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Kauffmann, Stanley Jules was born on April 24, 1916 in New York City. Son of Joseph H. and Jeannette (Steiner) Kauffmann.
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In this engaging collection, Stanley Kauffmann comments on a broad range of films, including Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise, Oliver Stone's JFK, Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette, Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, and Federico Fellini's Intervista.
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For over four decades, Stanley Kauffmann's skilled, cultivated, and impassioned film reviews in the New Republic have guided filmgoers and charted the development of the cinema arts. Over the course of his distinguished career, he has been an independent voice in film criticism, challenging preconceptions, skewering pretensions, and championing a wide diversity of films, from Hollywood blockbusters to overlooked gems. In his latest collection of film writings, Kauffmann discusses the most influential, exciting, and innovative films released since 1993, as well as less successful -- sometimes disastrous -- efforts. From major films by established Hollywood directors (Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and Oliver Stone's Nixon) to works from the iconoclastic world of independent American film (Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men and David O. Russell's Spanking the Monkey) to the best of world cinema (Abbas Kiarostami's A Taste of Cherry and Erick Zonca's The Dreamlife of Angels), Kauffmann offers his lively and considered views of over sixty films. In other essays, he compares cinematic adaptations of Mozart's operas, explores changing public attitudes toward film as an art form, assesses the possibilities of accurately dramatizing the Holocaust, and recalls the careers of such important figures in film history as David Lean, Billy Wilder, and Akira Kurosawa. A model of provocative writing about the liveliest art, Regarding Film will delight ardent movie lovers everywhere.
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This book includes essays on Shaw, Shakespeare, and the European theatre of the twentieth century. Stanley Kauffmann is considered by many to be the most important drama critic we have produced since Eric Bentley.
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Grateful acknowledgment is given to the following: Channel 13WNDT for Falstaff from the program The Art of Film produced on A pril 5, 1967. Salamagundi for AY ear with Blow-U p: Some Notes appearing in the Spring Summer 1968 issue. The New York Times for Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Copyright 1966 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission. Liveright Publishing Corp. for the lines on page 226 from Chaplinesque from The Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose of Hart Crane. Copyright 1933, 1958, 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corp., New York. Reprinted by permission. FIGURES OF LIGHT. Copyright 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 by Stanley Kauffmann. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of A merica. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except hi the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address Harper Row, Publishers, I nc., 49 East 33rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10016. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry Whiteside Limited, Toronto. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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(In his fourth collection of film writings, Stanley Kauffm...)
In his fourth collection of film writings, Stanley Kauffmann, distinguished film critic of the New Republic and theater critic of Saturday Review, once again shows himself to be one of our most intelligent and perceptive commentators on the cinema. Before My Eyes covers the years 1974 through 1979, years that produced works as diverse as Manhattan, Effi Briest, Nashville, 1900, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. While this period may not have seen the emergence of directors with the stature of an Antonioni, a Bergman, or a Kurasawa, a number of remarkable reputations, notes Kauffmann have been made. Among the many fills reviewed here are those of the artists of the new German Cinema (Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders), the chronically promising but frustrating group of young American directors (Spielberg, Coppola, Mazursky), directors whose styles and subjects have provoked fierce controversy (Bertolucci, Altman, Wertmuller) and, of course, the most recent projects of recognized masters (Fellini, Bergman). Other essays deal with the appreciation of classics such as Roman Holiday and 8 1/2, critiques of a number of recent film books, and the careers of two exceptional actors, Charles Chaplin and Sir John Gielgud.
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Ticknor & Fields, 1980, Very good., Clean, tight, in dust jacket. 229 pages. Light wear. Short remainder mark on bottom edge. Film, Theatre, Memoirs Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
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Stanley Kauffmann is the theater critic of Saturday Review and was theater critic of The New York Times and The New Republic. He has received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, as well as the Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller fellowships. He teaches at the Yale School of Drama and in the Theater Department of the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Kauffmann, Stanley Jules was born on April 24, 1916 in New York City. Son of Joseph H. and Jeannette (Steiner) Kauffmann.
New York University; City University of New New York
Kauffmann started with The New Republic in 1958 and contributed film criticism to that magazine for the next fifty-five years, publishing his last review in 2013. He had one brief break in his New Republic tenure, when he served as the drama critic for the New York Times for eight months in 1966. He worked as an acquisitions editor at Ballantine Books in 1953, where he acquired the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.
Several years later, while working as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf in 1959 he discovered a manuscript by Walker Percy, The Moviegoer.
Kauffmann was a long-time advocate and enthusiast of foreign film, helping to introduce and popularize in America the works of directors such as Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Yasujiro Ozu. He inspired and influenced younger film and cultural critics such as Roger Ebert and David Denby.
Kauffmann was also a professor of English, Drama, and Film at City University of New York (1973-1976) and also taught at the Yale School of Drama. Kauffmann was featured in the 2009 documentary Foreign the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism where he was shown discussing the beginnings of film criticism in America, and noting the important contributions of poet Vachel Lindsay, who grasped that "the arrival of film was an important moment in the history of human consciousness".
Kauffmann attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and New York University where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1935, and was an actor and stage manager with the Washington Square Players.
Kauffmann married Laura Cohen in 1943, and they remained together until Cohen"s death in 2012. They did not have children. Kauffmann died of pneumonia at Saint Luke"s Hospital in Manhattan on October 9, 2013, aged 97.
( In this engaging collection, Stanley Kauffmann comments...)
(In his fourth collection of film writings, Stanley Kauffm...)
( For over four decades, Stanley Kauffmann's skilled, cul...)
(Grateful acknowledgment is given to the following: Channe...)
( Stanley Kauffmann is the theater critic of Saturday Rev...)
(This book includes essays on Shaw, Shakespeare, and the E...)
(A collection of 131 review of films which originally appe...)
(First edition bound in blue cloth with red and silver blo...)
(Ticknor & Fields, 1980, Very good., Clean, tight, in dust...)
(1966, Paperback, 437 pages)
(Essays on theater.)
Married Laura Cohen, February 5, 1943.