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Lean, David,
192

Legrand, Michel,
109

Leigh, Janet,
86
–
94
,
112
–
13
,
132
,
133

Leigh, Vivien,
190

Letter, The
,
8

Letter from an Unknown Woman
,
38

Lettieri, Al,
169

Lewis, Damian,
157

Lincoln
,
105

Lincoln, Abraham,
105
,
106
,
116

Lindström, Jörgen,
225
–
6

Lives of Others, The
,
38

Lloyd, Harold,
114

Locke
,
39
–
41
,
55
,
82
,
83
,
174

Lolita
,
143

London,
15
,
40
,
46
,
58
,
69

London National Film Theatre,
58
,
153
,
220

Lone Ranger, The
,
172
,
173

looping,
136

Lord of the Rings
,
199

Lorre, Peter,
25
–
7

Losey, Joseph,
52

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
,
32

Lowe, Rob,
222
–
3

Lubitsch, Ernst,
8
,
57

Lucas, George,
170

Lugosi, Bela,
135

Lumière, Auguste and Louis,
19
–
20
,
204

Lynch, David,
55
,
118
,
137

M
,
24
–
7
,
53

MacDonald, Jeanette,
135

Mafia,
26
,
51
,
182
,
203

Magnificent Ambersons, The
,
111
,
120
,
134

Magnolia
,
4
,
37
,
55
,
153
,
154
,
187

Mailer, Norman,
32

Malick, Terrence,
56
,
111
–
12

Malle, Louis,
179

Maltese Falcon, The
,
4
,
8

Mamoulian, Rouben,
191

Man Escaped, A
,
139
–
40

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.,
191

Mann, Anthony,
171

Mann, Michael,
23

Man of the West
,
50
,
106

Man's Castle
,
201

Mantel, Hilary,
150

Margin Call
,
149

Marsh, Mae,
116
,
117

Marvin, Lee,
38

Marx Brothers,
143

Mason, James,
101
,
143

matching cut,
114

Mature, Victor,
15

Mayo, Virginia,
52
,
54

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
,
50
,
153

McCarthy, Joseph,
63

McCrea, Joel,
7

McLuhan, Marshall,
33

McQueen, Steve,
142
,
205
,
206

Mean Streets
,
170

Mears, Martha,
141
,
142

Meet John Doe
,
30
,
31
,
36
,
106

Meet Me in St. Louis
,
8
,
29
–
30

Melancholia
,
56

Méliès, Georges,
19
–
20

Melville, Herman,
46

Method,
196

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM),
29
,
114
,
165
,
166
,
221

