James L. Brooks
By Gavin Smith
The maestro of West Coast neurotic comedy talks about his new film How Do You Know. Plus: Jonathan Roseunbaum on the musical version of I'll Do Anything
Voices on Film
By David Thomson
Look who's talking (and singing). It's not as simple as it sounds
Isild Le Besco
By Scott Foundas
A fascination with fringe-dwellers energizes the films of this actress turned auteur
Mike Leigh
By Amy Taubin
England's greatest living filmmaker discusses Another Year's dance of the contented and the depressed, and Graham Fuller supplies an anatomy of melancholy. Plus, a Mike Leigh star chart
Short Takes Carancho by Laura Kern; The Housemaid by Chris Chang; Into Eternity by Chris Chang; Of Gods and Men by Nicolas Rapold; Twelve Thirty by Nicolas Rapold; The Way Back by Laura Kern
Home Movies
Zulawski x 4 by Travis Crawford
Readings
Joe McElhaney on Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema
January/February 2011
FEATURES
James L. Brooks
By Gavin Smith
The maestro of West Coast neurotic comedy talks about his new film How Do You Know. Plus: Jonathan Roseunbaum on the musical version of I'll Do Anything
Voices on Film
By David Thomson
Look who's talking (and singing). It's not as simple as it sounds
Isild Le Besco
By Scott Foundas
A fascination with fringe-dwellers energizes the films of this actress turned auteur
Mike Leigh
By Amy Taubin
England's greatest living filmmaker discusses Another Year's dance of the contented and the depressed, and Graham Fuller supplies an anatomy of melancholy. Plus, a Mike Leigh star chart
Final Cut 2010
Shoah
By Kent Jones
Claude Lanzmann’s epic documentary remains one of the cinema's greatest achievements
DEPARTMENTS
News, Hot Property, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die, Site Specifics, The Trivial Top 20®: Most Indelible Songs From ‘80s Films
Journal
Bucharest and the Romanian New Wave by Alex Leo Serban
Brief Encounters
Paul Giamatti interviewed by Harlan Jacobson
Sound & Vision
Adam Pendleton’s BAND by Holladay Penick and the Guggenheim’s Chaos & Classicism exhibit by Chris Chang
Olaf’s World
Roee Rosen by Olaf Möller
Encore
Arthur Penn’s The Chase by Richard Combs
Screenings
Cold Weather by Scott Foundas; The Strange Case of Angelica by Haden Guest; The Time That Remains by Joumane Chahine; True Grit by Nicolas Rapold
Short Takes
Carancho by Laura Kern; The Housemaid by Chris Chang; Into Eternity by Chris Chang; Of Gods and Men by Nicolas Rapold; Twelve Thirty by Nicolas Rapold; The Way Back by Laura Kern
Home Movies
Zulawski x 4 by Travis Crawford
Readings
Joe McElhaney on Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema
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