KEVIN JEROME EVERSON By Irina Leimbacher A prolific chronicler of black working-class life marks time in 16mm A DANGEROUS METHOD By Amy Taubin Cronenberg’s treatment of Freud, Jung, and the woman who came between them
MELANCHOLIA By Nicolas Rapold When worlds collide: Lars von Trier’s new film ends with a bang
GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD By Chris Norris Scorsese reveals the Quiet Beatle standing behind Lennon and McCartney
AKI KAURISMÄKI By Peter von Bagh Finland’s finest explains why Le Havre is his most hopeful film yet SODANKYLÄ FOREVER By Nico Baumbach A festival’s mosaic history of cinema in the words of 78 world-class directors THE TURIN HORSE By Jonathan Rosenbaum Misery loves company in the cinema of Béla Tarr
BEN RIVERS By Jonathan Romney The ongoing explorations of a man and his Bolex culminate in the feature-length Two Years at Sea
THE GR8 DISCONNECT :( By Kent Jones Film culture and industrial cinema, waving or drowning? Comment here:
STEVEN SODERBERGH By Gavin Smith An interview with Contagion’s workaholic wunderkind-made-good
EDITOR'S LETTER OPENING SHOTS News, Hot Property, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die, Site Specifics, The Trivial Top 20®, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s Guilty Pleasures
FADE OUT Robert Sklar
FURTHER RESEARCH Dave Kehr on Alfred Santell
SOUND & VISION John Turturro’s Passione & Ryan Trecartin CRITICS' CHOICE Eight critics rate 25 new releases
OLAF'S WORLD Michael Glawogger ENCORE Lord Love a Duck SCREENINGS Restless, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Like Crazy, The Debt, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Drive, Machine Gun Preacher, Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, and The Skin I Live In HOME MOVIES Our guide for the shut-in cinephile READINGS The Filming of Modern Life by Malcolm Turvey and more CLOSING SHOTS Who’s who at recent Film Society events
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September/October 2011
FEATURES
KEVIN JEROME EVERSON
By Irina Leimbacher
A prolific chronicler of black working-class life marks time in 16mm
A DANGEROUS METHOD
By Amy Taubin
Cronenberg’s treatment of Freud, Jung, and the woman who came between them
MELANCHOLIA
By Nicolas Rapold
When worlds collide: Lars von Trier’s new film ends with a bang
GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
By Chris Norris
Scorsese reveals the Quiet Beatle standing behind Lennon and McCartney
AKI KAURISMÄKI
By Peter von Bagh
Finland’s finest explains why Le Havre is his most hopeful film yet
SODANKYLÄ FOREVER
By Nico Baumbach
A festival’s mosaic history of cinema in the words of 78 world-class directors
THE TURIN HORSE
By Jonathan Rosenbaum
Misery loves company in the cinema of Béla Tarr
BEN RIVERS
By Jonathan Romney
The ongoing explorations of a man and his Bolex culminate in the feature-length Two Years at Sea
THE GR8 DISCONNECT :(
By Kent Jones
Film culture and industrial cinema, waving or drowning? Comment here:
STEVEN SODERBERGH
By Gavin Smith
An interview with Contagion’s workaholic wunderkind-made-good
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR'S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Hot Property, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die, Site Specifics, The Trivial Top 20®, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s Guilty Pleasures
FADE OUT
Robert Sklar
FURTHER RESEARCH
Dave Kehr on Alfred Santell
SOUND & VISION
John Turturro’s Passione & Ryan Trecartin
CRITICS' CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
OLAF'S WORLD
Michael Glawogger
ENCORE
Lord Love a Duck
SCREENINGS
Restless, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Like Crazy, The Debt, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Drive, Machine Gun Preacher, Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, and The Skin I Live In
HOME MOVIES
Our guide for the shut-in cinephile
READINGS
The Filming of Modern Life by Malcolm Turvey and more
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who at recent Film Society events
Purchase this issue