Film Comment Current Issue Accidental Auteurist Hot Property Site Specifics Reyjkavik F.F. Up in the Air Online Exclusives Archive Film Comment Selects Subscribe Buy Back Issues Advertising Distribution Indexes Contact Us   November/December 2009 FEATURES Michael Haneke A serious talk with the director of The White Ribbon by Alexander Horwath Bonus: read the online-only uncut conversation between Horwath and Haneke Fantastic Mr. Fox Wes Anderson’s first 100 percent animated movie is a family film in more senses than one by Kent Jones Precious Lee Daniels breaks new ground with a wrenching look at black life by Wesley Morris Richard Kelly What’s inside The Box? Another unsettling trip through the cosmic looking glass by Nathan Lee Robert Bresson vs. Samuel Fuller Opposites refract: the pulpmeister and the priest reconsidered by Howard Hampton Anne Wiazemsky Discovered by Bresson, married to Godard, an iconic actress tells (almost) all by David Ehrenstein DEPARTMENTS Hot Set Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy The Accidental Auteurist Andrew Sarris on Police, Adjective Opening Shots News, Hot Property: Women Without Men, Author, Auteur, Site Specifics: Film-Philosophy, The Trivial Top 20®, Letters Brief Encounters Jason Reitman interviewed by Harlan Jacobson Sound & Vision Anvil & Aïda Ruilova Festivals Venice, Toronto, and Reykjavik Screenings Up in the Air, A Single Man, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Broken Embraces, and The Road. Plus, short takes on Act of God, Brothers, Mammoth, Me and Orson Welles, A Town Called Panic, and Until the Light Takes Us Readings Farber on Film Home Movies The latest DVD and on-demand releases COMING IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010 Our End of the Decade Extravaganza: Best Films of the 00s Poll voted on by an international panel of critics, programmers, and filmmakers. Plus: The Best of 2009 James Cameron’s Avatar Dave Kehr on the new generation of 3-D filmmaking Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones Nancy Meyers’s It’s Complicated Gary Indiana on the late Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid Graham Fuller on the Red Riding trilogy Amy Taubin on A Prophet Kent Jones on Inglourious Basterds & Public Enemies Thom Andersen on Dusty and Sweets McGee

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