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Gus Van Sant’s Elephant

Whether going for gold or just keeping busy, the director of Mystic River is the last of the old-school pros

Richard Combs considers the Ozu behind “Our Ozu” on the occasion of the Japanese director’s centennial

As everyone knows, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill has been sliced in two. We thought of publishing one half of our coverage in this issue, and then making you wait a couple months for the climax. Instead, we've opted for mercy, compassion, and forgiveness, and unleashed two of our best writers on Volume 1—after all, two heads are better than none

Like his other films, Secret Things combines elements of melodrama, fantasy, and social realism, investigates questions of power, class, and sexual politics, and evades clear-cut classification. Welcome to the twisted universe of Jean-Claude Brisseau, one of French cinema’s best-kept secrets.

The films of Maurice Pialat

Route 181, a controversial epic documentary about the state of relations between Israelis and Palestinians, scoops up plenty of reality on the ground, while history slips through its fingers

Meet Johnny Staccato, John Cassavetes' hipster TV detective

The Rise and fall and rebirth of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan

Gus Van Sant's Last Days explores the sounds of silence—and suicide