Richard Roud is Director of the New York Film Festival, and former programme director of the National Film Theatre and the London Film Festival. A regular contributor to [Sight and Sound], he has also written for the [New York Times], [Cahiers du Cinema], [Encore], [Encounter], etc. From 1963-70 he was film critic of the [Guardian], for which he is now Roving Arts Critic. He is the author of two volumes, [Jean-Luc Godard] and [Jean-Marie Straub], in the [Cinema One] series published by Secker & Warburg. He is now preparing a biography of the late Henri Langlois.

（摘自本書的封底介紹，他那本關於Langlois的專書叫[A Passion for Film]）

The contibutors:

Noel Burch(NB), Gary Carey(GC), Giulio Cesare Castello(GCC), Carlos Clarens(CC), Richard Combs(RC), Richard Corliss(RCor), Edgardo Cozarinsky(EC), Arlene Croce(AC), KJames Damico(JD), Jan Dawson(JDaw), Bernard Eisenschitz(BE), Jean-Andre Fiechi(JAF), John Gillett(JG), Jon Halliday(JH), Molly Haskell(MH), Andre Hodeir(AH), Penelope Houston(PH), Richard T. Jameson(RTJ), Richard Koszarski(RK), Henri Langlois(HL), Antonin J. Liehm(AJL), Gavin Millar(GM), Tom Milne(TM), James Monaco(JM), Geoffrey Nowell-Smith(GNS), Claude Ollier(CO), Enno Patalas(EP), Ted Perry(TP), Vlada Petric(VP), Antony Rayns(AR), Donald Richie(DR), Brooks Riley(BR), David Robinson(DR), Jonathan Rosenbaum(JR), Richard Roud(RR), Andrew Sarris(AS), P. Adams Sitney(PAS), Oseald Stack(OS), Elliott Stein(ES), John Russell Taylor(JRT), David Wilson(DW), Robin Wood(RW).

Robert Aldrich (AS),

Robert Altman (RW),

American Avant-Garde Cinema (PAS),

American Cinema of the 70s (RR),

American Documentary since 1960 (JM),

American Film Noir (EC),

American Screenwriter (RCor),

Lindsay Anderson and Free Cinema (JRT),

Michelangelo Antonioni (PH),

Anthony Asquith (JRT),

Claude Autant-Lara (JRT),

Avant-Garde Animation: the Graphic Cinema (PAS),

Tex Avery (JR),

Boris Barnet (JG),

BBS Production (BR),

Jacques Becker (TM),

Marco Bellocchio (RC),

Ingmar Bergman (JDaw),

Bubsy Berkeley and American Musicals of the 30s (JG),

Bernardo Bertolucci (RW),

Alessandro Blasetti (TP),

Budd Boetticher (RW),

John Boorman (JR),

Walerian Borowczyk (RC),

Frank Borzage (AS),

Herbert Brenon (JG),

Robert Bresson (RR),

British Documentary Movement (DW),

Clarence Brown (RK),

Rowland Brown (RK),

Tod Browning (ES),

Luis Bunuel (JAF),

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (JAF),

Frank Capra (ES),

Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert (RR),

John Cassavetes (RC),

Alberto Cavalcanti (DW),

Claude Chabrol (GM),

Charles Chaplin (AS),

Nenjamin Christensen (JG),

Rene Clair (JRT),

Shirley Clarke (TR),

Rene Clement and Henri-Georges Clouzot (RR),

Jean Cocteau (JRT),

Roger Corman (TR),

Vittorio Cottafavi, Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava (TM),

