March/April 2010

FEATURES

GREEN ZONE
By Gavin Smith
Paul Greengrass reveals the recipe for his latest state-of-the-art thriller

NICOLE HOLOFCENER
By Christine Spines
Please Give is the newest and best of this director's candid indictments of female folly

CATHERINE BREILLAT
By Amy Taubin
The intrepid director on her re-envisioning of the Bluebeard tale

DANIEL SCHMID
By Gary Indiana
The haunted, ritualized cinema of the late Swiss director

35TH ANNUAL GROSSES GLOSS
By Donald Wilson
Box-office results for 2009, the year that Avatar conquered the world. Plus: Roger Smith on what James Cameron hath wrought

DEPARTMENTS

EDITOR'S LETTER

OPENING SHOTS
News, Hot Property: The Red Chapel, Alex Cox's 10,000 Ways to Die, Site Specifics: Undercurrent, The Trivial Top 20®, Letters

READER'S POLL
Your best films of 2009 and the decade. Plus: your comments on the best of 2009 and of the decade

OLAF'S WORLD
Cyrus Frisch

SOUND AND VISION
Dogtooth by Philip Brophy & Tim Burton's MoMA Retrospective by Chris Chang

CRITICS' CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases

ENCORE
Dusty and Sweets McGee by Thom Anderson

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Tilda Swinton by Harlan Jacobson

THE ACCIDENTAL AUTEURIST
Andrew Sarris on Eric Rohmer

FESTIVALS
Sundance by Amy Taubin, Laura Kern; Rotterdam by Gavin Smith

SCREENINGS
Greenberg by Scott Foundas, I Love You Phillip Morris by Paul Brunick, No One Knows About Persian Cats by Nicolas Rapold, Mother by Megan Ratner

SHORT TAKES
Brooklyn’s Finest by Chris Chang; The Eclipse by Laura Kern; The Good Heart by Laura Kern; Mid-August Lunch by Nicolas Rapold; Prodigal Sons by Nicolas Rapold; The Secret of Kells by Chris Chang

HOME MOVIES
Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa by Patrick Friel

READINGS
Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince by Kent Jones, Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr by David Ehrenstein

CLOSING SHOTS
Who's who at recent Film Society events

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