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• Issue 54 Table of Contents
  

  This is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope issue 54. We post a few selected articles from each issue on More →

• Cinema Scope 54 Editor’s Note
  

  By Mark Peranson First of all, apologies for the quality of this issue, and this editor’s note in general. I take full blame when things More →

• You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (Alain Resnais, France)
  

  By Blake Williams That Alain Resnais would endow his follow-up to his neurologically scrambled masterpiece Les herbes folles (2009) with the title You Ain’t Seen More →

• Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, US)
  

  By Quintín In one of the first scenes of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012), a black soldier stands proudly and defiantly in front of the President More →

• Exploded View: Ron Rice’s Chumlum
  

  By Chuck Stephens “Her eye saw not just beauty but incredible, delirious, drug-like hallucinatory beauty.” Jack Smith—creature on fire, ruler of lost Atlantis, and author More →

• Global Discoveries on DVD | Freebies, Purchases, Extras
  

  By Jonathan Rosenbaum One limitation of this column when it comes to overseas releases is that many (if not all) of my selections are determined More →

• Film/Art | Out of Bounds: The Formal Trajectories of Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan
  

    By Andréa Picard “You have to rack your brain to know how to film a location…You have to walk around it for a while More →

• Fire in Every Shot: Wang Bing’s Three Sisters
  

  By Thom Andersen “Films have no interest unless one finds something that burns somewhere within the shot.”—Jean-Marie Straub, Cahiers du Cinéma, October 1984, p. 34 More →

• One Horizontal, One Vertical: Some Preliminary Observations on Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster
  

  By Shelly Kraicer The good news about Wong Kar-wai’s new film is that, following the debacle that was My Blueberry Nights (2007), the good Wong More →

• An Ursine Halfabet: Denis Côté’s Vic+Flo ont vu un ours
  

  By Michael Sicinski In Denis Côté’s Bestiaire (2012), you might have really seen a bear. That’s because it took place in a zoo. As for More →

• Middlegame: An Interview with Andrew Bujalski
  

  By Phil Coldiron Here’s a human point: this little introduction to the following interview with Andrew Bujalski on the occasion of the Sundance and Berlin More →

• After-School Special: Joseph Kahn’s Detention
  

  By Adam Nayman No American filmmaker in recent years has put his money where his mouth is like Joseph Kahn, the director of music videos More →

• Passion (Brian De Palma, France/Germany)
  

  By Andrew Tracy Allow for the possibility that perspective can trump prejudice, I suppose. Eight months after seeing Brian De Palma’s Passion and thinking it More →

• Issue 53 Table of Contents
  

  This is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope issue 53. We post selected articles from each issue on the site. More →