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STRANGELOVE BILLY WILDER STANLEY KUBRICK THE SEVENTH SEAL INGMAR BERGMAN IT’S A WONDERFUL METROPOLIS LIFE SOME LIKE IT HOT FRITZ LANG FRANK CAPRA BILLY WILDER DK LONDON produced for DK by First American Edition, 2016 TALL TREE LTD Published in the United States by SENIOR EDITORS DK Publishing 345 Hudson Street Sam Atkinson, Georgina Palffy EDITORS New York, New York 10014 PROJECT ART EDITOR Rob Colson,Camilla Hallinan, Saffron Stocker David John, Kieran Macdonald Copyright © 2016 Dorling Kindersley Limited, DK EDITORS DESIGN a Division of Penguin Random House LLC Stuart Neilson, Helen Ridge Ben Ruocco, Ed Simkins 16 17 18 19 20 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 US EDITORS DK DELHI 001—274827—Jan/2016 Margaret Parrish, Jane Perlmutter DESIGNER PROJECT EDITOR All rights reserved. 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He has written about movies and television for Radio Times, Since 2010, he has cohosted BBC Television’s long- the FILMCLUB website, and various licensed publications, running Film program, as well as writing and hosting and once traveled in the footsteps of Peter O’Toole’s documentaries for BBC TV and radio. He has also worked Lawrence of Arabia for Esquire magazine. He has been in film education and programming. Danny has written in love with British cinema since he first saw Black two novels, The Greatest Gift and The Monsters of Narcissus on a big screen at university, and is proud Gramercy Park.  to have made a tiny contribution by writing and codirecting The Lights (2015), a short film produced LOUIS BAXTER in association with the BFI and Film London.  DAMON WISE Louis Baxter started watching and writing about movies as a boy, making his way through his parents’ VHS collection and staying up until 3 a.m. to watch horror movies. He started A movie writer since 1987, Damon Wise is a Contributing his own movie blog and contributed to many others before Editor with Empire magazine and an advisor to the BFI studying film at Westminster University, London. He has London Film Festival’s Thrill strand. As a journalist, his since developed screenplays for a movie company and worked features, interviews, and reviews have been published in as a freelance writer and critic, specializing in horror movies. many notable UK magazines and newspapers. In addition to covering set visits and junkets, he is a regular attendee at JOHN FARNDON key international film festivals. In 1998, he published his first book, Come by Sunday, a biography of British movie star Diana Dors. John Farndon is a Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and an author, playwright, composer, and poet. He taught the history of drama at the Actors Studio, studied playwriting at Central School of Speech and Drama, and is now Assessor for new plays for London’s OffWestEnd Theatre Awards. He has also written many international best-sellers such as Do You Think You’re Clever? and translated into English verse the plays of Lope de Vega and the poetry of Alexander Pushkin. CONTENTS 10 INTRODUCTION 35 Has God promised 52 To a new world of you things? gods and monsters! The Passion of Joan of Arc The Bride of Frankenstein VISIONARIES 1902–1931 36 Falling in love again, 53 Magic mirror on the wall, never wanted to who is the fairest one of all? The Blue Angel Snow White and the 20 Labor omnia vincit Seven Dwarfs A Trip to the Moon 37 If I were you, I’d make a bit of a scene 54 I’ve a feeling we’re not 22 Out of the cradle People on Sunday in Kansas anymore endlessly rocking The Wizard of Oz Intolerance 38 Tomorrow the birds will sing 60 Everybody has 24 I must become Caligari! City Lights their reasons The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari The Rules of the Game 28 What are we waiting for? A GOLDEN AGE IN 62 Tomorrow is another day Battleship Potemkin Gone with the Wind BLACK AND WHITE 30 This song of the Man 64 You’re wonderful, in a 1931–1949 and his Wife is of no loathsome sort of way place and every place His Girl Friday Sunrise 46 Don’t want to, 66 It isn’t enough to tell us 32 Those who toiled knew but must! what a man did. You’ve nothing of the dreams M got to tell us who he was of those who planned Citizen Kane Metropolis 48 Will you marry me? Did he leave you any money? 