Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne co-star in a remake of John Carpenter’s classic Seventies indie thriller Assault on Precinct 13, to be directed by French filmmaker Jean-Francois Richet, maker of two little-seen films set in the Paris housing projects, Etat des Lieux and Ma 6-T va crack-er....

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai has just finished shooting his latest film, Promised Land Hotel, starring Hanna Shygulla and Anne Parillaud...

Phillip Roth’s American Pastoral will be brought to the screen by Philip Noyce, who last directed The Quiet American. Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, and Evan Rachel Wood are pencilled in to star...

After she finishes shooting the next Weitz brothers comedy, Synergy, Scarlett Johansson will co-star with Mark Wahlberg and Josh Hartnett in Brian De Palma’s adaptation of James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia. (As the detectives investigating the murder of the tite character, Wahlberg and Hartnett step into the shoes originally filled by Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe in L.A. Confidential)...

As he completes the editing of his forthcoming Howard Hughes film The Aviator, Martin Scorsese weighs his options for his next project. A remake of the Hong Kong undercover cop thriller Infernal Affairs starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio? An adaptation of Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter to be scripted by former British film critic Don Macpherson? A TV pilot for a modern-day Frankenstein story set in Seattle in the world of genetics?...

Japanese Remake Madness: Marcus Nispel will follow up his remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with a remake of the recent Japanese supernatural thriller Turn...

Meanwhile Walter Salles is set to remake Hideo Nakata’s Dark Water with a cast that includes Tim Roth, Jennifer Connelly, and John C. Reilly...

Reality TV’s favorite housewife, singer Jessica Simpson, will make her big screen debut in Walk On, a baseball pic to be directed by Walter Hill...

One of the stars of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jeff Garlin, will write, direct and star in I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, based on his own solo standup comedy show. Sarah Silverman will co-star...

Olaf Möller on Paolo Benvenuti's 1988The Kiss of Judas (Il bacio di Giuda), the antithesis of The Passion of the Christ and another view of Christ's final hours.
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As part of our special section on Maurice Pialat, Jean-Pierre Gorin comments on Pialat's L'Enfance Nue (1969).
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Alex Leeds breaks down the leading contenders to succeed DVDs: Digital VHS, Blu-ray Disc, and High Definition DVD.
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The most important French filmmaker of the last 30 years remains almost unknown in America. A year after his death, we take measure of this uncompromising and tough-minded observer of human foibles, for whom movie artifice was anathema.
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COVER STORY:
THE BIG RED ONE
Combat veteran Samuel Fuller's epic meditation on the crazy logic of war returns in something close to the form he orginally intended.
By Kent Jones and Richard Schickel


MOVIE OF THE MOMENT:
BEFORE SUNSET
Richard Linklater reunites Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy for another brief encounter in this miraculous real-life sequel to Before Sunrise.
By Amy Taubin

MIKE HODGES
With I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, the director and the star of Croupier, Mike Hodges and Clive Owen, reunite for a lethally fragmented revenge drama, set in a netherworld where nothing is what it seems and every step brings you closer to your ultimate destiny.
By Gary Indiana

PETER WATKINS
With his critiques of militarism and mass media, and his explorations of the creative psyche, this controversial Englishman in exile and pioneer of documentary hybrids has challenged the political and cinematic status quo every step of the way.
By Paul Arthur

FESTIVAL REPORTS
The latest discoveries from Berlin and New Directors / New Films by Olaf Möller, Alice Lovejoy, and Elizabeth Helfgott.

REVIEWS
"Free Radicals," Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier's "The Five Obstructions," and Roger Michell's "The Mother."

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