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Features

Wake Up and Smell the New World

By Chris Fujiwara
June 1, 2011
Making John Waters and Walter Reade Jr. proud, the Japanese revive smelling what you see

Against the Grain: Ram Gopal Varma

By Grady Hendrix
June 1, 2011
Ram Gopal Varma, Bollywood’s most unBollywood director

All in the Family

By Kent Jones
May 31, 2011
The Democratic Humor of Christopher Guest

Best Laid Plans

By Geoffrey O’Brien
May 31, 2011
Fabián Bielinsky’s hypnotic swan song

New Hollywood: Paul Mazursky

By Richard Corliss
May 31, 2011
The Horace with a heart of gold

Riding the Whirlwind: Norman Mailer interview

By Michael Chaiken
May 31, 2011
Norman Mailer talks with Michael Chaiken about his independent filmmaking exploits

The Lives of Others

By Larry Gross
May 31, 2011
Todd Haynes’s anti-biopic I’m Not There is about “Bob Dylan,” not Bob Dylan

Mumblecore: All Talk?

By Amy Taubin
May 31, 2011
Supposedly the voice of its generation, the indie film movement known as Mumblecore has had its 15 minutes. Amy Taubin looks past the hype

The Defiant Defeatist: Eagle Pennell

By Daniel Stuyck
May 31, 2011
The rise and fall of a Texan maverick

NYFF Preview: In the Realm of the Senses

By Tony Rayns
May 30, 2011
From the September/October 1976 issue of Film Comment comes Tony Rayns's review of In the Realm of the Senses, written for the '76 New York Film Festival