His chapters on ten filmmakers of the 1970s are therefore not based on personal memories of the era nor evidently on scrupulous research designed to plug the gaps: the book is guilty of the occasional factual error.
Mr Evans's excellent book is marred only by the occasional editing error (ORAF, the Organisation of the French Algerian Resistance, exists only as an acronym, and Mr Evans, when talking of the founding members of the European Economic Community, omits the Netherlands).