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Combat Rocker

By Graham Fuller
May 31, 2011
An interview with Joe Strummer from the July/August 1987 issue

In Brief: Staring Back

By Phillip Lopate
May 31, 2011
An extended review of Chris Marker's Staring Back

Review: The Walker

By Rob Nelson
May 31, 2011
(Paul Schrader, U.S./U.K., 2007)

Distributor Wanted: Useless

By Chris Chang
May 31, 2011
Mannequin

Mumblecore: All Talk?

By Amy Taubin
May 31, 2011
Supposedly the voice of its generation, the indie film movement known as Mumblecore has had its 15 minutes. Amy Taubin looks past the hype

The Defiant Defeatist: Eagle Pennell

By Daniel Stuyck
May 31, 2011
The rise and fall of a Texan maverick

NYFF Preview: In the Realm of the Senses

By Tony Rayns
May 30, 2011
From the September/October 1976 issue of Film Comment comes Tony Rayns's review of In the Realm of the Senses, written for the '76 New York Film Festival

Turin Film Festival 2008

By Nicolas Rapold
May 30, 2011
The more things changed at the Turin Film Festival the more they stayed the same—only not as good

Eletrik Alchemy: Claire Denis Films Sonic Youth

By Daniel Stuyck
May 30, 2011
Everything about the collaboration between Claire Denis and Sonic Youth makes sense

Child’s Play

By Patrick Hebron
May 30, 2011
Why Michael Bay’s Transformers is less than meets the eye