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The Body Politic

By Irina Leimbacher
May 29, 2011
The films of Nicolas Klotz interrogate the new world order from the lower depths to the executive suite

A Better Tomorrow

By Robin Wood
May 29, 2011
Lee Isaac Chung’s astonishing debut, Munyurangabo, finds life after death in the killing fields of Rwanda

Ethical Calculus

By Thomas Elsaesser
May 27, 2011
The cross-cultural dilemmas and moral burdens of Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven

Review: Yella

By Chris Darke
May 27, 2011
(Christian Petzold, Germany, 2007)

RZA’s Edge

By Jason Gross
May 27, 2011
The unrepentant pleasures of hip-hop’s martial-arts-inspired superstar

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2008

By Laura Kern
May 27, 2011
Views from the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, awaiting the next great mode of telling the “truth”

Finding Herself

By Molly Haskell
May 27, 2011
The everlasting prime of an acting powerhouse who gracefully eludes definition yet is every inch a star

Interview: Alexander Kluge

By Jan Dawson
May 27, 2011
Alexander Kluge interviewed by Jan Dawson, from the November/December 1974 issue of Film Comment

O LUCKY MAN!

By Raymond Durgnat
May 27, 2011
Or: The Adventures of a Clockwork Cheese

Distributor Wanted: Estômago

By Laura Kern
May 27, 2011
Appetite for Destruction