The Headless Woman A trenchant portrait of bourgeois denial from Lucrecia Martel
by Amy Taubin
Bonus: read the online-only uncut conversation between Taubin and Martel
Lorna’s Silence Neorealism meets noir in the Dardenne Brothers’ latest look at
life at the bottom
by Thom Andersen
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino makes pulp history with his World War II
extravaganza
by Scott Foundas Plus: Stefan Grissemann interviews Christoph Waltz,
the film’s urbane Nazi
Everyone Else
Maren Ade’s funny-scary relationship movie has teeth
by Kent Jones
Agnès Varda The Beaches of Agnès (re)caps a uniquely personal cinematic career
by Haden Guest
On the Download Inside a secret society of cinephile file-sharers
by Quintín
DEPARTMENTS
Encore Richard Combs on The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Brief Encounters Harlan Jacobson interviews Larry David
Screenings Still Walking, Tony Manero, In the Loop, Beeswax, and Thirst. Plus, short reviews of 500 Days of Summer, Ghosted, Humpday, Lion’s Den, Not Quite Hollywood, and Surveillance Readings Kazan on Directing reviewed by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Home Movies The latest DVDs and movies on demand
COMING IN SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2009
New York Film Festival special issue
Plus, Scorsese’s Shutter Island
Richard Kelly’s The Box
Italian Neorealism reconsidered by Stuart Klawans
Golden Age of Bollywood director Guru Dutt
On location with Kiarostami & Juliette Binoche: Certified Copy The Baader Meinhof Complex: a look at German cinema’s attempts to grapple with terrorism
Separated at birth: Sam Fuller and Robert Bresson by Howard Hampton
Anne Wiazemsky by David Ehrenstein
Gary Indiana on the late Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid
Michael Almereyda on Marcel L’Herbier’s L’Argent
Nathan Lee on The September Issue
