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In the Magazine - Issue 35


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INTERVIEWS & FEATURES

Out of Time:
Notes on Marker
By Andrew Tracy

My Liverpool:
Terence Davies’ Of Time and the City
By Jason Anderson

A Lover and a Fighter: James Toback on Tyson
By Rob Nelson

Going Ballistic: Craig Baldwin’s Mock Up on Mu
By Michael Sicinski

Revelation in Rwanda: Lee Isaac Chung’s Munyurangabo
By Livia Bloom

SPOTLIGHT: CANNES 2008

40 Films x 12 Days
By Mark Peranson

El cant dels ocells
(Albert Serra, Spain/France)
By Robert Koehler

Entre les murs
By Richard Porton

Gomorrah
By Christoph Huber

Changeling
By Scott Foundas

The Headless Woman
By Quintín

Wendy and Lucy
By Dennis Lim

Tokyo Sonata, Wendy and Lucy, Le silence de Lorna
By Kent Jones

As High as the Eagles: On the Set of El cant dels ocells
By Mark Peranson

COLUMNS

Editor’s Note CS35

Global Discoveries on DVD
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Books Around: Here’s To Friends
By Olaf Möller

Film/Art: Oberhausen
By Andréa Picard

Canadiana: Jean-Daniel Lafond
By Jerry White

Books: Andrei Tarkovsky
By Bart Testa

CURRENCY

Baghead (Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, US) and Frownland (Ronald Bronstein, US)
By Rob Nelson

The Happening
By Adam Nayman


In the Magazine - Issue 34

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INTERVIEWS

As Far as the Eye Can See: Lance Hammer’s Ballast
By Tom Charity

Trainspotting Across America with James Benning
By Mark Peranson

Regarding the Pain of Others: Errol Morris on Standard Operating Procedure
By Livia Bloom

A Human Statement:
Béla Tarr on
The Man from London
By Adam Nayman

FEATURES

Welcome to the Wasteland: Wakamatsu Koji’s Radical Resistance
By Christoph Huber

Spiritual Voice, Material World: The Trouble with Sokurov’s Alexandra
By Michael Sicinski

A Minor Place: Ford at Fox By Andrew Tracy

The Iceberg Effect: Israel’s Cinema of Disengagement By Pablo Utin

Thoughts on Sad Vacation and the Post-Cinema of Aoyama Shinji
By Kohei Usuda

COLUMNS

Editor’s Note CS34

Film/Art: Michael Auder’s The Feature
By Andréa Picard

Global Discoveries on DVD By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Festivals: Sundance
By Robert Koehler
Rob Nelson

DVD Bonus:
Class Relations
By Richard Porton

Books Around
By Olaf Möller

CURRENCY

Elite Squad
By Quintín

Diary of the Dead
By Adam Nayman

Silent Light
By Jay Kuehner


In the Magazine - Issue 33

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INTERVIEWS

Band on the Run: Serge Bozon’s La France
By Mark Peranson

Me and My Shadow: Michelange Quay’s Eat, for This Is My Body
By Adam Nayman

Hey, You—Cut It Out: Brian De Palma on Redacted
By Rob Nelson

Ulrich Seidl’s Song for Europe
By Christoph Huber

FEATURES

Songs Sung Blue: The Films of Michael Robinson
By Michael Sicinski

German Dreams: Some Thoughts on Fassbinder’s Berlin and Syberberg’s Hitler
By Andrew Tracy

Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
By Shelly Kraicer

José Luis Guerín’s Point of View
By Jay Kuehner

FALL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

The Axe in the Attic
By Livia Bloom

Chop Shop
By Jason Anderson

Death in the Land of Encantos
By Robert Koehler

Encounters at the End of the World
By Jerry White

Web only

TIFF 2007: Places of Rest
By Andrew Tracy

Les amours d’Astrée et de Celadon
By Quintín

Continental, un film sans fusil
By Katherine Lawrie

Foster Child and Slingshot By Andrew Tracy

COLUMNS

Global Discoveries on DVD
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Film/Art: The Zanzibar Films
By Andréa Picard

Canadiana: The Year in Canadian Film 2007
By Steve Gravestock

Editor’s Note

DVD Bonus: Free Cinema By Daniel Stuyck

Books Around
By Olaf Möller

CURRENCY

There Will Be Blood
By Tom Charity

No Country for Old Men
By Jessica Winter

The Band’s Visit
By Jay Kuehner

Une vielle maîtresse
By Travis Mackenzie Hoover


In the Magazine - Issue 32

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INTERVIEWS

Subverting the Mo(ve)ment: James Gray on We Own the Night
By Andrew Tracy

Reigniting the Flame: John Gianvito’s Profit motive and the whispering wind
By Michael Sicinski

