Film Comment Current Issue Guantanamo United 93 Price Of Power Syria Online Exclusives Art and Industry Archive Film Comment Selects Subscribe Buy Back Issues Advertising Distribution Contact Us   May/June 2006 FEATURES Robert Altman A Prairie Home Companion casts a misunderstood career in a new light by Kent Jones "Movie Magic" A meditation on cinema’s transporting power by Geoffrey O'Brien Army of Shadows Jean-Pierre Melville’s stark French Resistance chronicle by Amy Taubin Guy Debord The situationist’s subversive cinematic forays by Howard Hampton United 93 Paul Greengrass talks with Gavin Smith about filming the unfilmable by Gavin Smith. Read the intro. Directing Actors An actor gives us the benefit of his experience making movies by Charles Grodin The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Corporeal Cinema: a meta-genre for the physically minded by Paul Arthur. Daniel Burman The Argentine-Jewish experience as rendered in this young auteur’s nervous comedies by Pablo Suarez DEPARTMENTS Return Engagement Don Siegel’s Baby Face Nelson by Geoffrey O'Brien Journal Syrian cinema by Cécile Boëx Opening Shots News, Flashback:Tonino Valerii’s The Price of Power by Alex Cox, Letters, and Distributor Wanted: Le Petit Lieutenant by Nicolas Rapold Olaf's World Serdar Akar’s Valley of the Wolves: Iraq Festivals Berlin & New Directors/New Films Sound & Vision Alexander Sokurov’s The Sun & William Wegman Screenings The Road to Guantanamo, Lady Vengeance, The Proposition, and Twelve and Holding. Readings Laura Mulvey’s Death 24x a Second and more Home Movies The latest DVD releases COMING IN JULY/AUGUST 2006 Richard Linklater interviewed about A Scanner Darkly and Fast Food Nation Howard Hampton on Hou Hsiao-hsien Vivan Sobchack on the summer horror sensation The Descent The return of Guy Maddin's Jolly Corner Nathan Lee on João Pedro Rodrigues Tom Gunning on avant-garde filmmaker Mark LaPore Olaf Möller on Romuald Karmakar

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