FEATURES
THE PIANO TEACHER
By Richard Combs
The latest addition to Michael Haneke’s disturbing oeuvre, starring Isabelle Huppert, analyzes sexual perversity and positions the director at the forefront of a new-style European art cinema
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
By Kent Jones
The Film Society’s 2002 Gala honoree
THE GODFATHER
By Richard Combs
…and his signature family drama
JORIS IVENS
By Paul Arthur
One of the world’s most widely traveled filmmakers is also one of the most forgotten. A nationally touring retrospective offers an opportunity to assess his crucial contribution to the documentary form
VANILLA SKY
By Howard Hampton
L. Ron Hubbard went from sci-fi author to founder of America’s largest and most litigious cult. Card-carrying member Tom Cruise’s latest film has literally mind-boggling elements linking it to the practice of Scientology itself
GROSSES GLOSS
By Jeffrey Spaulding
The inside dope, smoking guns, and bottom lines of 2001’s box-office results. Including a pair of book adaptations you just may have heard about
INDUSTRY
By Roger Smith
Is the movie business anal-compulsive or manic-depressive?
SUNDANCE
By Gavin Smith, Rachel Rosen, and Nicole Armour
Before the medal seekers hit the slopes, Utah hosted a somewhat different competition
ROTTERDAM
By Chuck Stephens
The world’s most filmmaker-friendly festival
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR’S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Frame Ups: Names to Know by Serge Kaganski, Guilty Pleasures by Olivier Assayas, Hot Set: Far From Heaven by Amy Taubin, Journal: Paris, Distributor Wanted: R-XMAS by Amy Taubin, Discovery: Przemyslaw Shemie Reut by Chris Chang, First Look: Eight Women by Frédéric Bonnaud, Off the Shelf by David Chute
OSCAR PREDIX
A dozen fearless critics place their bets
SOUND & VISION
The Ghost World soundtrack by Jason Gross & Gregory Crewdson by Chris Chang
CRITICS CHOICE
Eight Critics rate 25 new releases
STORYBOARD
“War Movies” by William T. Vollmann
READERS’ POLL
Your Top 20 Films of 2001
REVIEW
Les Destinées by Kristin Jones, Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India by David Chute, Human Nature by Alice Lovejoy, Esther Kahn by Jessica Winter, Reviews in Brief
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