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cinematography and lighting in, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 14.1, 14.2, 34.1, 36.1, 41.1
documentary, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 18.1, 20.1, 26.1, 28.1, 29.1, 31.1, 36.1, 39.1, 41.1, epl.1
editing of, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1, 13.2, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 29.1, 32.1, 32.2, 34.1, 34.2, 35.1, 37.1, 37.2, 38.1, 40.1
father-son theme in
first feature, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 38.1, 38.2
homage in, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 22.1, 22.2, 25.1
humor in, 2.1, 16.1, 25.1, epl.1
improvisatory acting in, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1
MS’s storyboard drawings for, itr.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2, 24.1, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 34.1, 36.1
range and intensity of, itr.1, 4.1, 41.1, 41.2
unsettling and open-ended quality of
use of color in, 27.1, 33.1, 34.1
use of music in, 2.1, 9.1, 10.1, 19.1, 27.1, 32.1, 38.1, 38.2
violence and brutality in, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 24.1
working relations of actors and MS in, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 34.1, 35.1, 36.1, 41.1, 41.2
see also specific films
Scorsese, Tony (uncle)
Scorsese on Scorsese
Scott, Lizabeth
Searchers, The, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 38.1, 38.2, 39.1
Seeger, Pete, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3
Sellers Peter
Selznick, David O.
Senso
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of
Set-Up, The
Seven
Seventh Seal, The, 1.1, 2.1, 41.1
sexual revolution, 6.1, 29.1
Shadows, 2.1, 5.1, 11.1, 29.1
Shakespeare, William, 1.1, 4.1, 14.1
Shane, 1.1, 2.1
Shanghai Gesture, The
Shearer, Moira, 2.1, 39.1
Shearing, George
Sheen, Martin, 29.1, 32.1, 35.1, 35.2, 36.1
Shepherd, Cybill, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Sheridan, Jim
Shine a Light
Shining, The
Shoeshine, 1.1, 5.1
Shore, Howard
Show Business
Shutter Island, itr.1, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 32.1, 35.1, 38.1, 41.1
cast of, 12.1, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 31.4, 31.5, 31.6, 31.7, 36.1, 41.1
psychological content of, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 31.4, 31.5, 39.1, 41.1
Sicily, 1.1, 1.2, 11.1, 20.1, 34.1
Siegel, Don, 26.1, 38.1
Siegfried and Roy
Silence, 18.1, 27.1, 31.1, 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 41.4, epl.1
Silver, Casey
Silver Chalice, The, 4.1, 18.1
“Silver Tongued Devil”
Sinatra, Frank, 28.1, epl.1
Sinclair, John
“Sing, Sing, Sing”
Singin’ in the Rain
Sirk, Douglas, 1.1, 34.1
Sisters of Mercy, 1.1, 1.2
Sistine Chapel
slavery
Sly and the Family Stone
Smiles of a Summer Night
Smith, Al
Smith, Arthur “Guitar”
Smith, Lois
Snow, Edgar
Soglow, Otto
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Sometimes Sweet Susan
Sopranos, The, 20.1, 24.1
South Bank Show, The
Southerner, The
Spector, Phil
Spielberg, Steven, 1.1, 3.1, 7.1, 21.1, 34.1, 39.1, 41.1
Splendor in the Grass
Stahl, John
Stanwyck, Barbara, 38.1, 41.1
Star Is Born, A
Star Wars
Stevens, George
Stewart, James, 1.1, 3.1, 12.1, 29.1, 34.1, 41.1
St. Francis College
Stone, Sharon, 23.1, 23.2
Stoney, George
Stoppard, Tom
St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 26.1
St. Patrick’s School, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1
Stravinsky, Igor
Strick, Wesley, 21.1, 21.2
“Subterranean Homesick Blues”
Sumac, Yma
Sunset Boulevard, 1.1, 7.1
Survival
Suspense Theater
Sweet Smell of Success
T
Taliban
Tammany Hall
