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• Issue 61 Table of Contents
  

  Christian Petzold’s Phoenix, Andrei Konchalovsky’s The Postman’s White Nights, Peter Strickland on The Duke of Burgundy and more... More →

• Issue 61 Editor’s Note
  

  By Mark Peranson It’s taken an abnormally long while for me to find the will to pound out the missive this time around, due to More →

• Film/Art | Carlos Amorales, Roberto Bolaño, and Amorality Within the Avant-Garde
  

    By Andréa Picard “We dreamed of utopia and we woke up screaming.”—Roberto Bolaño, First Infrarealist Manifesto Last year, Vogue Paris published an issue devoted More →

• Global Discoveries on DVD | Conspicuously Absent or Apt to be Overlooked 
  

  By Jonathan Rosenbaum For now the truly shocking thing was the world itself. It was a new world, and he’d just discovered it, just noticed More →

• Exploded View | The George Kuchar Reader
  

  By Chuck Stephens “I make moving pictures… My dad smoked and didn’t like the movie Ben-Hur because it was lacking in simulated humping sequences. My More →

• The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, US)
  

  By Adam Nayman A semi-surprise winner of the New York Film Critics Circle’s Best First Film award, Jennifer Kent’s Sundance breakout The Babadook feels very More →

• Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund, Sweden/France/Denmark/Norway)
  

  By Angelo Muredda With all respect to David Fincher’s Gone Girl, Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure is the best formalist black comedy about marriage since Eyes More →

• Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, US)
  

  By Blake Williams First we see the ocean—again. Before introducing us to the hazy, neon-stroked nocturne with which Pynchon chose to open his “lite” novel, More →

• Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire, France)
  

  By Leo Goldsmith “I am writing you this letter from a distant land,” begins Chris Marker’s epistolary essay film-cum-travelogue Letter from Siberia (1957), establishing—from this More →

• Episode of the Sea (Van Brummelen & De Haan and the inhabitants of Urk, Netherlands)
  

  By Daniel Kasman One of the most original films at the Toronto International Film Festival, Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Hann’s ethnographic documentary Episode More →

• The Iron Ministry (J.P. Sniadecki, US/China)
  

  By Jordan Cronk Issues of transit, dispersion, and the commercial and cultural tides precipitating each successive wave of Chinese migration have preoccupied filmmakers for decades. More →

• Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie, US)
  

  By Sean Rogers The opening sequence of Nicholas Ray’s They Live by Night (1948) depicts the warmly lit faces of soon-to-be lovers Bowie (Farley Granger) More →

• Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, France/US)
  

  By Andrew Tracy “Ingmar Bergman once said that he makes a film with full consciousness that it will be shown on a screen that showed More →

• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson, Sweden)
  

  By Jason Anderson Filmmakers have a variety of reasons for enlisting non-professionals for their casts, but often what they seek is a rude, unvarnished vitality More →