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• Issue 57 Table of Contents
  

  This is the complete list of articles from magazine issue of Cinema Scope #57. We post selected articles from each issue on the site. For More →

• 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, US/UK)
  

  By Julian Carrington Despite frequent disclaimers that Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is “difficult to watch,” the reverence that has greeted the film’s theatrical More →

• Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, US)
  

  By Adam Nayman For a pair of authentically brand-name filmmakers, Joel and Ethan Coen have a funny thing for pseudonyms and noms de plume. It’s More →

• Redemption (Miguel Gomes, Portugal/France/Germany/Italy)
  

  By Max Nelson Miguel Gomes is in a tricky position: three features into his filmmaking career, he’s already developed a remarkably consistent and well-rounded personal More →

• Mouton (Gilles Deroo and Marianne Pistone, France)
  

  By Jay Kuehner Some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved, and Mouton (no, this isn’t another film about sheep) from first-time directors Gilles Deroo and More →

• La jalousie (Philippe Garrel, France)
  

  By Blake Williams At one point in Philippe Garrel’s La jalousie, eight-year-old Charlotte (Olga Milshtein) asks Claudia (Anna Mouglalis), the new girlfriend of her father More →

• Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland/Denmark)
  

  By Jerry White Ida marks Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski’s first feature film in Polish—the director immigrated to the UK with his parents in the ’70s, More →

• Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German, Russia)
  

  By Olaf Möller Now it’s been delivered, the last work of the late Aleksei German. On Wednesday, November 13th, 10:30 a.m., during the Festival internazionale More →

• Exploded View | The Curtis Harrington Short Film Collection
  

  By Chuck Stephens Death in a wig: it’s the central (if not always literal) trope of filmmaker extraordinaire Curtis Harrington’s haunted, horrifying, and sometimes hilarious More →

• Film/Art | In the Realm of the Senses: Mati Diop on Mille soleils
  

  By Andréa Picard “This fever is a nightly invader that strikes the patient during deep sleep. He jumps off his bed and runs to the More →

• Global Discoveries on DVD | Yes and/or No
  

  By Jonathan Rosenbaum It’s customary for this column to focus on items that I know are currently available. But sometimes there are important potential or More →

• Deaths of Cinema | The Long View: Stanley Kauffmann, 1916-2013
  

  By Andrew Tracy In a long, lovely piece he wrote in tribute to (the still-living) John Gielgud in 1977, Stanley Kauffmann took issue with Brecht’s More →

• Issue 57 Editor’s Note
  

  By Mark Peranson I haven’t had much time or energy to watch many films since late August, having been preoccupied with other fruitless, time-consuming endeavours, More →

• The Great Depression: Jerry Lewis’ Last Movies
  

  By Christoph Huber One of the highlights of the year was the great (35mm!) Jerry Lewis retrospective presented by the Viennale and the Austrian Film More →