Taplin, Jonathan, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 38.1
Tarr, Béla
Tashlin, Frank
“Taxi”
Taxi Driver, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 33.1, 37.1
De Niro in, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
MS’s direction of, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 25.1, 32.1, 32.2, 34.1, 34.2
music in, 10.1, 38.1, 38.2
reviews of, itr.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
script of, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 14.1
theme of isolation in
violence in, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 33.1
Taymor, Julie
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
Technicolor, 1.1, 3.1, 12.1, 27.1, 33.1, 33.2, 36.1, 39.1, 39.2
television, 1.1, 5.1, 15.1, 41.1
films made for, 26.1, 41.1, epl.1
films on, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 12.1, 18.1, 32.1, 34.1, 38.1
golden age of
MS’s appearances on, itr.1, 18.1, 18.2
plays on, 1.1, 5.1
Telluride Film Festival, 14.1, epl.1
Tennessee Ramblers
Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong
Terminator, The
Terra Trema, La
Thalia Theater, 1.1, 2.1
“That’ll Be the Day”
There Will Be Blood, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 30.1
Thing, The
Third Man, The, 2.1, 5.1
34th Street East Theatre
This Boy’s Life
Thompson, Lee
Three Penny Cinema
Thurber, James
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Strauss)
THX 1138
Tibetan Buddhism
Tierney, Gene, 27.1, 39.1, 39.2
Time
Tin Pan Alley, 28.1, 28.2
Tiomkin, Dmitri
“Tipitina”
Titanic
Titicut Follies
Tobacco Road
Todd, Ann
Toffenetti’s
To Have and Have Not (Hemingway)
Toll, John
Tomb of Ligeia, The
Tommy
“Toot, Toot, Tootsie”
Top Gun
Touch of Evil
Touchstone Pictures
Tourneur, Jacques, 22.1, 41.1
Townshend, Pete
Travers, Robert
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
Tribeca Film Festival
Trilogy of Life
Trip, The
Trippe, Juan, 27.1, 35.1, 35.2
Truffaut, François, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
Turner Classic Movies (TCM), 8.1, 10.1, 12.1, 41.1
TWA
Tweed, Boss
Twelve Angry Men, 9.1, 20.1, 41.1
2001
Two Weeks in Another Town
U
Ufland, Harry, 6.1, 6.2, 17.1
Ulmer, Edgar G.
Unholy Rollers
United Artists (U.A.), 1.1, 8.1, 14.1, 18.1, 38.1
United States
celebrity adulation in, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 20.1
Italian immigration to, 1.1, 1.2, 28.1
social values in, 1.1, 1.2, 15.1
United States Information Agency (USIA)
Universal Studios, 8.1, 17.1, 23.1
Up in Mabel’s Room
V
Vagabond Theater
van der Beek, Stan
Variety (film)
Variety (publication)
Vertigo
Vidor, King, 2.1, 15.1
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Vietnam War, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Virgil
Virgin Spring, The
Visconti, Luchino, 11.1, 22.1, 22.2
VistaVision, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1
Viva Las Vegas
Vogel, Amos
Vogel, Doctor
“Volare”
von Sydow, Max
W
Wadleigh, Michael, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 13.1
Wahlberg, Mark, 29.1, 32.1
Wajda, Andrzej
Wakefield, Kent, 8.1, 34.1
Walbrook, Anton
Wallace, George
Wallis, Hal
Walsh, Raoul, 7.1, 26.1, 26.2, 32.1, 34.1
Warner, Jack
Warner Bros., 2.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 10.1, 14.1, 20.1, 29.1, 29.2, 31.1, 34.1
Warners Theater
Warshow, Robert
Waters, Muddy, 13.1, 13.2
Watts, Charlie
Waverly Theatre
Wayne, John, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 36.1, 38.1
“Weight, The”
Weil, Simone
Weill, Joseph
Weinstein, Bob
Weinstein, Harvey, 7.1, 10.1, 26.1
Weintraub, Freddy, 7.1, 8.1
Welles, Orson, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 32.1, 34.1, 39.1
Wellman, William, 2.1, 4.1, 20.1, 34.1
Wellman, William, Jr.
