In this first collection of film writing from Evergreen Review, the legendary publication's important contributions to film culture are available in a single volume. Featuring such legendary writers as Nat Hentoff, Norman Mailer, Parker Tyler, and Amos Vogel, the book presents writing on the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ousmane Sembene, Andy Warhol, and others and offers incisive essays and interviews from the late 1950s to early 1970s. Articles explore politics, revolution, and the cinema; underground and experimental film, pornography, and censorship; and the rise of independent film against the dominance of Hollywood. A new introductory essay by Ed Halter reveals the important role Evergreen Review and its publisher, Grove Press, played in advancing cinema during this period through innovations in production, distribution, and exhibition. Editor Ed Halter began working on this book in 2001 with Barney Rosset, using his personal files and interviews with him as initial research.

IntroductionEd Halter 1958 The Angry Young Film MakersAmos Vogel1960Jazz on a Summer's DayJerry TallmerThe Magic Box Jerry Tallmer1967Dragtime and Drugtime, or, Film à la WarholParker TylerSomeday What You Really are is Going to Catch Up with YouMichael O'Donoghue13 ConfusionsAmos VogelThe New American Cinema: Five Replies to Amos VogelDan Talbot, Parker Tyler, Annette Michelson, Richard Schnickel, Gregory Markopoulos, with additional reply from Jonas MekasChappaquaLawrence Shainberg1968Turning the Camera into the AudienceNat HentoffNorman Mailer's Wild 90Lita EliscuWarhol's Nude RestaurantStefan S. BrechtVietnam Déjà Vu: A Film Review of Godard's La ChinoiseLita EliscuThe EdgeLita EliscuSex and Politics: An Interview with Vilgot SjömanJohn LahrThe Sixth New York Film FestivalSidney Bernard1969A Way of Life: An Interview with John CassavetesAndre S. Labarthe Lola in LA: An Interview with Jacques DemyMichel Delahaye The Day Rap Brown Became a Press Agent for ParamountAmos VogelSolanas: Film as a Political EssayLouis MarcorellesEasy Rider: A Very American ThingL.M. Kit CarsonParticipatory TelevisionNat HentoffRocha's Film as Carnival Frieda GrafeRimbaud's Desert as Seen by PasoliniWallace Fowlie 1970Mister Freedom: An Interview with William KleinAbraham SegalDestroy, She Said: An Interview with Marguerite Duras Jacques Rivette & Jean NarboniThe Man Who Lies: An Interview with Alain Robbe-GrilletTom and Helen BishopDo They or Don't They? Why It Matters So MuchParker TylerMandabi: Confronting AfricaJulius Lester Seeing America First with Andy WarholDotson Rader"It Could Only Happen in California"Dotson RaderWomen's Lib: Save the Last Dance for Me  Tom SeligsonHave You Seen It All, Dennis Hopper?L.M. Kit CarsonWoodstock: An Interview with Michael Wadleigh and Bob MauriceKent E. CarrollMucking with the RealL.M. Kit CarsonFilm and Revolution: An Interview with Jean-Luc GodardKent E. Carroll We: A Manifesto, Dziga Vertov Papatakis: Tiger in a Think-TankParker TylerHollywood's Last StandTom Seligson1971Fonda, My BuddySeymour KrimEros and the Muses Jerome TarshisThe First Annual Congress of the High Church of Hard CoreRobert CooverNews from Phyllis and Eberhard KronhausenSara DavidsonThose Homophile HusbandsParker TylerPasolini's DecameronTom Hamilton Film: Freaks and FelliniNat HentoffPerverse ChicTom Seligson1973A Transit to NarcissusNorman Mailer