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Features

A Matter of Skin. . .

By Kathleen Murphy
September 1, 1999
Catherine Breillat's metaphysics of film and flesh

How to Fall Into Oblivion and Take Your Movie With You

By Milton Moses Ginsberg
January 1, 1999
The maverick filmmaker reflects on his rediscovered classic Coming Apart

Mind Over Matter: David Cronenberg Interviewed

By Gavin Smith
March 1, 1997
Canada's radical director David Cronenberg interviewed upon the release of Crash

The Waters of Alexandria

By Dave Kehr
November 1, 1996
The films of Youssef Chahine

Gentlemen Prefer Haynes

By Chuck Stephens
July 1, 1995
Of dolls, dioramas, and disease: Todd Haynes’s Safe passage

Ousmane Sembène: “We are no longer in the era of prophets”

By Michael Atkinson
July 1, 1993
Thirty years of African cinema, from Borom Sarret to Guelwaar: a career appreciation

The Color of Home

By Kathleen Murphy
September 1, 1992
Claire Denis gets her bearings in Chocolat and No Fear, No Die

Altman ’91

By Beverly Walker
January 1, 1991
What's all this "comeback" hoohah? The American cinema's great maverick has never slowed down

Out to Lynch

By David Chute
September 1, 1986
David Lynch (1946–2025). Read David Chute‘s 1986 interview with the visionary filmmaker, on the making of Blue Velvet

Forget the Net, Love the Fall

By Jay Cocks
November 1, 1985
A review of John Boorman's book about the making of The Emerald Forest