Cinema [magazine] [June 1962] [cover: Yvette Mimieux]

Hollywood CA: James R. Silke. Very Good. [1962]. (Vol. 1, No. 2). Periodical. [some scuffing/rubbing to covers, moderate wear along spine, very slight damage at very top of spine; still a decent, clean copy]. (B&W photographs, graphics) The second issue of a publication that eventually (after some growing pains and various format changes) would become one of the leading American critical film journals of its day, producing a total of 35 issues before petering out in the mid-1970s. The editorial note on the first page indicates that the magazine was still trying to define the "selective film audience" to which it was purportedly targeted, and (like with the debut issue) its heavily photographic design overwhelms its somewhat thin editorial content. The features of this issue, such as they are, are primarily pictorial: "The Female Trilogy of Boccaccio 70" (featuring mini-profiles of Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, and Sophia Loren); a two-page spread on TARAS BULBA; a somewhat silly feature, "Noble Nancy Noble," a lame photo-parody of silent serials; a 5-page photo profile of Yvette Mimieux, basically five big closeups with minimal text; a feature on World War I movies; an interview with Curtis Harrington about his film NIGHT TIDE; a synopsis of WAR HUNT, Denis and Terry Sanders' Korean War drama; a 3-page spread (one page text, two pages photos) on CLEOPATRA, then in production; a short essay (again with lots of photos) on Brigitte Bardot, "The Tragic Mask of Bardolatry." There are brief (single-column) "previews" of 19 upcoming films. .