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• Issue 56 Table of Contents
  

  This is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope issue 56. We post a few selected articles from each issue on the site. More →

• Global Discoveries on DVD | Monuments, Documents, and Diversions
  

  By Jonathan Rosenbaum A note to readers of jonathanrosenbaum.com: from now on please go to jonathanrosenbaum.net. 1. IL CINEMA RITROVATO (Bologna) DVD AWARDS 2013 X edition Jurors: More →

• A Truck Full of Turkeys: Thoughts on Joaquim Pinto’s What Now? Remind Me
  

  By Francisco Ferreira Where do films come from? I won’t fixate too long on this question, as no one is qualified to answer it. There More →

• Exploded View: Will Hindle’s Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos…
  

  …and the Eastern Europe Fetus Taxing Japan Brides in West Coast Places Sucking Alabama Air By Chuck Stephens “The most memorable sequence of [Chinese] Firedrill, More →

• Shine a Light: Ben Rivers and Ben Russell’s A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
  

  By Michael Sicinski With its very title, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness is a film that announces itself as being in league with More →

• The Beauty of Horror and the Horror of Beauty: An Encounter with Albert Serra
  

  By Mark Peranson “It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is More →

• Temps mort: Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
  

  By Andrew Tracy “I’m sick of it—these zombies, what they’ve done to the world, their fear of their own imaginations,” laments the vampiric Adam (Tom More →

• Master Shots: Tsai Ming-liang’s Late Digital Period
  

  By Blake Williams The title of Tsai Ming-liang’s tenth feature Stray Dogs bears a fairly conspicuous resemblance to a key metaphor from Laozi’s 6th-century Chinese More →

• Pilgrim’s Progress: Manakamana
  

  By Jay Kuehner Pilgrimage is premised on the idea that the sacred is not entirely immaterial, but that there is a geography of spiritual power. More →

• The End of Cinema: La última película
  

  By Phil Coldiron What comes at the end of cinema? Not what comes after cinema—a good question for marketing gurus like Spielberg and Lucas and More →

• Women Under the Influence: Hong Sangsoo’s Nobody’s Daughter Haewon & Our Sunhi
  

  By Jordan Cronk As an agent for acclimation, alcohol is one of our most proven resources. In the cinema of Hong Sangsoo, it’s less a More →

• A Liar’s Autobiography: The Return of Alejandro Jodorowsky
  

  By Quintín More than 800,000 people follow Alejandro Jodorowsky on Twitter. Every day these lucky people get a couple of dozen pearls of wisdom (in More →

• Athens Decathlon: TIFF 2013 City to City
  

  By Adam Nayman You can probably trace the idea—or at least the exact etymology—of the so-called “Greek Weird Wave” back to a 2011 Guardian article More →

• Black, White, and Giallo: Forzani & Cattet’s The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears
  

  By Jason Anderson Any viewer in need of a primer on the semiotics of the giallo film will be well-served by the opening moments of More →