Trivia and Tragedy: Roy Andersson on You, The Living
By Jason Anderson

Facts Copulate with Facts and Create Fiction: A Conversation with Peter Whitehead
By James Evans

FEATURES

The Secret Sharer: Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg
By Jason McBride

The Stubborn Utopian: The Films of Alexander Kluge
By Christopher Pavsek

Suo Masayuki
By Scott Foundas

Imperial Hubris: Iraq on Screen
By Richard Porton

The Faceless and the Nameless: Korean Independent Cinema’s Hidden Secret
By Tony Rayns

Jacques Rivette and the Other Place, Track 1b
By B. Kite

Citizen Curtis: What Adam Curtis and Orson Welles Have in Common
By Quintín

COLUMNS

Editor’s Note

Global Discoveries on DVD
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Film/Art: Bruce McClure
By Andréa Picard

DVD: Index by Christoph Huber

Books Around by Olaf Möller

Canadiana: Les bons débarras by Steve Gravestock

CURRENCY

The Darjeeling Limited
By Edward Crouse

Eastern Promises
By Robert Koehler

Jim Finn’s Shining Trench
By Jay Kuehner

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters and The Simpsons Movie
By Adam Nayman

Lady Chatterley by Jessica Winter


In the Magazine - Issue 31

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INTERVIEWS

The Show Must Go On: Abel Ferrara’s Go Go Tales By Dennis Lim

Ghost Stories: Wang Bing’s Startling New Cinema
By Robert Koehler

Straightening the Picture of Africa: Chad’s Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
By Emilie Bickerton

Original Pirate Material: Twelve Rounds with William E. Jones
B
y Michael Sicinski

Trials and Tribulations: Lee Chang-dong on the Making of Secret Sunshine
By Mark Peranson

FEATURES

Regarding John Wayne
By Tom Charity

Beyond Brut: The Art of Cornel Wilde
By Andrew Tracy

Human, All Too Human: Battlestar Galactica
Re-imagined
By Christoph Huber

Hot Docs 2007: Experiments in Trusted Realities
By Brandon Wee

SPOTLIGHT

CANNES 2007

Paranoid Park, Secret Sunshine
By Mark Peranson

Import Export
By Christoph Huber

The Flight of the Red Balloon, My Blueberry Nights
By Kent Jones

4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
By Scott Foundas

Terror’s Advocate
By Richard Porton

Night Train
By Shelly Kraicer

Control
By Jason Anderson

Ploy
By Kong Rithdee

COLUMNS

Editor’s Note

Global Discoveries on DVD By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Film/Art: Pierre Bismuth
By Andréa Picard

Books Around
By Olaf Möller

CURRENCY

Knocked Up
By Jessica Winter

Rescue Dawn
By Adam Nayman

Killer of Sheep
By Andrew Tracy

Web Only

The Boss of It All
By Steve Gravestock


In the Magazine - Issue 30

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INTERVIEWS

Vulgar Moralism: Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book
By Robert Koehler

The Dark Horse: Robinson Devor on Zoo
By Rob Nelson

A Relay Race of the Week: Bong Joon-ho’s The Host By Adam Nayman

Bullet Boy: Jason Kohn and Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
By Tom Charity

FEATURES

Killing Time: The Economical Diversity of Johnnie To
By Christoph Huber

Inside/Out: A Modest Proposal Concerning William A. Wellman
By Andrew Tracy

Jacques Rivette and the Other Place: Track One
By B. Kite

Phil Solomon Visits San Andreas and Escapes, Not Unscathed: Notes on Two Recent Works
By Michael Sicinski

SPOTLIGHT

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

Sundance/ Berlin
By Mark Peranson

Sundance: Grace Is Gone, The Savages
By Scott Foundas

Rotterdam
By Jason Sanders

COLUMNS

Editor’s Note

Global Discoveries on DVD By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Film/Art: Expanding Film Festivals
By Andréa Picard

