Milk Gus Van Sant honors an American hero in another chronicle of death foretold
by Nathan Lee
Catherine Deneuve
The director of A Christmas Tale interviews his regal leading lady
by Arnaud Desplechin
Bonus: read the online-only uncut conversation between Deneuve and Desplechin
Gabrielle
The existential, anti-capitalist, and feminist imperatives that guide Patrice Chéreau’s 2005 drama of marital collapse
by Robin Wood
Plus: David Ehrenstein on the physically and emotionally intense cinema of the French auteur behind Gabrielle
Ashes of Time Redux
Wong Kar Wai’s tuned-up martial-arts roundelay
by Howard Hampton
Waltz with Bashir An animated j’accuse sifts through uneasy memories of Israel at war
by Stuart Klawans
André Bazin The founding father of modern film criticism continues to make waves
by Dudley Andrew
Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt keeps the faith with the people who fall through the safety net
by Kristin M. Jones
White Dog How Hollywood tried to tame Sam Fuller’s racially incendiary mongrel
by Lisa Dombrowski
DEPARTMENTS
Encore Rob Nelson on Demon Lover Diary and Seventeen
Brief Encounters Harlan Jacobson interviews Mike Leigh
Opening Shots News, Hot Property: Tulpan by Chris Chang, Alex Cox’s Flashback, Site Specifics: Order of the Exile, Letters
Fade Out Kent Jones pays tribute to Manny Farber, 1917-2008
Sound & Vision Moses and Aaron & Steve McQueen’s Hunger
Bonus: read the extended Sound column by Allen Shawn
Screenings The Secret of the Grain, Synecdoche, New York, Slumdog Millionaire, and JCVD. Plus, short reviews of The Betrayal, Dust, Lake City, Splinter, Theater of War, and Timecrimes Readings Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film by Irving Singer and more
