Contents L.A. Journal (by Stephen Farber); Murnau: NOSFERATU and SUNRISE (review articles by Robin Wood); Plots and Patterns: FAMILY PLOT (review article by Roger Greenspun); Two Or Three Things I Know About GASLIGHT (review article by Andrew Sarris); The Power And The Gory: TAXI DRIVER (review article by Patricia Patterson and Manny Farber); Independents: Programmers' Notes (article by Amos Vogel); In Memoriam (obituaries for Luchino Visconti and Howard Hughes, by James McCourt and Andrew Sarris); The Industry: Getting Snuffed In Boston (article by Peter Birge and Janet Maslin); Television: Yesterday, Tonight and Tomorrow (article by Brooks Riley); Meep! Meep! (article by Richard Thompson; Diary Of A Mad Cel-Washer (article by Chuck Jones); Two Faces Of Bergman (articles by Charles Michener and Samson Raphaelson); Tough Guy; an interview with James M. Cain (by Peter Brunette and Gerald Peary); Books: Four books about Jean Renoir reviewed by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Contents Journals: London-New York (by Jonathan Rosenbaum) and Australia (by Jan Dawson); Justice Is Blind - And Dirty-Minded (article by Brendan Gill); Billy Wilder - Closet Romanticist (article by Andrew Sarris); Interview: John Milius (by Richard Thompson); Three Blue Birds (article by Tag Gallagher); Pat O'Neill In All Directions (article by Mitch Tuchman); The Industry: Martyr Complexes (article by Stuart Byron); Television: CBS Goes Public - With A Vengeance (article by Robert Sklar); Bucking The System...Or Buckling Under (articles by Maurice Tourneur and King Vidor, with an introduction by Richard Koszarski); Film Noir, Life Noir (article by Peter Hankoff); A Reader's Digest Of The Avant-Garde (article by Amos Vogel); Interview: Arthur Penn (by Stuart Byron and Terry Curtis Fox); THE MISSOURI BREAKS (review article by Charles Michener); Film Apres Noir (article by Larry Gross); Britannia Waives The Rules (article by Raymond Durgnat); Books: Film reference books reviewd by Richard T. Jameson; reviews of "Movie-Mad America" and "America In The Movies" by Gerald Weales.

Contents Festival Reports: Cannes (by Mary Corliss); Berlin (by Richard Roud); Brasilia (by Brooks Riley); New York (by Charles Michener and Tony Rayns); The Pakula Parallax (article by Richard T. Jameson); Mr. Pakula Goes To Washington: an interview with Alan J. Pakula about ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (by Richard Thompson); Bank Shots (article on film financing by Stuart Byron, with an interview with two film financiers by Patrick McGilligan); DUELLE: Notes On A First Viewing (review article by Jonathan Rosenbaum); SERAIL: Eduardo de Gregorio interviewed by Jan Dawson; Independents: Reader's Digest Of Avant-Garde Film History, Part Two (by Amos Vogel); Television: Suds And Sympathy (article by Roger Ebert); The Industry: Encyclotedium (article by Stuart Byron); Kid Stuff: Francois Truffaut interview about L'ARGENT DE POCHE (by Joseph McBride and Todd McCarthy); A Family In A Ford (article about THE GRAPES OF WRATH by Janey Place); A Voyage In India (Satyajit Ray interviewed by John Hughes); Bernrad Herrmann: Music Of The Fears (article by John Broeck); Book Reviews: including a review of "The New Wave" by James Monaco.

Contents Journals: L.A. (Mitch Tuchman); Venice (Stephen Harvey); Telluride (Elliott Stein); Louis Feuillade: Maker Of Melodrama (article by Richard Roud); Francis Ford: Brother Feeney (article by Tag Gallagher); The Nostalgia Express (interviews with Vincente and Liza Minnelli and Ingrid Bergman by Gideon Bachmann); One Kind Of Dream: A MATTER OF TIME (review article by George Morris); Old Wine, New Battles: Structuralism or Humanism? (article by Robin Wood); Song For Woody (article about the making of BOUND FOR GLORY by Joseph McBride); Independents: A Reader's Digest Of The Avant-Garde, Part Three (article by Amos Vogel); Cops And Robbers: Themes And Variations (article by Tom Ryan); An Agent: Jeff Berg (interview by Richard Thompson); New York Film Festival (reports by James McCourt and Elliott Stein); Middle Chabrol (article by Peter Harcourt); Stephanie Rothman: A Feminist On Poverty Row (article by Terry Curtis Fox); My Favourite Films/Texts/Things (a poll conducted by Jonathan Rosenbaum); Book Reviews: three John Ford books and "The Oxford Companion To Film".