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.