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Features

Escaping the Overlook

By B. Kite
November 6, 2012
Room 237's examination of the obsessions inspired by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining raises as many questions as it answers

Apocalypse Now: Heart Transplant

By Brooks Riley
October 22, 2012
From Joseph Conrad’s story to John Milius’s script to Francis Coppola’s film

Seeing the World: An Interview with Richard Peña

By Kent Jones
September 13, 2012
How Richard Peña transformed The New York Film Festival without changing it

Native Son, Lost and Found

By Edgardo C. Krebs
September 11, 2012
It’s a Noir Thing

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