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INTERVIEWS

*Teller of Tales: Mariano Llinás on La Flor by Jordan Cronk

*Everything Transitory Is But an Image: Andrea Bussmann on Fausto by Josh Cabrita and Adam Cook

A Banished Life: Ying Liang on A Family Tour by Clarence Tsui.

*Mass Ornaments: Jodie Mack on The Grand Bizarre by Blake Williams

FEATURES

*Tous les garçons et les filles: Philippe Lesage’s Genèse and Les demons by Adam Nayman

*Touch Me I’m Sick: Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell by Jason Anderson

*First Person Plural: On Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind by Phil Coldiron

Hidden Lives and Quiet Passion: Alias John M. Stahl by Christoph Huber

No Emperor, Only an Empress: The Self-Made Myth of Marlene Dietrich by Alicia Fletcher

The Business of Horror: John Carpenter, Stephen King, and In the Mouth of Madness by Sean Rogers

Beyond Good and Evil: Damon Packard’s Los Angeles by Michael Sicinski

On No Thing: Jean-Luc Godard’s Grandeur et décadence d’un petit commerce de cinéma by Lawrence Garcia

COLUMNS

*Editor’s Note by Mark Peranson

*Deaths of Cinema: Hu Bo by Celluloid Liberation Front

Film/Art: Jeremy Shaw’s Quantification Trilogy by Jesse Cumming

*Global Discoveries on DVD by Jonathan Rosenbaum

DVD Bonus: G.W. Pabst’s Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft by Peter Mersereau

*Exploded View: Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty by Chuck Stephens

CURRENCY

*Transit by James Lattimer

Sorry to Bother You by Madeleine Wall

Blaze by Robert Koehler

*The Load by Azadeh Jafari

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  INTERVIEWS *The Act of Living: GianfrancThe Act of Living: Gianfranco Rosi on Notturnoo Rosi on Notturno By Mark Peranson*Reconstructing Violence:
- The Act of Living: Gianfranco Rosi on Notturno
  
  “The night scares me so much,” confesses a courageous Yazidi pre-teen girl to a therapist, remembering the period when she and her younger sister were captured by ISIS. Anyone who was seen crying would be killed, they were told; it turned out to be a vacant threat, but the sisters were still beaten, and now they are attempting to exorcise their memories by drawing pictures of them. Does it help? We never find out.
- Reconstructing Violence: Nicolás Pereda on Fauna
  
  There’s a point in nearly every Nicolás Pereda film when the narrative is either reoriented or upended in some way. In the past this has occurred through bifurcations in story structure or via ruptures along a given film’s docufiction fault line. Pereda’s ninth feature, Fauna, extends this tradition, though its means of execution and conceptual ramifications represent something new for the 38-year-old Mexican-Canadian filmmaker.
- I Lost It at the Movies: Charlie Kaufman’s Antkind and I’m Thinking of Ending Things
  
  “It’s all planned, but it isn’t thought out,” wrote Pauline Kael in her review of A Woman Under the Influence (1974), a nifty bit of critical jiu-jitsu turning John Cassavetes’ much-theorized—and, during Kael’s reign at The New Yorker, much-derided—technique of spontaneous improvisation within a dramatic framework against him.
- Open Ticket: The Long, Strange Trip of Ulrike Ottinger
  
  One of the most surprising things about Ulrike Ottinger’s new documentary Paris Calligrammes is how accessible it is. Some cinephiles may be familiar with Ottinger based on an 11-year period of mostly fictional productions that were adjacent to the New German Cinema but, for various reasons, were never entirely subsumed within that rubric. Others are quite possibly more aware of her later work in documentary, in particular her commitment to a radical form of experimental ethnographic cinema.

Issue 84 Table of Contents

INTERVIEWS *The Act of Living: GianfrancThe Act of Living: Gianfranco Rosi on Notturnoo Rosi on Notturno By Mark Peranson*Reconstructing Violence: Nicolás Pereda on Fauna By More →
The Act of Living: Gianfranco Rosi on Notturno

“The night scares me so much,” confesses a courageous Yazidi pre-teen girl to a therapist, remembering the period when she and her younger sister were captured by ISIS. Anyone who was seen crying would be killed, they were told; it turned out to be a vacant threat, but the sisters were still beaten, and now they are attempting to exorcise their memories by drawing pictures of them. Does it help? We never find out. More →
Reconstructing Violence: Nicolás Pereda on Fauna

There’s a point in nearly every Nicolás Pereda film when the narrative is either reoriented or upended in some way. In the past this has occurred through bifurcations in story structure or via ruptures along a given film’s docufiction fault line. Pereda’s ninth feature, Fauna, extends this tradition, though its means of execution and conceptual ramifications represent something new for the 38-year-old Mexican-Canadian filmmaker. More →
I Lost It at the Movies: Charlie Kaufman’s Antkind and I’m Thinking of Ending Things

“It’s all planned, but it isn’t thought out,” wrote Pauline Kael in her review of A Woman Under the Influence (1974), a nifty bit of critical jiu-jitsu turning John Cassavetes’ much-theorized—and, during Kael’s reign at The New Yorker, much-derided—technique of spontaneous improvisation within a dramatic framework against him. More →
Open Ticket: The Long, Strange Trip of Ulrike Ottinger

One of the most surprising things about Ulrike Ottinger’s new documentary Paris Calligrammes is how accessible it is. Some cinephiles may be familiar with Ottinger based on an 11-year period of mostly fictional productions that were adjacent to the New German Cinema but, for various reasons, were never entirely subsumed within that rubric. Others are quite possibly more aware of her later work in documentary, in particular her commitment to a radical form of experimental ethnographic cinema. More →