A Matter of Life and Death A neurological take on Powell & Pressburger’s heavenly fantasy
by Oliver Sacks
The Hurt Locker What makes Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War procedural tick
by Amy Taubin
Jim Jarmusch
The director of The Limits of Control talks about going out on a limb
by Gavin Smith. Plus, Kent Jones on a trance film for our times
Bonus: read the online-only uncut conversation between Smith and Jarmusch
Second Impressions
Reversals of opinion, about-faces, flip-flops, and other acts of wanton revisionism
by Phillip Lopate. Plus, nine critics fess up to changing their minds
The Shop Around the Corner Movies rarely depict the realities of the workplace but Ernst Lubitsch’s 1940 classic gets it right
by Kent Jones
Cinema’s Afterlife If cinema as we know it ended sometime last century, it lives on as a succession of haunted screens, unmade films, and empty rooms
by Chris Petit
Sound & Vision Peer Raben & Jane and Louise Wilson
Screenings Departures, The Girlfriend Experience, Away We Go, Pontypool, Tetro, Chéri, and Three Monkeys. Plus, short reviews of Easy Virtue, Eldorado, Empty Nest, Food, Inc., Moon, and O’Horten Readings Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film reviewed by Geoffrey O’Brien
Plus, short reviews of Warren Oates: A Wild Life, Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel, and Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (Read the extended version here)
Home Movies The latest DVDs and movies on demand
COMING IN JULY/AUGUST 2009
Michael Mann’s Public Enemies
Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
Cannes Film Festival fully loaded
Amy Taubin interviews Headless Woman director Lucrecia Martel
Thom Andersen on Lorna’s Silence
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Still Walking The Baader-Meinhoff Complex and German cinema’s fraught relationship with portraying terrorism
Gary Indiana on the late Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid
Haden Guest on Agnès Varda
Encore: Roger Corman’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Harlan Jacobson has a Brief Encounter with Larry David
Andrew Bujalski’s Beeswax
