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Features

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master

By Kent Jones
September 10, 2012
In The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson tells a big American story about two men who can't see past each other

Executive Action

By J. Hoberman
September 1, 2012
The 1933 quasi-fascist presidential fantasy of Gabriel Over the White House

The Ephemeral Worlds of Claude Sautet

By Bertrand Tavernier
July 30, 2012
Tavernier recalls the unique talents of Claude Sautet

Bette Davis

By James McCourt
July 16, 2012
To accompany Larry Cohen's piece, James McCourt's tribute to Ms. Bette Davis from the March/April 1978 issue

Blowback

By Scott Foundas
July 5, 2012
A rejuvenated Oliver Stone brings more than one war home to roost in his drug thriller Savages

No Method to His Madness

By Richard Schickel
July 2, 2012
Here's to the rest of him

Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris

By Kent Jones
June 21, 2012
Kent Jones re-examines the 50-year career of Andrew Sarris, the man who brought auteurism to America

Maurice Pialat’s We Won’t Grow Old Together

By Dave Kehr
June 4, 2012
The end of the affair, with emotional brutality intact, in Pialat’s highly personal 1972 film

Second Thoughts on Stroheim

By Jonathan Rosenbaum
May 29, 2012
An attempt to isolate, but not dismantle, the legend

From Stupefaction to Just Plain Stupid

By jwham
April 6, 2012