July/August 2012

FEATURES

ADAM CURTIS
By Chris Darke
The BBC's in-house subversive and secret-history specialist discusses his collage aesthetic and why journalists hate him

OLIVER STONE'S SAVAGES
By Scott Foundas
Oliver Stone interviewed about his post-Iraq War drug thriller

PROMETHEUS
By Vivian Sobchack
The summer's most anticipated film and its obligations to franchise filmmaking and mythology

I KILLED BETTE DAVIS
By Larry Cohen
How an unlikely collaboration between an indie maverick and a Hollywood legend came undone

OBAMA CINEMA
By J. Hoberman
Hollywood's response to a black man in the White House, before and after the fact

STEVE MCQUEEN
By Richard Combs
Rethinking the image of an iconic tough guy through his Method muscle-flexing

DEPARTMENTS

EDITOR'S LETTER

OPENING SHOTS
News, Hot Property: Our Children, Alex Cox's 10,000 Ways to Die: More Than Frybread, Site Specifics: cinemetrics.lv, Trivial Top 20®: Most Prolific Self-Directors

FADE OUT
Amos Vogel by Michael Chaiken

ENCORE
Margaret by Violet Lucca

SOUND & VISION
Searching for Sugar Man by Chris Norris & Brent Green by Chris Chang

A FACE IN THE CROWD
Beverly Michaels by Chuck Stephens

CRITICS' CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases

FURTHER RESEARCH
Dave Kehr on William K. Howard

FESTIVALS
Cannes reports from Amy Taubin, Joumane Chahine, Richard Peña, Marco Grosoli, and Gavin Smith

SCREENINGS
A Burning Hot Summer by Kent Jones, Killer Joe by Brynn White, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon by Dan Sullivan, Farewell, My Queen by Kristin M. Jones

SHORT TAKES
Almayer's Folly by Nicolas Rapold, Beloved by Chris Chang, Chicken with Plums by Violet Lucca, Little White Lies by Laura Kern, Unforgivable by Chris Chang, The Well-Digger's Daughter by Nicolas Rapold

HOME MOVIES 
Show People, Numéro deux & Ici et ailleurs, Revolution: The Director's Cut, The Devil's Needle & Other Tales of Vice and Redemption, Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr., A New Leaf, Yellow Submarine, Silver City & Denver and Rio Grande, Ganja & Hess, Claudio Caldini: Experimental Films 1975-1982

READINGS
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film, Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture, Film After Film (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema)

CLOSING SHOTS
Who's who at recent Film Society events

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