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From the July/August 1986 issue: Tobe Hooper discusses his career and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

On Isadora, The Biggest Dancer in the World, Women in Love, The Music Lovers, and more

From the November/December 1975 issue of Film Comment comes Stephen Farber's dissection of Russell's infamous fantasias

“The actors who appealed to me were the characters who were usually lost way down the playbill. People like Franklin Pangborn, Billy De Wolfe, Van Heflin. No one had much to say about their technique, but I learned more…

A crime of passion and a tale of animal love—as related by Errol Morris

On January 12, 2000, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Young Friends of Film hosted their first gala tribute at the Walter Reade Theater. The initial honoree was actor Kevin Bacon

Presence, Versatility, Achievement

Sidney Lumet, who directed him to two of his eight Oscar nominations in Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon, recalls that "if the day's work demanded a lunatic, he was a lunatic all day long." For its 27th annual Gala, the Film Society of Lincoln Center honors Michael Corleone and Richard III, Lowell Bergman and Ricky Roma, Carlito Brigante and Tony Montana, Lion and Sonny and Lefty Ruggiero, and by all means Al Pacino.

Terrence Malick's opus on modern warfare, The Thin Red Line

A serene middle-aged man sits down at what is apparently a rolltop desk. Around him, shallow darkness, and the arms and torso of an assistant standing by his side. The man pulls up the rolltop (the sound of wood…