Film Comment Current Issue Antichrist Hot Property Accidental Auteurist Site Specifics Burning Plain Online Exclusives Archive Film Comment Selects Subscribe Buy Back Issues Advertising Distribution Indexes Contact Us   September/October 2009 FEATURES Where the Wild Things Are Spike Jonze takes another excursion into the psyche, and this time it’s child’s play by Kent Jones Antichrist The devil is a woman in Lars von Trier’s shocking psychodrama by Larry Gross Wild Grass Alain Resnais’s playful celebration of late-life amour fou by Amy Taubin Guru Dutt The brief but brilliant career of a Bollywood triple threat by Jacob Levich The Baader Meinhof Complex Thirty years of terrorism on the German big screen by Katja Nicodemus Italian Neorealism The rise and fall and rise of an indestructible film movement by Stuart Klawans DEPARTMENTS Encore Michael Almereyda on Marcel L’Herbier’s L’Argent Bonus: read the online-only uncut version The Accidental Auteurist Andrew Sarris on Public Enemies Opening Shots News, Hot Property: Love Exposure, Peep Show, Site Specifics: World Picture Journal, The Trivial Top 20®, Fade Out Journal Beijing by Li Hongyu Sound & Vision Apichatpong Weerasethakul & Yang Fudong Olaf's World Ho Tzu Nyen Screenings The Burning Plain, 35 Shots of Rum, The Informant!, The September Issue, Defamation, and The Damned United. Plus, short takes on Bronson, The Maid, The Messenger, 9, Paris, and We Live in Public Readings Film, a Sound Art by Michel Chion Home Movies The latest DVD and on-demand releases COMING IN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009 Our End of the Decade Extravaganza: Best Films of the 00s Poll voted on by an international panel of critics, programmers, and filmmakers. Plus: comments & 10-best lists Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox Richard Kelly’s The Box Exclusive in-depth interview with Michael Haneke on The White Ribbon by Alexander Horwath Lee Daniels’s Push by Wesley Morris Separated at birth: Sam Fuller and Robert Bresson by Howard Hampton Bresson discovery Anne Wiazemsky by David Ehrenstein Gary Indiana on the late Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid Joan Dupont visits the set of Kiarostami’s Certified Copy Thom Anderson on Dusty and Sweets McGee Festivals: Venice, Toronto & Reykjavik

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