Features

The force of Jennifer Jones’s desire overpowered those who sought to possess her

Legendary Japanese New Wave master Nagisa Oshima returns with Gohatto, starring Takeshi Kitano. Chuck Stephens looks at the roots of this mesmerizing, mysterious meditation on samurai death and desire.

Les Idoles finds Pierre Clémenti at the crossroads of pop fabulousness and the Society of the Spectacle

Argentine filmmaker Ariel Rotter’s The Other takes a detour into existential malaise

Che comandante Steven Soderbergh talks strategy and tactics with Amy Taubin

Gus Van Sant’s Milk takes its place alongside a recent spate of cinematic death trips

Silent Light brings the transcendental metaphysics of Mexican provocateur Carlos Reygadas out into the open

A giant of world cinema’s golden age, Satyajit Ray held up a mirror to Bengal’s middle class

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker packs a powerful experiential punch

Adding a touch of noir, the Dardenne Brothers rethink neorealism in Lorna’s Silence