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Amos Vogel (review date May-June 1987)

SOURCE: "Two Iconoclastic Originals," in Film Comment, Vol. 23, No. 3, May-June, 1987, pp. 6, 8.

[Vogel is an American film critic and educator who has long been a champion of American avant-garde cinema. His extensive writings on film include the book Film as a Subversive Art (1974). In the following excerpt from a review in which he discusses Street of Crocodiles and Masahi Yamamoto's Robinson's Garden (1987), he presents an overview of the film and the Quays' career.]

Radical contents and an aggressive honesty are … found in the works of writer Bruno Schulz and the Quay brothers. A young Polish Jew, Schulz was killed by the Gestapo in 1942, aborting a career that might have ranked with Kafka's. In 1986, two American-born twins, the Quay brothers, working in England, transformed Schulz' most famous story, The Street of Crocodiles (in Philip Roth's Writers from the...

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1. Introduction
2. ∗Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Mark Le Fanu (essay date Spring 1984)
   2. Tony Rayns (review date June 1986)
   3. The Brothers Quay with Chris Petit (interview date June 1986)
   4. Julian Petley (review date June 1986)
   5. Raymond Durgnat (review date June 1986)
   6. Michael O'Pray (review date June 1986)
   7. Peter Greenaway (review date Summer 1986)
   8. Richard Combs (review date July 1986)
   9. Roger Noake (review date July 1986)
   10. Vincent Canby (review date 29 April 1987)
   11. David Edelstein (review date 5 May 1987)
   12. Amos Vogel (review date May-June 1987)
   13. Terrence Rafferty (essay date June 1987)
   14. Georgia Brown (review date 2 April 1991)
   15. Jonathan Romney (essay date March 1992)
   16. Jonathan Romney (review date May 1992)
   17. Denise Tilles (essay date January 1993)
   18. Michael Atkinson (essay date September-October 1994)
   19. The Brothers Quay with Ryan Deussing (interview date 9 February 1996)
   20. Stephen Holden (review date 13 March 1996)
   21. J. Hoberman (review date 19 March 1996)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright