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March/April 2008

FEATURES


Horror Remakes
Let’s do it again: from Psycho to Funny Games
by Nathan Lee

Munyurangabo
A tale of friendship and revenge in Rwanda
by Robin Wood



Heartbeat Detector
The unsettling questions at the heart of Nicolas Klotz’s oeuvre
by Irina Leimbacher


Meryl Streep
This great actress—make that great artist—continues to define our notions of womanhood
by Molly Haskell



Shine a Light
Scorsese and the Rolling Stones achieve symbiosis
by Paul Arthur




Grosses Gloss
2007’s box-office achievers and also-rans
by Alec Harvey and Donald Wilson



DEPARTMENTS




Encore
Bertrand Tavernier on It Always Rains on Sunday



Art of the Real
Paul Arthur on Hearts of Darkness


Opening Shots
News, Distributor Wanted: Captian Ahab by Elisabeth Lequeret, Alex Cox’s Flashback, Site Specifics, Letters

Readers’ Poll
The 30 best films of 2007
Read the 50 best here.


Olaf's World
Patrick Tam

Sound & Vision
No Country for Old Men & Technically Sweet

Festivals
Sundance & Rotterdam

Screenings
Boarding Gate, Stalags, Standard Operating Procedure, Paranoid Park, Flight of the Red Balloon, J’entends plus la guitare, and Love Songs

Readings
The World and Its Double by Chris Fujiwara and more

Home Movies
The latest DVD releases



COMING IN MAY/JUNE 2008

Iron Man
Amy Taubin on Catherine Breillat’s The Last Mistress
David Mamet’s Redbelt
Revolutionary Cinema: May 68 and beyond by Howard Hampton
The career of French film icon Pierre Clementi
San Francisco’s indie maverick Rob Nilsson
Jennifer Jones
Kent Jones on Darezhan Omirbaev
Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven
German New Wave giant Alexander Kluge by Thomas Elsaesser
David Lean reconsidered by way of his unmade final project, Nostromo
Robert Aldrich’s The Last Sunset
Reports from the Berlin Film Festival & New Directors/New Films



 

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