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September/October 2006

FEATURES


Marie Antoinette
For Sofia Coppola, sensibility trumps sense by Nathan Lee

Kirsten Dunst
The girl next door does Versailles by Melissa Anderson


The Film Canon
What constitutes a cinematic masterpiece? by Paul Schrader
Read the Intro

Old Joy
Kelly Reichardt’s cinema of disconnection by Dave Kehr


When Critics Attack
The director of I Am a Sex Addict bites back by Caveh Zahedi





Miklós Jancsó
The Hungarian master’s late-Sixties trilogy by J. Hoberman




Warhol By Way of Cronenberg
A pop-art icon seen through the eyes of a subversive auteur by Amy Taubin


DEPARTMENTS

First Look
Stephen Frears’s The Queen by Graham Fuller

Art of the Real
Paul Arthur on Iraq war docs

Encore
José B. Capino on Insiang

Opening Shots
News, Guy Maddin’s Jolly Corner, Alex Cox’s Flashback, and Distributor Wanted: Shoot the Messenger by Chris Chang

Sound & Vision
Michael Haneke & Douglas Gordon

Screenings
Mutual Appreciation, Shortbus, Infamous, and The Last King of Scotland

Readings
What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? and more

Home Movies
The latest DVD releases



COMING IN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2006

Kent Jones on Christopher Guest’s For Your Consideration

Guillermo del Toro by Nathan Lee

David Thompson on the strange career of the late Polish cult filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk

Claude Chabrol by Richard Combs

Amy Taubin on French fashion legend agnès b.’s secret life as a film producer

On Location in Hong Kong with Olivier Assayas

Tom Gunning on avant-garde filmmaker Mark Lapore

And much more...
 

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