72 Of all the gin joints in all 34 If you say what you’re Answer the second the towns in all the world, thinking, I’ll strangle you question first she walks into mine Steamboat Bill, Jr. Duck Soup Casablanca 49 Don’t be alarmed, ladies 76 How dare you call me and gentlemen, those a ham? chains are made of To Be or Not to Be chrome steel King Kong 78 It’s hot in here by the stove Ossessione 50 War is declared! Down with monitors 79 How singularly innocent and punishment! I look this morning Zero de Conduite Laura 132 When I’m better, we’ll FEAR AND WONDER go and look at the trains again 1950–1959 Pather Panchali 108 We all want to forget 134 Get me to that bus stop something, so we and forget you ever saw tell stories me Kiss Me Deadly Rashomon 135 That’ll be the day 114 I am big. It’s the pictures The Searchers that got small Sunset Boulevard 136 I have long walked by your side The Seventh Seal 116 I have always relied on the kindness of strangers 140 If I do what you tell me, A Streetcar Named Desire will you love me? 80 A kick in the rear, if well Vertigo delivered, is a sure laugh 118 It’s a hard world for Children of Paradise little things 146 What did you do during The Night of the Hunter the uprising? 84 Children believe what Ashes and Diamonds we tell them 122 What’s the first thing an La Belle et la Bête actor learns? “The show 148 Well, nobody’s perfect must go on!” Some Like It Hot 86 This is the universe. Singin’ in the Rain Big, isn’t it? 150 Your parents say you’re A Matter of Life and Death 126 Let’s go home always lying Tokyo Story The 400 Blows 88 George, remember no man is a failure 128 When I was a kid, I used who has friends to see men go off on these REBEL REBEL It’s a Wonderful Life kind of jobs—and not 1960–1974 come back 94 I mind my own business, The Wages of Fear I bother nobody, and what do I get? Trouble 129 But if we don’t use your 160 You are the first woman The Bicycle Thief device against Godzilla, on the first day of creation what are we going to do? La Dolce Vita 98 It is so difficult to make a Godzilla neat job of killing people 166 Don’t use the brakes. Cars with whom one is not on 130 Just wait until you see are made to go, not to stop friendly terms your mother. She’s never À bout de souffle Kind Hearts and Coronets looked so radiant All That Heaven Allows 168 That’s what all these 100 The world doesn’t make loony laws are for, to be any heroes outside of 131 I don’t think that I want broken by blokes like us your stories to learn that way Saturday Night and The Third Man Rebel Without a Cause Sunday Morning 170 I have never stayed so 196 They see a free individual, ANGELS AND long anywhere it’s gonna scare ’em Last Year at Marienbad Easy Rider MONSTERS 172 This is the story of a man 198 Are you fond of meat? 1975–1991 marked by an image Le Boucher from his childhood La jetée 200 Some day, and that day 228 You’re gonna need a bigger may never come, I will boat Jaws 173 Guy, I love you. You smell call upon you to do a of gasoline service for me 232 There’s some questions The Umbrellas of Cherbourg The Godfather got answers and some haven’t 174 There’s gold in the 206 That man is a head taller Picnic at Hanging Rock sea beyond than me. That may change Black God, White Devil Aguirre, the Wrath of God 234 Someday a real rain will come 176 Gentlemen, you can’t 208 The guests are here, sir Taxi Driver fight in here. This is the The Discreet Charm of War Room! the Bourgeoisie 240 I lurve you, you know? Dr. Strangelove I loave you. I luff you. 210 Did you really see her? Two ‘F’s 180 I can’t seem to stop Don’t Look Now Annie Hall singing wherever I am The Sound of Music 214 You can talk to him 242 The Force is strong whenever you want. with this one 182 It’s difficult to start Just close your eyes Star Wars a revolution and call him The Battle of Algiers The Spirit of the Beehive 243 You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, 188 Who wants to be 216 You know what happens do you? an angel? Chelsea Girls to nosy fellows? Alien Chinatown 189 Let’s see the sights! 244 It’s so quiet out here. It Playtime 222 And we’ll buy ourselves is the quietest place in a little piece of heaven the world 190 This here’s Miss Bonnie Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Stalker Parker. I’m Clyde Barrow. We rob banks 248 You have to have good Bonnie and Clyde men. Good men, all of them Das Boot 192 I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that 250 I’ve seen things you 2001: A Space Odyssey people wouldn’t believe Blade Runner 194 We’re gonna stick together, just like it 256 I can’t figure out if you’re used to be a detective or a pervert The Wild Bunch Blue Velvet