ALEXANDER PAYNE
By Scott Foundas
A connoisseur of discontent and mid-life crisis American-style outdoes himself with The Descendants
PINA
By Deborah Jowitt
Wim Wenders captures the convulsive choreography of the late Pina Bausch
KIM LONGINOTTO
By Nicolas Rapold
In Pink Saris, her portrait of a women's rights activist in rural India, this English filmmaker continues to represent the underrepresented
MISERY CINEMA
By Graham Fuller
British cinema’s ongoing fixation with wretched lives, bleak circumstances, and all things depressing
FILM NOVELIZATIONS
By Grady Hendrix
A brief history and consideration of a singularly cinematic literary genre
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT
By Richard Combs
Delving into the dark side of the Novelle Vague’s poster boy
OPENING SHOTS
News, Hot Property, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die, Site Specifics, The Trivial Top 20®, Carrie Fisher’s Guilty Pleasures
FADE OUT
George Kuchar
SOUND & VISION Dragonslayer & James Franco
CRITICS' CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
FURTHER RESEARCH
Dave Kehr on Edward L. Cahn
FESTIVALS
Venice, Vancouver, Toronto, and Locarno
SCREENINGS Coriolanus, The Artist, Pariah, The Skin I Live In, Carnage, Eames: The Architect & the Painter, Into the Abyss, Shame + Sleeping Beauty, and Tomboy
HOME MOVIES
Our guide for the shut-in cinephile
READINGS Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow, Believing Is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) by Errol Morris, and Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares by John Landis
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who at recent Film Society events
November/December 2011
FEATURES
ALEXANDER PAYNE
By Scott Foundas
A connoisseur of discontent and mid-life crisis American-style outdoes himself with The Descendants
PINA
By Deborah Jowitt
Wim Wenders captures the convulsive choreography of the late Pina Bausch
KIM LONGINOTTO
By Nicolas Rapold
In Pink Saris, her portrait of a women's rights activist in rural India, this English filmmaker continues to represent the underrepresented
MISERY CINEMA
By Graham Fuller
British cinema’s ongoing fixation with wretched lives, bleak circumstances, and all things depressing
FILM NOVELIZATIONS
By Grady Hendrix
A brief history and consideration of a singularly cinematic literary genre
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT
By Richard Combs
Delving into the dark side of the Novelle Vague’s poster boy
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR'S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Hot Property, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die, Site Specifics, The Trivial Top 20®, Carrie Fisher’s Guilty Pleasures
FADE OUT
George Kuchar
SOUND & VISION
Dragonslayer & James Franco
CRITICS' CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
FURTHER RESEARCH
Dave Kehr on Edward L. Cahn
FESTIVALS
Venice, Vancouver, Toronto, and Locarno
SCREENINGS
Coriolanus, The Artist, Pariah, The Skin I Live In, Carnage, Eames: The Architect & the Painter, Into the Abyss, Shame + Sleeping Beauty, and Tomboy
HOME MOVIES
Our guide for the shut-in cinephile
READINGS
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow, Believing Is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) by Errol Morris, and Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares by John Landis
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who at recent Film Society events
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