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by David Thomson


  Scott, Helen

  Scott, Randolph

  Scott, Ridley

  screen

  Screen Actors Guild

  screen presence

  Sea of Grass, The (1947)

  Searchers, The (1956)

  Seastrom, Victor

  Seberg, Jean

  Secret Agent (1936)

  Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

  Sedgwick, Edie

  Seitz, John

  Sellers, Peter

  Selznick, Brian

  Selznick, David O.

  Selznick, Irene Mayer

  Selznick, Lewis J.

  Selznick, Myron

  Sennett, Mack

  Senso (1954)

  Separation, A (2011)

  Sergeant York (1941)

  serial killers

  Serkis, Andy

  Serpent’s Egg, The (1977)

  Servant, The (1963)

  Servant, The (Maugham, R.)

  Seton, Marie

  sets

  Seven Arts

  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

  Seven Samurai (1954)

  7th Heaven (1927)

  Seventh Seal, The (1957)

  Seven Year Itch, The (1955)

  sex, lies, and videotape (1989)

  Sex and the City (TV series)

  Seymour, Dan

  Shakespeare, William

  Shakespeare in Love (1998)

  Shales, Tom

  Shall We Dance? (1937)

  Shame (2011)

  Shampoo (1975)

  Shanghai Express (1932)

  Shaw, Anna

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Shaw, Robert

  Shearer, Douglas

  Shearer, Moira

  Shearer, Norma

  Shearer Hawks, Athole

  Sheen, Martin

  Sheinberg, Sid

  Shenberg, Margaret

  Shepherd, Cybill

  Shepherd’s Bush

  Shepitko, Larisa

  Shepperton Studios

  Sheridan, Ann

  Sherlock Jr. (1924)

  Sherman, Lowell

  Sherwood, Robert

  Shimura, Takashi

  Shining, The (1980)

  Shire, Talia

  Shivas, Mark

  Shock Corridor (1963)

  Shoeshine (1948)

  Shop Around the Corner, The (1940)

  Shopworn Angel, The (1938)

  Short Cuts (1993)

  Showtime

  Shumyatsky, Boris

  Shurlock, Geoffrey

  Shute, Nevil

  Shutter Island (2010)

  Sidney, George

  Sieg des Glaubens (Victory of the Faith) (1933)

  Siegel, Bugsy

  Siegel, Don

  Siegfried (1924)

  Sight & Sound

  Sign of the Pagan (1954)

  Signora di Tutti, La (1934)

  Signora Senza Camelie, La (1953)

  Signoret, Simone

  Signor Max, Il (1937)

  Silence (forthcoming)

  Silence, The (1963)

  Silence de la Mer, Le (1949)

  Silence de la Mer, Le (Vercors)

  Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)

  silent cinema: remorse in; voyeurism in

  Silk Stockings (1957)

  Simenon, Georges

  Simmons, Jean

  Simon, David

  Simon, Michel

  Sinatra (forthcoming)

  Sinatra, Frank

  Since You Went Away (1944)

  Sinclair, Craig

  Sinclair, Upton

  Singing Detective, The (1986)

  Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

  Siodmak, Curt

  Siodmak, Robert

  Sirk, Douglas

  Sirocco (1951)

  Sissignora (1942)

  sit-coms

  Six Feet Under (TV series)

  $64,000 Question, The (TV series)

  Sjöberg, Alf

  Sjöström, Victor

  Skin of Our Teeth, The (1943)

  Sky Television

  Skywalker Ranch

  Sleeper (1973)

  Sleeping Beauty (1959)

  Sleeping Tiger, The (1954)

  Sleepless in Seattle

  Slide Area, The (Lambert)

  Slim: Memories of a Rich and Imperfect Life (Gross and Tapert)

  Sloane, Everett

  Small Black Room, The (1949)

  Smash-Up (1947)

  Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

  Smothers Brothers

  Snake Pit, The (1948)

  Social Network, The (2010)

  social realism

  Soderbergh, Steven

  Sokurov, Aleksandr

  Solntseva, Yulia

  Solomon and Sheba (1959)

  Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

  Some Like It Hot (1959)

  Something’s Gotta Give (1962)

  Son of Ali Baba (1952)

  Sontag, Susan

  Sophie’s Choice (1982)

  Sopranos, The (TV series)

  Sorelle Materassi (1943)

  sound

  Sound and the Fury, The (1959)

  Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner)

  Sound of Music, The (1965)

  Sous le Toits de Paris (1930)

  Southern, Terry

  South Pacific (1949)

  South Pacific (1958)

  Souvestre, Pierre

  Soviet Union

  Spartacus (1960)

  special effects

  Speer, Albert

  Spellbound (1945)

  Spelling, Aaron

  Spider-Man

  series

  Spielberg, Steven

  Spies (1928)

  Spillane, Mickey

  Spinnen, Die (1919)

  Splendor in the Grass (1961)

  Spring Awakening (Wedekind)

  Springfield Rifle (1952)

  Spy in Black, The (1939)

  Squaw Man, The (1914)

  Stack, Robert

  Stagecoach (1939)

  Stage Door (1937)

  Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stalker (1979)

  Stallone, Sylvester

  Stanford, Leland

  Stanislavsky, Konstantin

  Stanton, Harry Dean

  Stanwyck, Barbara

  Star, Darren

  Stardust Memories (1980)

  Star Is Born, A (1937)

  Star Is Born, A (1954)

  Starsky and Hutch (TV series)

  Star Trek (TV series)

  Star Wars (1977)

  Star Wars

  series

  state film

  Statues Meurent Aussi, Les (1953)

  Steichen, Edward

  Steiger, Rod

  Stein, Gertrude

  Stein, Jules

  Steinbeck, John

  Steiner, Max

  Steven, Kitty

  Stevens, George

  Stewart, James “Jimmy,” a

  Stewart, Potter

  Stiller, Mauritz

  Sting, The (1973)

  Stockwell, Dean

  Stone, Oliver

  Stone, Sharon

  Stoppard, Tom

  Storaro, Vittorio

  Stories We Tell (forthcoming)

  Storm over Asia (1928)

  Storms over Mont Blanc (1930)

  storyboarding

  Story of Adele H., The (1975)

  Story of G.I. Joe, The (1945)

  Story of Temple Drake, The (1933)

  Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, The (1939)

  Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, The (1939)

  Strada, La (1954)

  Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The (Stevenson, Robert Louis)

  Strangers on a Train (1951)

  Strasberg, Lee

  Straw Dogs (1971)

  Streep, Meryl

  Street Angel (1928)
r />   Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)

  Strike (1925)

  Strike It Rich (TV series)

  Strike Up the Band (1940)

  Stroheim, Erich von

  Stromboli (1950)

  Struss, Karl

  Struther, Jan

  Studio Basic Agreement

  studio system

  Sturges, John

  Sturges, Preston

  Sturridge, Charles

  Sudermann, Hermann

  Sugarland Express, The (1974)

  Sullavan, Margaret

  Sullivan, Annie

  Sullivan’s Travels (1942)

  Summer Interlude (1951)

  Summer Stock (1950)

  Summer with Monika (1953)

  Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway)

  Sundance

  Sunderland, Nan

  Sunrise: The Song of Two Humans (1927)

  Sunset Blvd.

  Sunshine and Shadow (Pickford)

  Super 8 (2011)

  surrealism

  Sur un Air de Charleston (1927)

  Sutherland, Donald

  Sutherland, Kiefer

  Sutter’s Gold (1936)

  Sutter’s Gold (Cendrars)

  Svensk Filmindustri

  Swamp Women (1956)

  Swanson, Gloria

  Sweet, Blanche

  Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

  Swing Time (1936)

  Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen

  Sylbert, Richard

  syndication

  Tabu (1931)

  Taking Off (1971)

  Talmadge, Natalie

  Talmadge, Norma

  Tamahori, Lee

  Tamiroff, Akim

  Tanaka, Kinuyo

  Tandy, Jessica

  Tapert, Annette

  Taradash, Daniel

  Tarantino, Quentin

  Targets (1968)

