Film Comment Current Issue Christopher Guest The Aura Distributor Wanted Piano Tuner Review Online Exclusive Critics' Poll 2006 Art and Industry Archive Film Comment Selects Subscribe Buy Back Issues Advertising Distribution Indexes Contact Us   November/December 2006 FEATURES Borat A cretin from Kazakhstan pushes America’s buttons by Nathan Lee The Departed The high-stakes psych-outs of Scorsese’s thriller by Jean-Pierre Gorin The Aura Fabián Bielinsky’s hypnotic swan song by Geoffrey O’Brien Eugène Green In his philosophical oeuvre, language is all by Jonathan Romney Walerian Borowczyk Seventies art cinema’s erotic provocateur by David Thompson Christopher Guest Team spirit strikes comedic gold by Kent Jones Mark LaPore The ethical dilemmas of an avant-garde ethnographer by Tom Gunning agnès b. A vogue for cinema by Amy Taubin DEPARTMENTS Encore Alberto Lattuada’s Mafioso by Phillip Lopate Art of the Real Paul Arthur on Michael Apted’s “Up” series Olaf's World The New Crowned Hope festival Festivals Venice & Toronto Opening Shots News, Guy Maddin’s Jolly Corner, Crispin Glover’s Guilty Pleasures, Alex Cox’s Flashback, and Distributor Wanted: Day Night Day Night by Chris Chang Sound & Vision Funky Forest & Catherine Chalmers Screenings The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Volver, What is it?, Fast Food Nation, and Our Daily Bread Readings The Village Voice Film Guide and more Home Movies The latest DVD releases COMING IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2007 Our Annual End-of-Year Wrap-Up, including Movies That Mattered, 10-Best Lists and Critics’ Poll Guillermo del Toro David Lynch's Inland Empire by Gary Indiana Plus Amy Taubin on Inland Empire, Southland Tales and the Internet Anthony Mann Jackie Earle Haley by Tom Beller Jean-Pierre Gorin on Jean-Marie Straub and the late Danièle Huilletr J. Hoberman on East German Westerns On Location in Hong Kong with Olivier Assayas And much more...

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