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• Issue 58 Table of Contents
  

  This is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope #58. We post selected articles from each issue on the site. For More →

• Issue 58 Editor’s Note
  

  By Mark Peranson The Cinema Scope Top Ten of 2013 1. L’inconnu du lac (Alain Guiraudie) 2. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) 3. More →

• Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  

  By Blake Williams In their attempt to adapt of one of those ornery “unfilmable” novels to the big screen, Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze transformed More →

• The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, US/Germany)
  

  By Julian Carrington. “Let’s make an agreement,” declares Anjelica Huston’s estranged matriarch to her trio of wayward sons in the penultimate scene of The Darjeeling More →

• Festivals | Rotterdam: M for Mellow
  

  By Calum Marsh Dissonance was in the air in the Rotterdam. There persists, of course, a contradiction at the heart of every international film festival: More →

• Festivals | Berlin: Black Coal, Thin Ice
  

  By Shelly Kraicer There are aspects of present-day Chinese reality so bizarre that only surrealist-tinged genre films can come close to capturing them. In the More →

• Festivals | Berlin: The Forma of Things to Come
  

  By Robert Koehler Amongst the certainties of every large festival, three are more certain than the others. One, every large festival shows many bad movies. More →

• Exploded View | Ed Emshwiller’s Thanatopsis
  

  By Chuck Stephens To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language… —Thanatopsis, William Cullen More →

• Film/Art | Provenance: The Artist (Amie Siegel)
  

  By Andréa Picard When Heidegger assigned the virtue of truth to works of art, he did so while heeding to his own tastes as any More →

• Global Discoveries on DVD | Mitigating Circumstances
  

  By Jonathan Rosenbaum There’s no question that DVDs and Blu-rays are fostering new viewing habits and also new critical protocols and processes in sizing up More →

• The Conversation: Stephanie Barber’s DAREDEVILS
  

  By Max Goldberg “The only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth”—Frank O’Hara Perhaps the only rule of Stephanie Barber’s More →

• Dreams of Light: The Cinema of Amit Dutta
  

  By Max Nelson Six minutes into Nainsukh (2010), Amit Dutta’s dreamy, intoxicating tribute to the life and work of the brilliant 18th-century Indian miniaturist painter, More →

• Man from the Southwest: The Brutish Cinema of José Campusano
  

  By Quintín 3D, a charming little comedy/documentary by Rosendo Rui, recently had its international premiere in Rotterdam, and the film itself transpires at another film More →

• Paolo Sorrentino: A Medium Talent
  

  By Michael Sicinski “Medium talent!” —Bill Murray, to Chevy Chase at the end of their 1977 fistfight, backstage at Saturday Night Live 1. Not unlike More →