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Working Class Act

By Harlan Jacobson
May 31, 2011
Indie poster boy Steve Buscemi on filmmaking, celebrity culture, and putting out fires

New Hollywood: Paul Mazursky

By Richard Corliss
May 31, 2011
The Horace with a heart of gold

Riding the Whirlwind: Norman Mailer interview

By Michael Chaiken
May 31, 2011
Norman Mailer talks with Michael Chaiken about his independent filmmaking exploits

Fever Pitch: Sicko

By Stuart Klawans
May 31, 2011
The unruly aesthetic of Michael Moore’s health-care call to arms

Guy Maddin’s Jolly Corner: Deluge

By Guy Maddin
May 31, 2011
Guy Maddin on Felix E. Feist’s 1933 Deluge, one of Hollywood’s first eco-apocalyptic speculative exercises

Distributor Wanted: Actresses

By Amy Taubin
May 31, 2011
Love Letter

Olaf’s World: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

By Olaf Möller
May 31, 2011
Exuberant, controversial, spontaneous, and 100% tropicalismo, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade is one of Cinema Novo's most enduring masters

Statement of Fassbinder’s Colleagues

By Film Comment
May 31, 2011
Neither repudiated nor endorsed, a statement by former Fassbinder collaborators about the sanitization of his life and work

The Lives of Others

By Larry Gross
May 31, 2011
Todd Haynes’s anti-biopic I’m Not There is about “Bob Dylan,” not Bob Dylan

Foreign Affairs

By Amy Taubin
May 31, 2011
David Cronenberg talks about his strangely intimate new Russian mafia movie Eastern Promises and Internet snuff films