Film Comment Current Issue Jennifer Jones The Edge of Heaven Distributor Wanted Yella Review Online Exclusives Archive Film Comment Selects Subscribe Buy Back Issues Advertising Distribution Indexes Contact Us   May/June 2008 FEATURES Redbelt David Mamet dramatizes the struggle to stay pure in a corrupt world by Nathan Lee The Edge of Heaven Fatih Akin probes the fault lines of German-Turkish identity by Thomas Elsaesser Jennifer Jones The actress who turned the tables on male fantasy by Miriam Bale The Last Mistress Catherine Breillat and Asia Argento’s defiant, erotic head-trip by Amy Taubin Alexander Kluge The godfather of New German Cinema and his massive oeuvre, still going strong by Thomas Elsaesser Darezhan Omirbaev An unheralded artist whose spare, precise poetics make him the Hitchcock of interior space by Kent Jones May ’68: The Movie Cinematic treatments of revolutionary struggle and radical action by Howard Hampton DEPARTMENTS Encore Brynn White on The Last Sunset Brief Encounters Harlan Jacobson interviews Richard Jenkins Opening Shots News, Distributor Wanted: Estômago by Laura Kern, Alex Cox’s Flashback, Site Specifics, Letters Fade Out Paul Arthur Olaf's World Svetlana Proskurina Sound & Vision Arthur Russell & Lawrence Weiner Festivals Berlin Screenings Yella, My Winnipeg, Encounters at the End of the World, and Operation Filmmaker. Plus, short reviews of Bigger, Stronger, Faster, Mister Lonely, Son of Rambow, Tell No One, and Trumbo Readings Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door by David Kaufman and more Home Movies The latest DVD releases COMING IN JULY/AUGUST 2008 Cannes Festival reported in full Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira by Jonathan Rosenbaum Rethinking David Lean Legendary cult actor Pierre Clémenti France’s gay iconoclast Jacques Nolot San Francisco’s indie maverick Rob Nilsson Documentary double-up: Alan Zweig’s narcissism/fetishism doc trilogy by Rob Nelson, plus Michael Atkinson on Canadian Meta Docs Tribeca Film Festival report Brideshead Revisited Batman: The Dark Knight: An interview with Christopher Nolan

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