Article: Old film mags never die, they just get relaunched and fade away FILM STUDIES:The cream of the cinema periodicals are suffering: `Cahiers du Cinema' is `up-dating', `Film Comment' has ousted its veteran editor, and as for `Movieline'...

Film magazines are one of the big problems in our household. "Are you really going to go on keeping them?" my wife asks. There is the spark of auto-da-fe in her eye. She nods in the extensive direction of shelves bowed beneath the gravure paper, the surface of which has nearly rubbed away from use. My Sight and Sounds, for instance. They go back to the late 1950s, and there's a treasured item - the issue for autumn 1955 - where the tattered cover is separate from the body of the magazine. But I can't let that cover go: it's Francoise Arnoul and Jean Gabin dancing together in a still I've never seen elsewhere from Renoir's French Cancan. As for the inside, it has "More Light" by Josef von ...

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