DVD Bonus: Idiocracy
By Jessica Winter

Books Around
By Olaf Möller

Canadiana: The Year in Canadian Film
By Steve Gravestock

CURRENCY

The Lives of Others
By Richard Porton

Belle toujours
By Jay Kuehner

Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
By Quintin

Zodiac
By Jason Anderson


In the Magazine - Issue 29

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Interviews

Boyfriends and Girlfriends: Hong Sang-soo on Woman on the Beach by Kevin B. Lee ONLINE

Battles of Honour and Humanity: Albert Serra’s Quixotic Experiment by Mark
Peranson, Daniel V. Villamediana, Alvaro Arroba

The Big Chill: Larry Fessenden’s The Last Winter by Adam Nayman ONLINE

No Secrets, Just Lessons: A Dialogue Between Pedro Costa and Thom Anderson on Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub


Features

Everyday People: Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation and A Scanner Darkly by Kent Jones

The Modest Pilgrim: The Austrian Films of Canadian John Cook by Olaf Möller ONLINE

Five Charming Cue Cards from Claude Chabrol’s Comedy Cabinet by Christoph Huber

Hot Docs 2006: Thinking Inside the Box by David Balzer ONLINE

All Tomorrowland’s Parties: CalArts in Motion Pictures by Robert Koehler
ONLINE


Spotlight - Festivals

Quel loro incontri by Olaf Möller ONLINE

12:08 East of Bucharest by Jay Kuehner ONLINE

Dans les villes and L’esprit des lieux by Jerry White

Fay Grim
by Daniel Cockburn

Nue propriété
by David Balzer

Our Daily Bread
by Richard Porton

Todo Todo Teros
by Robert Koehler

Windows on Monday
by Quintín


Columns

Editor’s Note ONLINE

DVD: Global Discoveries on DVD by Jonathan Rosenbaum ONLINE

Film/Art: Andy Warhol and Mika Taanila by Andréa Picard

Canadiana: Vancouver’s New Wave Reconsidered by Steve Gravestock

Festivals: Pusan by Tony Rayns


Currency

Inland Empire by Dennis Lim ONLINE

Children of Men by Tom Charity

The Departed by Andrew Tracy ONLINE


In the Magazine - Issue 28

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Interviews

*A Fine Madness: William Friedkin on Bug by Andrew Tracy ONLINE

The Magic Man: The Comic Stylings of Adam McKay by Scott Foundas

*Interviewing the Interviewer: Scott MacDonald’s Critical Cinema by Michael Sicinski ONLINE


Features

Operas for the 21st Century: Mozart’s New Crowned Hope by Christoph Huber ONLINE

*The Man Who Loved Birds: Otar Iosseliani’s Cinema of Kindness by Quintín ONLINE

Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die: The Films of Xavier Beauvois by Jay Kuehner

Silencing the Clamour of the World: Erice-Kiarostami Correspondences by Linda C. Ehrlich


Spotlight - Canadian Cinema

Towards an Understanding of a Certain Tendency of the English-Canadian Cinema: A Roundtable with Reginald Harkema, Don McKellar, Mark Peranson, and Geoff Pevere

Some Aspects of Norman McLaren by Robert Koehler ONLINE

To the Lighthouse: The Making of A Brand Upon the Brain! By Guy Maddin

The Mouse that Roared: Ron Mann on Tales of the Rat Fink by Adam Nayman ONLINE

Form and Function: Gary Burns’ and Jim Brown’s Radiant City by Tammy Stone


Columns

Editor’s Note ONLINE

DVD: Global Discoveries on DVD by Jonathan Rosenbaum ONLINE

DVD: Barbara Loden’s Wanda by Jason McBride

Film/Art: Josef Dabernig by Andréa Picard ONLINE

Books Around by Olaf Möller

Back Page: Eugène Green’s Les Signes by Scott Foundas


Currency

Babel by Andrew Tracy ONLINE

WorldTradeCenter by Tom Charity

Offside
by Jason Anderson


In the Magazine - Issue 27

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Interviews

Richard Kelly’s Revelations: Defending Southland Tales ONLINE

Domestic Violence: David Christensen’s Six Figures ONLINE

Pedro Costa: An Introduction by Mark Peranson

A Girl’s Guide to (Blowing Up) the Big Apple: Julia Loktev on Day Night Day Night by Jason Anderson.


