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Features

Deadly Youth

By Chuck Stephens
May 26, 2011
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.

In the Realm of the Censors

By James Bouras
May 26, 2011
On the censorship laws which prevented the screening of Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses at the 14th New York Film Festival

Revolt Into Style: Les Idoles

By Sam Di Iorio
May 26, 2011
Les Idoles finds Pierre Clémenti at the crossroads of pop fabulousness and the Society of the Spectacle

The Man Who Wasn’t There

By Pablo Suárez, Translated by Marcela Goglio
May 26, 2011
Argentine filmmaker Ariel Rotter’s The Other takes a detour into existential malaise

Guerilla Filmmaking on an Epic Scale

By Amy Taubin
May 26, 2011
Che comandante Steven Soderbergh talks strategy and tactics with Amy Taubin

Fatalistic Tendency

By Nathan Lee
May 26, 2011
Gus Van Sant’s Milk takes its place alongside a recent spate of cinematic death trips

On Heaven as it is in Earth

By José Teodoro
May 26, 2011
Silent Light brings the transcendental metaphysics of Mexican provocateur Carlos Reygadas out into the open

Master of the House

By Nicolas Rapold
May 26, 2011
A giant of world cinema’s golden age, Satyajit Ray held up a mirror to Bengal’s middle class

Hard Wired

By Amy Taubin
May 25, 2011
Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker packs a powerful experiential punch

Against the Grain

By Thom Andersen
May 19, 2011
Adding a touch of noir, the Dardenne Brothers rethink neorealism in Lorna’s Silence