NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
By Geoffrey O’Brien
Joel and Ethan Coen’s hardboiled heartland
JOE STRUMMER: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN
By Howard Hampton
The legendary frontman of a band that fused music with movies
INGMAR BERGMAN
By Kent Jones
The critical bind of the brand-name filmmaker
NOAH BAUMBACH
By Kristin M. Jones Margot at the Wedding’s mordant comedy of family dysfunction
EAGLE PENNELL
By Daniel Stuyck
The rise and fall of a Texan maverick
MUMBLECORE
By Amy Taubin
Pros and cons of the much-hyped neo-indie movement
JUNO
By Starlee Kine
A director and his precocious teen protagonist come into their own
BATTLE FOR HADITHA VS. REDACTED
By Paul Arthur
To live and die in Iraq
DEPARTMENTS
OPENING SHOTS Distributor Wanted: Useless by Chris Chang, The Devil is a Sissy by Guy Maddin, A Wonderful World by Alex Cox
GUILTY PLEASURES
Writer-director Richard LaGravenese’s 10 deadly sins
FADE OUT
Remembering Edward Yang, one of the masters of modern Taiwanese cinema, by Tony Rayns
SOUND & VISION Seven Easy Pieces by Philip Brophy, the films of Richard Serra by Chris Chang
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Eight film critics review 25 new releases
ENCORE Between the Lines by Rob Nelson
ART OF THE REAL
Celebrating 20 years of P.B.S.’s P.O.V. by Paul Arthur
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Ridley Scott by Harlan Jacobson
OLAF’S WORLD
The unclassifiable films of Indian up-and-comer Amit Dutta, by Olaf Moller
PLAYBILL
Part three of the movie-poster travelogue, by Lorenzo Buj
FESTIVALS
Venice by Olaf Moller, Toronto by Mark Olsen and Nicole Armour
SCREENINGS Southland Tales by Amy Taubin, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Laura Kern, Persepolis by Sam Adams, The Walker by Rob Nelson, Atonement by Graham Fuller
HOME MOVIES
New DVD releases include The Charles Burnett Collection by Megan Ratner, Valentino: Rediscovering an Icon of Silent Film by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, and Ford at Fox by Kent Jones.
IN BRIEF The Star Machine by Robert Horton, Staring Back by Philip Lopate, Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters by Vivian Sobchack
November/December 2007
FEATURES
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
By Geoffrey O’Brien
Joel and Ethan Coen’s hardboiled heartland
JOE STRUMMER: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN
By Howard Hampton
The legendary frontman of a band that fused music with movies
INGMAR BERGMAN
By Kent Jones
The critical bind of the brand-name filmmaker
NOAH BAUMBACH
By Kristin M. Jones
Margot at the Wedding’s mordant comedy of family dysfunction
EAGLE PENNELL
By Daniel Stuyck
The rise and fall of a Texan maverick
MUMBLECORE
By Amy Taubin
Pros and cons of the much-hyped neo-indie movement
JUNO
By Starlee Kine
A director and his precocious teen protagonist come into their own
BATTLE FOR HADITHA VS. REDACTED
By Paul Arthur
To live and die in Iraq
DEPARTMENTS
OPENING SHOTS
Distributor Wanted: Useless by Chris Chang, The Devil is a Sissy by Guy Maddin, A Wonderful World by Alex Cox
GUILTY PLEASURES
Writer-director Richard LaGravenese’s 10 deadly sins
FADE OUT
Remembering Edward Yang, one of the masters of modern Taiwanese cinema, by Tony Rayns
SOUND & VISION
Seven Easy Pieces by Philip Brophy, the films of Richard Serra by Chris Chang
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Eight film critics review 25 new releases
ENCORE
Between the Lines by Rob Nelson
ART OF THE REAL
Celebrating 20 years of P.B.S.’s P.O.V. by Paul Arthur
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Ridley Scott by Harlan Jacobson
OLAF’S WORLD
The unclassifiable films of Indian up-and-comer Amit Dutta, by Olaf Moller
PLAYBILL
Part three of the movie-poster travelogue, by Lorenzo Buj
FESTIVALS
Venice by Olaf Moller, Toronto by Mark Olsen and Nicole Armour
SCREENINGS
Southland Tales by Amy Taubin, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Laura Kern, Persepolis by Sam Adams, The Walker by Rob Nelson, Atonement by Graham Fuller
HOME MOVIES
New DVD releases include The Charles Burnett Collection by Megan Ratner, Valentino: Rediscovering an Icon of Silent Film by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, and Ford at Fox by Kent Jones.
IN BRIEF
The Star Machine by Robert Horton, Staring Back by Philip Lopate, Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters by Vivian Sobchack
CLOSING SHOTS
Photos from the 2007 NYFF
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