Features

Everyday People: Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation and A Scanner Darkly by Kent Jones

The Modest Pilgrim: The Austrian Films of Canadian John Cook by Olaf Möller ONLINE

Five Charming Cue Cards from Claude Chabrol’s Comedy Cabinet by Christoph Huber

Hot Docs 2006: Thinking Inside the Box by David Balzer ONLINE

All Tomorrowland’s Parties: CalArts in Motion Pictures by Robert Koehler
ONLINE


Spotlight - Festivals - CANNES 2006

A Conspiracy of Dunces: Southland Tales, Colossal Youth by Mark Peranson ONLINE

Playing with Fire: Quinzaines des réalisateurs by Christoph Huber ONLINE

The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Richard Porton ONLINE

Flanders, Climates by Robert Koehler

Lights in the Dusk by Steve Gravestock

Shortbus by Geoff Pevere

Marie-Antoinette by Rob Nelson


Columns

Editor’s Note

Global Discoveries on DVD by Jonathan Rosenbaum ONLINE

DVD: Winter Soldier by Andrew Tracy

Film/Art: JLG in Paris by Andréa Picard ONLINE

Film/Art: Candice Breitz by Jon Davies


Currency

Strangers with Candy by Jessica Winter ONLINE

Gabrielle by Dorothy Woodend

Lunacy by Michael Sicinski


In the Magazine - Issue 26

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Interviews

A Tale from the Bucharest Hospitals: Cristi Puiu on The Death of Mister Lazarescu by Christoph Huber ONLINE

Boys Out of the Hood: Larry Clark on Wassup Rockers by Robert Koehler

School’s Out? Never!: David Bordwell Keeps Working the Room by Chuck Stephens ONLINE

London Mapping: Patrick Keiller’s Peripatetic Hybrids by Jason Anderson

Lost in Cascadia: Kelly Reichardt on Old Joy by Adam Nayman


Features

The Year in Canadian Film by Steve Gravestock

Song of Myself: Caveh Zahedi’s Cinema of Self-Exposure by Jason McBride
ONLINE

Incremental Framebusting: The Paragon Example of Lynn Marie Kirby by Michael Sicinski

The Long Gray Line: Returning to The Yards by Andrew Tracy ONLINE


Spotlight - Festivals

Sundance

*In Between Days, Old Joy by Mark Peranson

The Science of Sleep by Tom Charity ONLINE

Iraq in Fragments by Jay Kuehner

Rotterdam by Adam Nayman

Berlin by Tony Rayns


Columns

Editor’s Note

Film/Art: Chris Marker’s The Hollow Men by Andréa Picard ONLINE

Global Discoveries on DVD by Jonathan Rosenbaum ONLINE

Books Around by Olaf Moller

Back Page: Against Insight by David Bordwell ONLINE


Currency

Munich by Quintín

Neil Young: Heart of Gold by Geoff Pevere

Hostel by George Kaltsounakis ONLINE


In the Magazine - Issue 25

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Interviews

Dante’s Inferno: The Necessary Satire of Homecoming by Mark Peranson

Chaos Theory: Michael Winterbottom on Tristram Shandy by Adam Nayman

History Is the Enemy of Art: Philippe Garrel on Les amants réguliers By Stefan Grissemann

Bringing Down the House: Avi Mograbi’s Aesthetics of Failure by Richard Porton


Features

The Beat Goes On: The Films of Nagasaki Shunichi by Christoph Huber

Severed Ties: Forgotten Singaporean Cinema Remembered by Brandon Wee

Peter Watkins—Notes and Questions: (2) La Commune by John Gianvito

Double ‘O’ Heaven: The Vertigo Pop and Phantom Desires of João Pedro Rodrigues

By Johnny Ray Huston

Mr. Costa Goes to Vienna by Quintín


Spotlight: Undistributed Films

Brothers of the Head by Jason Anderson

Dark Horse by Jay Kuehner

Drawing Restraint 9 by David Balzer

Into Great Silence by Andrew Tracy

Linda Linda Linda by Chuck Stephens

Oxhide by Shelly Kraicer

The Pusher Trilogy by Joel McConvey

Tale of Cinema by Michael Sicinski

À travers la forêt by Robert Koehler


Columns

Editor’s Note

DVD: Global Discoveries on DVD by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Film/Art: Viennale by Andréa Picard

Books: Ley Lines, and Others by Olaf Möller

Canadiana: Aurore and Saint-Martyrs-des-damnes by Steve Gravestock

Back Page: In the Forest There Is Every Kind of Bird by Charles Mudede and Robinson Devor


Currency

C.R.A.Z.Y. by John Anderson

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan by Geoff Pevere

After Innocence by Jared Rapfogel


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