Sept/Oct 2004

I ♥ HUCKABEES
David O. Russell, the director of Three Kings, is back with his most unconventional movie to date - a playful philosophical comedy about the meaning of life and the interconnection of everything. by GAVIN SMITH

Plus an ONLINE EXCLUSIVE : A selection of exclusive outtakes from the interview with David O. Russell in the Sept/Oct issue. by GAVIN SMITH

SHAW BROTHERS STUDIOS
From swordplay to gunplay, golden vampires to disco bumpkins, wuxia to wenyi, the Shaw Brothers over saw the creation of a glorious alternate universe of cinema. After a long wait, the vaults of the legendary Hong Kong studio have been pried open, and wondrous treasures are pouring out. Let the feast begin! by CHUCK STEPHENS

Plus an ONLINE EXCLUSIVE SIDEBAR : Five Immortals from the Shaw Brother's Crypt.

VERA DRAKE
Mike Leigh's powerful new film takes a fresh look at a highly charged subject. by AMY TAUBIN

PETER KUBELKA
An Austrian avant-garde pioneer returns after a 26-year break with a new film, Poetry and Truth, an excursion into the anthropology of consumerism and the magic of "perfectly found" footage in his first piece of "metaphysical cinema." by ANDREW HORWATH

FIRST LOOK:
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: An uncut version of the article on Ingmar Bergman's Saraband by PHILLIP LOPATE

JOURNAL: HONG KONG by LI CHEUK-TO

REVIEW:
Catherine Breillat's Anatomy of Hell by NATHAN LEE

CAMERON JAMIE
An expat artist brings us ritualized spectacles of the grotesque and the ridiculous, dredged up from the subcultural depths. by GARY INDIANA

DAVID GORDON GREEN
With the exciting Undertow, this young director sticks to the strategy of the self-defined filmmaker. by KENT JONES

DOCU-ANGST
First-person nonfiction filmmaking as therapeutic psychodrama. by PAUL ARTHUR

MARLON BRANDO
A reminder that our greatest and most influential actor belongs with Miles Davis and Jackson Pollock in the pantheon of 20th-century American artists. by AMY TAUBIN

TEMENOS PART II
The open-air premiere of Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios. by JEFFREY STOUT and NOAH STOUT

THE FLAHERTY SEMINAR
The 50th anniversary of the nonfiction film enclave. by PAUL ARTHUR

DEPARTMENTS:

FESTIVALS
Los Angeles

GUILTY PLEAURES
Daniel Handler

MOVIE OF THE MOMENT
Alexander Payne's Sideways

OLAF'S WORLD
Hong Kong's Modern Films

SOUND AND VISION
DJ Spooky & the paintings of Maurice Pialat

REVIEW: Anatomy of Hell; Vanity Fair; and Bright Future
BOOKS: Kim Jong Il's On the Art of Cinema
VIDI VIDI VIDI: The latest DVD releases