George Cukor (GC),

Michael Ciurtiz (JG),

Czechoslovak Cinema of the 60s (D. and ATL),

Dance in Film (AC),

Louis Delluc (JAF),

Cecil B. DeMille (CC),

Jacques Demy (GC),

Vittorio de Sica (TP),

Marlene Dietrich (CC),

Walt Disney (JR),

Stanley Donen (RCor),

Mark Donskoi (JG),

Alexander Dovzhenko (PAS),

Carl Thedor Dreyer: the Early Works (TM),

Carl Thedor Dreyer: The Major Phase (NB),

E. A. Dupont (RK),

Marguerite Duras (JM),

Allan Dwan (RR),

Sergei M. Eisenstein (NB),

Jean Epstein (JAF),

Jean Eustache (JM),

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford (JG),

Painer Werner Fassbinder (DW),

Paul Felos (JR),

Federico Fellini (JRT),

Marco Ferreri (EC),

Louis Feuillade and the Serial (RR),

Jacques Feyder (RR),

W. C. Fields (DR),

Robert Flaherty (RCor),

John Ford (RW),

Georges Franju (TM),

John Frankenheimer (RCor),

French Cinema: Origins (HL),

Samuel Fuller (GM),

Abel Gance (BE),

Greta Garbo (GC),

Philippe Garrel (TR),

German Cinema: Its Origins and Its Masters of the 20s (HL),

German Cinema Since 1945 (EP),

Jean-Luc Godard (RR),

Gone with the Wind (CC),

Jean Gremillon (BE),

David Wark Griffith (VP),

Raymond Griffith and Clarence Badger (JG),

Sacha Guitry (RR),

Robert Hamer and Ealing Comedy (JRT),

Marcel Hanoun (NB),

Howard Hawks (MH),

Werner Herzog (RC),

Alfred Hitchcock : I (PH),

Alfred Hitchcock : II (JAF),

Homg Kong Cinema (TR),

William K. Howard (JD),

John Huston (RW),

Kon Ichikawa (JG),

Thomas Harper Ince (TM),

Rex Ingram (CC),

Italian Silent Cinema (GCC),

James Ivory (DW),

Miklos Jancso and Post-War Hungarian Cinema (Mira and AJL),

Elia Kazan (JR),

Buster Keaton (DR),

Henry King (RC),

Teinosuke Kinugasa (JG),

Dimitri Kirsanof (PAS),

Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg (DR),

Robert Kramer (RR),

Stanley Kubrick (RW),

Lev Kuleshov (TM),

Akira Kurosawa (NB),

Gregory La Cava (JG),

Fritz Lang : German Period (NB),

Fritz Lang : 1936-60 (RW),

Harry Langdon (RK),

Alberto Lattuada (EC),

Charles Laughton (RW),

Laurel and Hardy (DR),

Mitchell Leisen (JG),

Paul Leni (CC),

Sergio Leone (RCor),

Marvyn Leroy (TR),

Richard Lester (RCor),

Marcel L'Herbier (NB),

Per Lindberg (EC),

Harold Lloyd (JAF),

Kenneth Loach (JM),

Joseph Losey (EC),

Ernst Lubitsch : German Period (EP),

Ernst Lubitsch : American Period (AS),

Sidney Lumet (RC),

Leo McCarey (RW),

Norman McLaren (JR),

Dusan Makavejev (RW),

Louis Malle (JM),

Rouben Mamoulian (TM),

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (RCor),

Anthony Mann (RW),

Chris Marker (RR),

The Marx Brothers (AH),

Georges Melies (DR),

Jean-Pierre Melville (TM),

Leiws Milestone (RTJ),

Vincente Minnelli and the 40s Musical (GC),

Kenji Mizoguchi (DR),

Ivan Mozhukhin (JG),

F. W. Murnau (JAF),

Mikio Naruse (DR),

Ermanno Olmi (GM),

Marcel Ophuls (DW),

Max Ophuls (JH),

Nagisa Oshima and Japanese Cinema in the 60s (NB),

Yasujiro Ozu (DR),

G. W. Pabst (EC),

Marcel Pagnol (RR),

Alan J. Pakula and Robert Mulligan (RW),

Pier Paolo Pasolini (OS),

Leonce Perret (NB),

Maurice Pialat (DW),

Lupu Pick and Carl Mayer (JAF),

Roman Palansky, Jerzy Skolimowski and the Polish Emigres (M and AJL),

Polish Cinema Since the War (M and AJL),

Abraham Polonsky (RCor),

Michael Powell (JRT),

Otto Preminger (JR),

Vsevolod Pudovkin (VP),

Nicholas Ray (JR),

Satyaji Ray (JRT),

Carol Reed and David Lean (JRT),

Karel Reisz (DW),

Jean Renoir : to 1939 (RR),

Jean Renoir : from 1939 (TM),

Alain Resnais (RR),

Leni Riefenstahl (JRT),

Jacques Rivette (JAF),

Glauber Rocha (EC),

Erci Rohmer (MH),

Mikhail Romm (DW),

Abram Room (RR),

Francesco Rosi (TP),

Roberto Rossellini (RW),

Robert Rossen (EC),

Jean Rouch (JAF),

Ken Russell (RW),

Ernst Schoedsack and Merian Cooper (ES),

Mack Sennett (JAF),

Vincent Sherman (JG),

Don Siegel (RW),

Robert Siodmak (JRT),

douglas sirk (JH),

Alf Sjoberg (EC),

Victor Sjsostrom (TM),

Michael Snow (JR),

Yulia solntseva (JR),

Soviet Cinema Since the War (DR),

John M. Stahl (AS),

Josef von sternberg (CO),

Georges Stevens (EC),

Mauritz Stiller (RC),

Jean-Marie Straub (RR),

Jean-Marie Straub (JAF),

Erich von Stroheim (JR),

Preston Sturges (PH),

Swiss Cinema (JM),

Jacques Tati (JAF),

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (RR),

Jacques Tourneur (RW),

Maurice Tourneur (RK),

Francois Truffaut (JM),

Agnes Varda (RR),

Dziga Vertov (JAF),

King Vidor (RC),

Jean Vigo (GM),

Luchino Visconti (GNS),

Raoul Walsh (EC),

Orson Welles (PH),

William Wellman (RC),

Wim Wenders (JDaw),

Mae West (CC),

Roland West (ES),

James Whale (JRT),

Bo Widerberg and Swedish Cinema Since 1960 (EC),

Billy Wilder (GM),

Robert Wise (JRT),

William Wyler (AS),

Krzysztof Zanussi (JM).

(打完纔發現，還是有一些不認識的導演...）