Volume 23, Number 6 · April 15, 1976
Milking the Elk
By Wilfrid Sheed
America in the Movies
by Michael Wood
Basic Books, 206 pp., $10.00
The Men Who Made the Movies
by Richard Schickel
Atheneum, 308 pp., $12.95
Life Goes to the Movies
Time-Life, 304 pp., $19.95
The Silent Clowns
by Walter Kerr
Knopf, 371 pp., $17.95
'In what sense does the US lead the world in movies? We make more of them than any other country and are I suppose more proficient technically, but have we ever turned out anything that was comparable artistically to the best German or Russian films?…The idea of establishing and exploiting the lowest common denominator of audiences has finally killed the movies.'
Review, 4461 words
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