No Country for Old Men
Joel and Ethan Coen’s hardboiled heartland
by Geoffrey O’Brien
Eagle Pennell The rise and fall of a Texan maverick
by Daniel Stuyck
Ingmar Bergman
The critical bind of the brand-name filmmaker
by Kent Jones
Mumblecore Pros and cons of the much-hyped neo-indie movement
by Amy Taubin
Noah Baumbach Margot at the Wedding’s mordant comedy of family dysfunction
by Kristin M. Jones
Juno A director and his precocious teen protagonist come into their own
by Starlee Kine
Battle for Haditha vs. Redacted To live and die in Iraq
by Paul Arthur
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten The legendary frontman of a band that fused music with movies
by Howard Hampton
DEPARTMENTS
Brief Encounters Ridley Scott
by Harlan Jacobson
Olaf’s World Amit Dutta
by Olaf Möller
Art of the Real Paul Arthur on PBS’s P.O.V.
Encore Joan Micklin Silver’s Between the Lines
by Rob Nelson
Fade OutEdward Yang
PlaybillPostwar French movie posters
Festivals Venice & Toronto
Opening Shots News, Distributor Wanted: Useless by Chris Chang, Guy Maddin’s Jolly Corner, Flashback, Site Specifics, Letters, Richard LaGravenese’s Guilty Pleasures
Sound & Vision Seven Easy Pieces & Richard Serra
Screenings Southland Tales, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Persepolis, The Walker, and Atonement Readings Stephen Thrower’s Nightmare USA and more. (Read the online-only extended version of Phillip Lopate’s review of Chris Marker’s Staring Backhere.)
Home Movies The latest DVD releases
COMING IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2008 (and beyond)
Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood by Kent Jones
Olivier Assayas on Edward Yang
György Pálfi’s Taxidermia
Nathan Lee on Underground filmmaker Damon Packard
Richard Fleischer
Agnès Varda’s film essays 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Woman on the Beach Ex-Drummer
Philippe Garrel’s J’entends plus la guitarre
Festivals: Vancouver
End of Year Package:
Best of Films of 2007 poll
The Movies That Mattered
Terra Incognita - Our Foreign Contributor’s Unknown Pleasures Transformers
Claire Denis films Sonic Youth Zodiac - the film of the year?
Coming Soon:
Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz
San Francisco maverick Rob Nilsson
Carlos Reygadas
Thomas Elsaesser on Alexander Kluge
Horror remakes
