David Cronenberg The director of Eastern Promises on Muslim extremism, the Russian mob, and a certain naked knife fight by Amy Taubin
The Darjeeling Limited All aboard Wes Anderson’s soul train by Chris Norris
I’m Not There Todd Haynes’s radical, prismatic, exploding Dylan whatsit
by Larry Gross
Sidney Lumet With Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, the elder statesman of New York moviemaking lands another knockout punch by Gary Giddins
Cruising Is William Friedkin’s 1980 film maudit homophobic or hot? by Melissa Anderson
Fassbinder Controversy over the sanitization of a dead filmmaker’s life
by Katja Nicodemus
Read the Fassbinder Colleagues’ Statement here
Jacques Rivette The inscrutable role-playing games of this French master continue with
The Duchess of Langeais
by Jonathan Romney
Kihachi Okamoto Why this major Japanese director’s career remains unknown in the West
by Tom Mes
DEPARTMENTS
Brief Encounters Anthony Hopkins
by Harlan Jacobson
Olaf’s World Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
by Olaf Möller
Art of the Real Paul Arthur on Heddy Honigmann’s Forever
Encore Ralph Murphy’s Girl Without a Room
by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Festivals Bergman Week on Fårö by Laura Kern
Opening Shots News, Distributor Wanted: Actresses by Amy Taubin, Guy Maddin’s Jolly Corner (read the online-only extended version here), Flashback, Site Specifics
Sound & Vision Scott Walker & Day Is Done
Screenings Gone Baby Gone, Feast of Love, The Brave One, The Last Winter, and The Untouchable Readings D. N. Rodowick’s The Virtual Life of Film and more
Home Movies The latest DVD releases
COMING IN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007
Joel & Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men
Phillip Lopate on Noah Baumbach’s Margot at the Wedding
Gary Indiana on the Barbet Schroeder documentary Terror’s Advocate
Nathan Lee on underground filmmaker Damon Packard
Texas indie maverick Eagle Pennell
Richard Fleischer
Tony Rayns on Edward Yang
Venice and Toronto Film Festival coverage
And much more...