  Tarkington, Booth

  Tarkovsky, Andrei

  Tarnished Angels, The (1957)

  Tarr, Béla

  Taste of Honey, A (1961)

  Tati, Jacques

  Tavel, Ronald

  Tavernier, Bertrand

  Tavoularis, Dean

  Taxi Driver (1976)

  Taylor, Elizabeth

  Taylor, Robert

  Taylor, William Desmond

  Teahouse of the August Moon, The (1956)

  Team of Rivals (Goodwin)

  Technicolor

  television

  Telluride Film Festival

  Telstar

  Temple, Shirley

  Teodoro, José

  Teresa Venerdì (1941)

  Terminal, The (2004)

  Terminator, The, series

  Terra Trema, La (1948)

  Teshighara, Hiroshi

  Tessier, Valentine

  Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The (1932)

  Thalberg, Irving G.

  That Forsyte Woman (1949)

  That Hamilton Woman (1941)

  That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

  That Was the Week That Was (1962)

  theaters: attendance at; number of

  There Will Be Blood (2007)

  They Live by Night (1949)

  They Were Expendable (1945)

  Thief of Baghdad, The (1940)

  Thin Red Line, The (1998)

  Third Man, The (1949)

  Thirst (1949)

  39 Steps, The (1935)

  This Happy Breed (1944)

  This Sporting Life (1963)

  Thomas, Olive

  Thompson, Emma

  Thompson, Kay

  Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

  Three Ages (1923)

  Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)

  3-D

  Three Faces of Eve, The (1957)

  Through a Glass Darkly (1961)

  Thulin, Ingrid

  Thunderball (1965)

  Thunder over Mexico (1933)

  Thurman, Uma

  THX 1138 (1971)

  Tiefland (1954)

  Tierney, Gene

  Tih Minh (1918)

  Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914)

  Tinker, Grant

  Tiomkin, Dimitri

  Tirez sur le Pianiste (1960)

  Tisse, Eduard

  To Be or Not to Be (1942)

  To Catch a Thief (1955)

  Today We Live (1933)

  Todd, Ann

  To Have and Have Not (1944)

  To Hell and Back (1955)

  Tokyo Joe (1949)

  Tokyo Story (1953)

  Toland, Gregg

  Tolstoy, Leo

  Toni (1935)

  Tonti, Aldo

  Too Big to Fail (2011)

  Top Hat (1935)

  Topper (TV series)

  Torn, Rip

  Tosca, La (1941)

  Toscanini, Arturo

  Touch, The (1971)

  Touch of Evil (1958)

  Tourneur, Jacques

  Tous les Garçons S’Appellent Patrick (1957)

  Toute la Mémoire du Monde (1956)

  Towering Inferno, The (1974)

  Towne, Robert

  Town Like Alice, A (1956)

  Toy Story (1995)

  Toy Story 3 (2010)

  tracking shots

  Tracy, Spencer

  Travelling Players, The (1975)

  Travolta, John

  Tree, Herbert Beerbohm

  Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945)

  Tree of Life, The (2011)

  Trial, The (1962)

  Tribeca Film Festival

  Trinder, Tommy

  Trintignant, Jean-Louis

  “Trip to Tilsit, The” (Sudermann)

  Triumph of the Will (1935)

  Trollope, Anthony

  Trotsky, Leon

  Trouble with Harry, The (1955)

  Truckline Café (Anderson, Maxwell)

  True Blood (TV series)

  True Grit (2010)

  True Romance (1993)

  Truffaut, François

  Truly Madly Deeply (1990)

  Truman Show, The (1998)

  Tucci, Stanley

  Tugboat Annie (1932)

  Turgenev, Ivan

  Turkel, Joe

  Turner, Lana

  Turner Classic Movies

  Tushingham, Rita

  Twelve O’Clock High (1949)

  Twentieth Century–Fox

  20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

  24 (TV series)

  24 Hour Psycho (1993)

  Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (2005)

  Twilight series

  Twin Peaks (TV series)

  Twitter

  Two English Girls (1971)

  Two for the Money (TV series)

  Two Jakes, The (1990)

  Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)

  2001 (1968)

  Ufa (Universum Film AG)

  Ufa-Palast am Zoo

  Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)

  UK Film Council

  Ullmann, Liv

  Ulmer, Edgar G.

