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RARA-AVIS: The Maltese Falcon, the criticism
On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, jkimura@nsknet.or.jp (Jiro Kimura) wrote:
>At 12:47 PM 01.30.97 -0500, E J M. Duggan wrote:
>>
>>Note on background reading: see the very useful tome edited by William
>>Luhr, *The Maltese Falcon: John Huston, director* (Rutger U. Press,
1995).
>>
>I have never heard about this book before. This William Luhr wrote
RAYMOND
>CHANDLER AND FILM in 1982, didn't he? I've gotta have this book. I will
>soon order it from my favorite mystery bookstore.
I don't know if Luhr is responsible for the Chandler book, but there is a
book with a very similar title, *Raymond Chandler on Film* by Stephen
Pendo. It's not *that* good. (it's Pendo writing about one film per
chapter, topped and tailed with a conclusion and a not-very-good
introduction)
The Luhr book on *The Maltese Falcon* is pretty good, though: it collects
together a range of material which anyone interested *TMF* may've seen some
of before, but there's a good chance that most of this stuff will be new to
most readers. A large section of the book provides a continuity script for
Huston's 1941 film. There's Rudy Behlmer's excellent article from *The
Making Of ...* and the John Naremore essay from *Literature/Film
Quarterly*. There's a few reviews of Huston's film (Agee, Bosley
Crowther), including two by Nino Frank, translated from French into
English. There're also a couple of essas about the three fillm versions of
the falcon. There's other stuff too. All in all, an indispensible work
for the falconophile.
>
>Peter Dillon-Parkin wrote:
>>
>>On a previous list I introduced myself as co-editor (with my wife) of
Crime
>>Time, a UK magazine about crime fiction.
>>
>I am buying your CRIME TIME through Gary Lovisi, the publisher-editor of
>HARDBOILED magazine, and received the first four issues of CRIME TIME.
Are
>there issues five and six out yet? It is very difficult to get these
>issues in the Far East.
Yes, issues 5 & 6 are out.
As far as availability goes, I'd say that iIt's difficult to get *Crime
Time* in the near east too ;-)
#7 has yet to arrive at Waterstones, Ipswich.
They are taking an issue at a time (apparently) and the rep hasn't been
yet, so they've not ordered issue 7! Is it the publisher/distributor or is
it Watersones?
Anyway, I reckon *Crime Time* is pretty good, and if you can get it, check
it out.
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