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COMING IN May/June 2005:
Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queens by Nathan Lee
Andrew Sarris by Kent Jones
Elaine May by Chuck Stephens
Michael Powell by Richard Combs
Jean Rouch by Sam DiIorio
And much more
January / February 2004
LORD OF THE RINGS
Clocking in at over nine hours (not counting the additional scenes on the DVDs), The Lord of the Rings has earned its place among film history's incontestable epics. Now that the trilogy is complete, we can begin to appreciate Peter Jackson's awe-inspiring cinematic achievement and majestic vision.
GRAHAM FULLER
JEAN-CLAUDE BRISSEAU
Like his other films, Secret Things combines elements of melodrama, fantasy, and social realism, investigates questions of power, class, and sexual politics, and evades clear-cut classification. Welcome to the twisted universe of Jean-Claude Brisseau, one of French cinema's best-kept secrets.
FRÉDÉRIC BONNAUD
WILLIAM A. WELLMAN
The Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, The Ox-Bow Incident - just three films from this two-fisted Hollywood maverick's 30-plus-year career. Andrew
Sarris categorized him as "Less Than Meets the Eye,” but a partial survey of his 77-title body of work uncovers a pattern of contradictions, unexpected choices, and perverse moves that suggests it's time for a rethink.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
Plus an
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Wellman interviewed by
SCOTT EYMAN
2003 WRAP-UP
Was 2003 as dismal a year for
mainstream film as everyone said?
It certainly witnessed exciting
developments in unexpected places.
In our annual wrap-up, we revisit the idiosyncratic highs and lowbrow lows of the year - with characteristic critical vengeance. Check out the 20 Best Films of 2003,
Movies That Mattered, Terra Incognita, and more.
Plus ONLINE EXCLUSIVES: Guilty Pleasures,
"Two for the Road" from Michael Almereyda, and extended Best Films lists.
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THE
TEMENOS
Self-exiled American avant-garde film pioneer Gregory Markopoulos died in 1991 - but his visionary plan to re-edit, preserve, and present his oeuvre in the form of the 80-hour Eniaios is about to be realized.
NATHAN LEE
TIMOTHY
CAREY
A close encounter with the eccentric
cult character actor who stole scenes in two
Kubrick classics and tangled with Wilder, Brando, Coppola, and Cassavetes.
GROVER LEWIS
Plus: a look at The World's Greatest Sinner,
the little-seen indie oddity written, produced, and directed by Carey.
ALAN LICHT
OLAF'S WORLD: ZELIMIR ZILNIK
Life on the road with the tireless chronicler of Yugoslavia's disintegration.
FIRST LOOK: NOT ON THE LIPS
Alain Resnais's latest experiment: a musical farce about the limits of freedom.
FRÉDÉRIC BONNAUD
SOUND: THE AFTER DINNER COLLECTION
At last, My Dinner with André is the conceptual touchstone for an entire hip-hop album.
CHRIS NORRIS
VISION: LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN
You don't have to understand the words deployed throughout the art of Lothar Baumgarten for multiple meanings to emerge.
CHRIS CHANG
DISCOVERY: ANNEMARIE JACIR
In like twenty impossibles, a young Palestinian filmmaker explores fragmented landscapes and lives.
AMY TAUBIN
MOVIE OF THE MOMENT: THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
A blast from the past that continues to resonate.
LARRY GROSS
FESTIVALS: VANCOUVER
Planet of the tapes.
CHUCK STEPHENS
FICTION: "MOVIE BEAST"
A new story from Mary Woronov, actress-turned-cult queen and writer.
DEPARTMENTS:
REVIEW: Monster, Crimson Gold, Cold Mountain, and ( )
BOOKS: Colin MacCabe's Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy
VIDI VIDI VIDI: The latest DVD releases: Star Trek - The Motion Pictures; Naked Lunch; One from the Heart; more