  Ulysses (1954)

  Ulysses’ Gaze (1995)

  Umberto D. (1952)

  Umeki, Miyoshi

  Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988)

  Un Chien Andalou (1929)

  Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)

  Un Condamné a Mort S’Est Echappé

  (A Man Escaped) (1956)

  Understanding Media (McLuhan)

  Underworld (1927)

  “Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français” (Truffaut)

  Une Femme Est une Femme (1961)

  Une Femme Mariée (1964)

  Une Histoire d’Eau (1958)

  Une Vie (1958)

  Unforgiven (1992)

  unions

  United Artists

  Universal

  Universal International

  Unvital, Monica

  Uomo dalla Croce, L’ (1943)

  Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)

 
Valenti, Jack

  Valentino, Rudolph

  Valli, Alida

  Valmont (1989)

  Vampires, Les (1915)

  Vance, Vivian

  Van Druten, John

  Van Dyke, Dick

  Van Patten, Tim

  Varda, Agnes

  Veidt, Conrad

  Venice Film Festival

  Vercors

  Verlorene, Der (1951)

  Veronika Voss (1982)

  Vertigo (1958)

  Vertov, Dziga

  Viaggio in Italia (1954)

  Victory of Samothrace (Gance)

  Vidal, Gore

  video

  video games

  Vidor, Florence

  Vidor, King

  Vie Est à Nous, La (1936)

  Viertel, Berthold

  Viertel, Salka

  Vietnam War

  Vigo, Jean

  Vincent, Frank

  Vincere (2009)

  Vinterberg, Thomas

  violence

  Virginian, The (1914)

  Virgin Spring, The (1960)

  Viridiana (1961)

  Visconti, Luchino

  Vitti, Monica

  Viva

  Viva Villa! (1934)

  Viva Zapata! (1952)

  Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

  Vogel, Amos

  von Harbou, Thea

  von Sternberg, Josef

  von Stroheim, Erich

  von Sydow, Max

  von Trier, Lars

  Voyage to Cythera (1984)

  Wagon Train (TV series)

  Wai, Wong Kar

  Waiting for Lefty (1935)

  Waits, Tom

  Wajda, Andrzej

  Walbrook, Anton

  Waldon, Louis

  Walken, Christopher

  Walker, Robert

  Walk in the Sun, A (1945)

  Walküre, Die (opera), directed by Eisenstein

  Wallace, David Foster

  Wallach, Eli

  Wallis, Hal

  Walsh, Raoul

  Walters, Charles

  Walthall, Henry B.

  Walton, William

  Waltons, The (TV series)

  Wanda (1970)

  War and Peace (1956)

  War and Peace (Tolstoy)

  Ward, John

  Ward, Peter

  Warden, Jack

  War Game, The (1965)

  Warhol, Andy

  War Horse (2011)

  Warm, Hermann

  war movies

  Warner, Albert

  Warner, Harry

  Warner, Jack

  Warner, Sam

  Warner Bros.

  “War of the Worlds, The” (radio drama)

  Warren Commission

  Warrens of Virginia, The (1907)

  Wasserman, Lew

  Watergate scandal

  Waters, Ethel

  Watkins, Peter

  Watt, Harry

  Watts, Naomi

  Waugh, Evelyn

  Waxman, Franz

  Way Ahead, The (1944)

  Way Back, The (2010)

  Way Down East (1920)

  Wayne, David

  Wayne, John

  Way to the Stars, The (1945)

  Way We Were, The (1973)

  Weaver, Pat

  Webb, Paul

  We Can’t Go Home Again (1976)

  Wedekind, Frank

  Weeds (TV series)

  Weegee

  Week-End (1967)

  Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

  Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1925)

  Weimar Republic

  Weinstein brothers

  Weir, Peter

  Welch, Joseph N.

  Weld, Tuesday

 

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