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COMING IN JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2004:
* Final Cut: FILM COMMENT's review of 2003: The Movies that Mattered, Guilty Pleasures, 10 Bests, why Charlie's Angels Full Throttle was the film of the year and more. Plus the Top 20 Films of 2003 poll by the magazine's contributors and friends.
SEE LAST YEAR'S POLL.
* Graham Fuller on the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
* William Wellman by Bertrand Tavernier
* Grover Lewis talks with cult character actor Timothy Carey.
* Gregory Markopoulos's posthumous Eniaios, by Nathan Lee.
* First Look: Alain Resnais's Pas sur la bouche.
* The Battle of Algiers by Larry Gross
* Fiction by Mary Woronov.
* The 22nd Vancouver International Film Festival report, by Chuck Stephens.
* Jim Hoberman reviews Colin MacCabe's Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy.
* Bob Newhart's Guilty Pleasures
NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2003
KILL BILL
At the halfway mark in Quentin Tarantinoās reinvention of the
martial-arts movie, the body count is over 100 - revenge may be sweet, but it sure is messy. Two takes on the art of the avid fan.
GEOFFREY OāBRIEN
CHRIS NORRIS
FESTIVALS
A roundup of the latest discoveries on the film festival circuit, from New York to Toronto to Venice.
NEW YORK: PHILLIP LOPATE
VENICE: OLAF MÖLLER
TORONTO: MARK OLSEN
NICOLE ARMOUR AND
GAVIN SMITH
DOGVILLE
Love it or hate it, Lars von Trierās latest cinematic experiment pushes
a lot of buttons. Churlish anti-
American diatribe or courageous
critique of U.S. hypocrisy and
corruption? Either way, itās the
Movie of the Moment.
HARLAN JACOBSON
MOVIE MUSIC 1933 - 2001:
PART 1: HOLLYWOOD
From King Kong to Waking Life: a chronological guide to 101 essential film scores, encapsulating the history and evolution of the form, beginning in the Thirties with the rise of the European Romantic tradition and continuing through the emergence of jazz, avant-garde, and pop influences in the postwar era.
IN THE CUT
In this story of murder,
misogyny, and dark desire,
sexual politics becomes a dance between predators and prey in which every man is a suspect and women look for love in all the wrong places. Jane Campion enters the lurid world of the psychosexual thriller.
AMY TAUBIN
TIME OF REVENGE
This yearās winner of the annual Grand Marnier Film Fellowship essay competition detects the
subversive impulse hidden within Adolfo Aristarainās tight, sardonic thriller, made during the darkest days of Argentinaās Dirty War.
JOHN MAGARY
FIRST LOOK: BIG FISH
Tim Burtonā comes home with a story about tall tales and simple truths
DAVE KEHR
ISTANBUL JOURNAL
Back from near oblivion, Turkish Cinema gets a new lease on life.
ATILLA DORSAY
SOUND: SPACE IS THE PLACE
Sun Ra's 1972 mindblower has returned to earth, this time as a brand new DVD.
CHUCK STEPHENS
VISION: JEREMY BLAKE
What is a "time-based painting," why was one in Times Square last summer, and what does it all have to with P.T. Anderson?
CHRIS CHANG
STORYBOARD: THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA
Gabriel Brownstein's first novel won the 2002 Pen/Hemingway Award. In this specially commissioned short story, we meet Amos, an awkward teen who's very attached to his video camera.
DEPARTMENTS:
REVIEW: The Fog of War, 21 Grams, & Ripleyās Game
BOOKS: The Dream Life by J. Hoberman; Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes; The Hidden God: Film and Faith edited by Mary Lea Bandy and Antonio Monda; Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of Rome, 1950 - 1966 by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Hollywood Horror: from Gothic to Cosmic by Mark A. Vieira
VIDI VIDI VIDI: The latest DVD releases: To Live and Die in L.A.; Seabiscuit; Lon Chaney Collection; The Work of Director Spike Jonze; more
