford, Erskine

  Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

  Santana Productions

  Saratoga Trunk (1945)

  Sarnoff, David

  Sarris, Andrew

  Sartre, Jean-Paul

  satellites, communications

  Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

  Saved

  Saville, Victor

  Saving Private Ryan (1998)

  Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

  Sayles, John

  Saylor, Morgan

  Sayonara (1957)

  Scarface (1932)

  Scarface (1983)

  Scarfiotti, Ferdinando

  Scarlet Empress, The (1934)

  Scarlet Street (1945)

  Scavarda, Aldo

  Scenes from a Marriage (1973)

  Schaefer, George

  Schaffner, Franklin

  Schary, Dore

  Scheider, Roy

  Schenck, Joseph

  Schenck, Nick

  Schickel, Richard

  Schiesel, Seth

  Schiffman, Suzanne

  Schindler’s List (1993)

  Schlesinger, Arthur

  Schlesinger, John

  Schlesinger, Paula

  Schneider, Bert

  Schneider, Maria

  Schneider, Romy

  Schnitzler, Arthur

  Schoonmaker, Thelma

  Schrader, Paul

  Schroeder, Barbet

  Schulberg, B. P.

  Schulberg, Budd

  Schwarzbaum, Lisa

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold

  Sciuscià (1946)

  Scofield, Paul

  Scorsese, Martin

  Scott, A. O.

  Scott, George C.

 

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