Metropolis
,
24

Midnight
,
143

Midnight Cowboy
,
53

Mildred Pierce
,
198

Miller, Arthur,
Death of a Salesman
,
59
–
60

Miller's Crossing
,
177

Million Dollar Baby
,
54

Mineo, Sal,
80
,
84

Minnelli, Vincente,
8
,
29
,
165
,
166
,
171

Miss Julie
,
113

Missouri Breaks, The
,
218

Mitchum, Robert,
53

Mizoguchi, Kenji,
55

Mommie Dearest
,
155
,
198
–
9

Monet, Claude,
42
–
5

money,
188
–
203
,
217

Monroe, Marilyn,
67
,
190
,
224

Montana, Lenny,
169

Moore, Michael,
212

Moorehead, Agnes,
120
,
121

Moreau, Jeanne,
109
–
10
,
136
,
208

Morocco
,
106
,
135

Morris, Errol,
212
,
213
,
214

Mortensen, Viggo,
73
–
4

Most Violent Year, A
,
149

movement,
101
–
2

movies,
3
–
12
; cinematic information,
77
–
94
; cut,
108
–
27
; directors,
160
–
73
; document and dream,
204
–
19
; early sound,
129
–
30
,
134
–
5
,
137
; editing,
108
–
27
; of 1890s,
19
–
20
,
204
–
5
; first vs. repeated viewings of,
42
–
58
; format on TV screen,
79
–
80
,
221
–
3
; framing,
77
–
94
; fun,
3
–
12
; heroes,
174
–
87
; money,
188
–
203
; of 1910s–20s,
20
–
1
,
117
,
118
,
121
,
129
–
30
,
134
,
200
–
201
; of 1930s,
4
,
24
–
7
,
51
,
134
,
197
,
201
–
2
; of 1940s,
7
–
9
,
13
–
14
,
28
–
31
,
51
,
99
,
109
,
223
; of 1950s,
14
–
15
,
31
–
2
,
38
,
52
–
4
,
62
–
8
; of 1960s,
4
,
31
,
69
–
73
,
86
–
94
,
109
,
120
,
152
–
3
,
177
–
80
,
190
–
2
; of 1970s,
125
–
6
,
132
,
168
–
70
; screens,
13
–
27
; shot,
95
–
107
; silent era,
24
,
128
–
30
,
134
,
140
,
172
; solitude,
28
–
41
; sound,
128
–
44
; story,
145
–
59
; terminology,
9
–
10
; watching,
5
–
12
; watching and seeing,
59
–
76
.
See also specific movies and genres

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
140
,
149

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
,
36
,
201

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
,
36
,
201

Mulholland Dr.
,
55
,
119
,
137

Muni, Paul,
105
–
6
,
144

Murch, Walter,
139
,
169

Murder, She Wrote
,
151

music,
82
,
91
,
109
,
110
,
119
,
128
–
33
,
139
,
140
–
2
,
169

musicals,
29
–
30
,
34
–
5
,
141
,
165
–
8

My Man Godfrey
,
143
,
201
–
2

Nanook of the North
,
21

narrative,
145
–
59

Nashville
,
154

Nazism,
8
–
9
,
12
,
19
,
21
,
22
,
26
,
27
,
68
,
71
,
125
,
210
,
212
,
213

negatives, film,
56

newsreels,
29
,
30
,
210

Nicholson, Jack,
153

Night and Fog
,
210

Night Will Fall
,
9

No Country for Old Men
,
55

Nolan, Christopher,
200

North by Northwest
,
122
,
123
,
131

Notorious
,
39

Novak, Kim,
65
,
88
,
122

Nykvist, Sven,
220
,
221

Nyong'o, Lupita,
205
,
206

Obama, Barack,
183

Odd Man Out
,
143
–
4

offscreen space,
104

Olivier, Laurence,
8
,
19

Olympia
,
68

On Dangerous Ground
,
80
,
131

Ondra, Anny,
130

On the Waterfront
,
196

Ophüls, Max,
54
,
55
,
101
–
2
,
109
,
212

Our Daily Bread
,
125
,
201

Out of the Past
,
6
,
74

Ozu, Yasujiro,
81
–
2
,
126

Pacino, Al,
18
,
21
,
23
,
169

Palm Beach Story, The
,
143

Palme d'Or,
208

Pan, Hermes,
167
–
8

Paramount Pictures,
131
,
168
,
169

Paris,
19
,
83
,
155
,
204

Passenger, The
,
153

Passion of Joan of Arc, The
,
38

Patinkin, Mandy,
158

Pawlikowski, Pawel,
163

Peckinpah, Sam,
180

Pelican Brief, The
,
184

Penn, Arthur,
179

Penn, Sean,
112

Perils of Pauline
,
20

Perkins, Anthony,
48
,
91
,
133

Persona
,
4
,
6
,
55
,
218
–
19
,
220
–
8

Personal Best
,
138

Pesci, Joe,
55
–
6

Pfeiffer, Michelle,
193

photographs,
95
–
8
,
105
–
7

Piano, The
,
68

Picasso, Pablo,
Guernica
,
119

Pierrot le Fou
,
55
,
58
,
155
,
227
–
8

Pike, Rosamund,
100
,
101

Pilecki, Witold,
71

Pitt, Brad,
79

Place in the Sun, A
,
141
,
155

Point Blank
,
38

Poland,
151
–
2
,
163

Polley, Sarah,
214
,
215

Polonsky, Abraham,
143

Ponting, Herbert,
20

pornography,
126
,
178

Powell, Eleanor,
58
,
223

Powell, Michael,
8
,
166

Powell, William,
201

Preminger, Otto,
8
,
99
–
100
,
171

Pretty Woman
,
193
–
4
,
199

projectors and projectionists,
15
,
17

Providence
,
154

Psycho
,
27
,
39
,
86
–
94
,
112
–
13
,
120
,
122
,
130
–
3
,
153
–
4
; 1998 remake,
88
–
9
; shower scene,
93
,
112
–
13
,
126
–
7
,
132
,
133

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