A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
By Oliver Sacks
A neurological take on Powell & Pressburger’s heavenly fantasy
JIM JARMUSCH
By Gavin Smith
The director of The Limits of Control talks about going out on a limb. Plus: Kent Jones on a trance film for our times
THE HURT LOCKER
By Amy Taubin
What makes Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War procedural tick
SECOND IMPRESSIONS
By Phillip Lopate
Reversals of opinion, about-faces, flip-flops, and other acts of wanton revisionism. Plus: nine critcs fess up to changing their minds
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
By Kent Jones
Moves rarely depict the realities of the workplace but Ernst Lubitchs’s 1940 classic gets it right
CINEMA’S AFTERLIFE
If cinema as we know it ended sometime last century, it lives on as a succession of haunted screens, unmade films, and empty rooms
SOUND & VISION
Peer Raben by Chris Chang & Jane & Louise Wilson’s Kubrick installation by Chris Darke
BREIF ENCOUNTERS
Agnès Jaoui by Harlan Jacobson
ENCORE The Small Back Room by Megan Ratner
FESTIVALS
Berlin by Olaf Möller
SCREENINGS The Girlfriend Experience by Melissa Anderson; Away We Go by David Zuckerman;Departures by Tony Rayns; Pontytpool by José Teodoro; Tetro by Nathan Lee; Chéri by Phillip Lopate; Three Monkeys by Can Eskinazi
SHORT TAKES Easy Virtue by Laura Kern, Eldorado by Nicolas Rapold, Empty Nest by Nicolas Rapold, Food, Inc. by Nicolas Rapold, Moon by Laura Kern, O’Horten by Laura Kern
HOME MOVIES Pigs, Pimps and Prostitutes: Criterion’s Imamura box set
May/June 2009
FEATURES
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
By Oliver Sacks
A neurological take on Powell & Pressburger’s heavenly fantasy
JIM JARMUSCH
By Gavin Smith
The director of The Limits of Control talks about going out on a limb. Plus: Kent Jones on a trance film for our times
THE HURT LOCKER
By Amy Taubin
What makes Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War procedural tick
SECOND IMPRESSIONS
By Phillip Lopate
Reversals of opinion, about-faces, flip-flops, and other acts of wanton revisionism. Plus: nine critcs fess up to changing their minds
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
By Kent Jones
Moves rarely depict the realities of the workplace but Ernst Lubitchs’s 1940 classic gets it right
CINEMA’S AFTERLIFE
If cinema as we know it ended sometime last century, it lives on as a succession of haunted screens, unmade films, and empty rooms
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR’S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Hot Property: Can Go Through Skin, Alex Cox’s 1,000 Ways to Die: Don’t Touch the White Woman!, Site Specifics: The National Film Board of Canada, The Trivial Top 20® (expanded to 40): Best Directors Who Died Young
OLAF’S WORLD
Vlado Škafar by Olaf Möller
CRITICS CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
SOUND & VISION
Peer Raben by Chris Chang & Jane & Louise Wilson’s Kubrick installation by Chris Darke
BREIF ENCOUNTERS
Agnès Jaoui by Harlan Jacobson
ENCORE
The Small Back Room by Megan Ratner
FESTIVALS
Berlin by Olaf Möller
SCREENINGS
The Girlfriend Experience by Melissa Anderson; Away We Go by David Zuckerman; Departures by Tony Rayns; Pontytpool by José Teodoro; Tetro by Nathan Lee; Chéri by Phillip Lopate; Three Monkeys by Can Eskinazi
SHORT TAKES
Easy Virtue by Laura Kern, Eldorado by Nicolas Rapold, Empty Nest by Nicolas Rapold, Food, Inc. by Nicolas Rapold, Moon by Laura Kern, O’Horten by Laura Kern
HOME MOVIES
Pigs, Pimps and Prostitutes: Criterion’s Imamura box set
READINGS
Thorold Dickenson: A World of Film, Life as We Show It
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who at recent Film Society events
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