“We’re Drifting Too Far from the Shore”
Wharton, Edith, 22.1, 22.2, 36.1
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, 5.1, 5.2
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
“What Would I Do Without You?”
“When Day Is Done”
When Knighthood Was in Flower (Caskoden)
“Whispering Trees”
“Whiter Shade of Pale, A”
White Zombie
Who, The, 7.1, 38.1
Who’s That Knocking at My Door, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 38.1, 38.2
autobiographical elements in, itr.1, itr.2, 6.1, 14.1
cast of, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1
distribution of, 6.1, 6.2
editing of, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
nude sex scene in, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Widmark, Richard, 1.1, 8.1
Wild Boys of the Road
Wilder, Billy
Wilder, Thornton
Wild River, 5.1, 32.1
William Morris Agency, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 15.1
Williams, Hank
Wilson, Michael
Winchester ’73
Winkler, Irwin, itr.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 20.1, 34.1, 37.1
Winkler, Margo, 15.1, 15.2
Winstone, Ray
Winter, Terry
Wise, Robert
Wiseguy (Pileggi), 20.1, 20.2
Wiseman, Fred
Wolf of Wall Street, The
Wood, Ed
Wood, Natalie
Wood, Ronnie, 30.1, 30.2
Woodstock, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4
Woodstock Festival
Woodward, Joanne
“Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, The” (Benjamin), 39.1, 41.1
World War I
World War II, 1.1, 5.1, 25.1, 39.1, 39.2
Written on the Wind
Wrong Man, The, 16.1, 32.1, 34.1
Wyler, William
Y
Yakuza, The
Yasgur, Max
Yates, Richard
Yeats, William Butler
Yeu-Bun Yee
Youngman, Henny
Yourcenar, Marguerite
Your Show of Shows
Z
Zanuck, Darryl, 2.1, 20.1
Zhang Yimou
Zimmerman, Paul
Zinneman, Fred
Zodiac
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard Schickel is the author, co-author, or editor of thirty-six books and the writer-director-producer of a similar number of television documentaries. Most of his work concerns filmmakers and film history.
Among his best-known books are Elia Kazan: A Biography, D. W. Griffith: An American Life, Clint Eastwood: A Biography, The Disney Version, Brando: A Life in Our Times, Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity, His Picture in the Papers, and his memoir, Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip.
His films include the epic five-hour history of Warner Bros., You Must Remember This, as well as Charlie: The Art and Life of Charles Chaplin and, most recently, The Eastwood Factor. He has also made twenty profiles of the major American directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Elia Kazan, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. His reconstruction of Sam Fuller’s The Big Red One, which restored forty-five lost minutes to the film, won many awards when it was released in 2004.
A film critic for Life and Time magazines for forty-three years, Mr. Schickel has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and was awarded an honorary degree by the American Film Institute. He has won the British Film Institute Book Prize, the Maurice Bessy Award in film criticism, the William K. Everson Award from the National Board of Review, and the Telluride Silver Medal, the latter two for his contributions to film history. He lives in Los Angeles.
ALSO BY RICHARD SCHICKEL
Clint: A Retrospective
Film on Paper
The Essential Chaplin (ed.)
Elia Kazan: A Biography
Woody Allen: A Life in Film
Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory and World War II
Matinee Idylls: Reflections on the Movies
Double Indemnity
Clint Eastwood: A Biography
Brando: A Life in Our Times
Striking Poses
Schickel on Film
D. W. Griffith: An American Life
Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity
James Cagney: A Celebration
Cary Grant: A Celebration
Another I, Another You
Harold Lloyd: The Shape of Laughter
Second Sight: Notes on Some Movies, 1965–1970
His Picture in the Papers
The Men Who Made the Movies
The Disney Version
The Stars
Table of Contents
THE DEPARTED
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
INTRODUCTION
LITTLE ITALY
CUTS AND ANGLES
THE FORD CONNECTION
OF STUDIOS AND STYLES
WASHINGTON SQUARE
TURNING PRO
WOODSTOCK/HOLLYWOOD
BOXCAR BERTHA
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