FEATURES
MAJOR DUNDEE
By Richard Combs
Minor Peckinpah reduc
KINGS AND QUEENS
By Nathan Lee
Desplechin rules
Arnaud holds court: an interview
By Gavin Smith
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
By J. Hoberman
The pumping icon
MICHAEL POWELL
By Richard Combs
Rethinking a British legend
THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES
By Chris Darke
The politics of fear debunked
TROPICAL MALADY
By Kong RIthdee
A fever dream from Thailand
ANDREW SARRIS
By Kent Jones
Fifty years at the movies
CHOR YUEN
By David Chute
Hong Kong’s wuxia king
JEAN ROUCH
By Sam DiLorio
The anthropologist as auteur
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR’S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Distributor Wanted: Claire Denis’s The Intruder by Amy Taubin, Guy Maddin’s Jolly Corner: Warren WIlliam, Guilty Pleasures by John Leguizamo
OLAF’S WORLD
Mia Taanila by Olaf Möller
HOT SET
Slumming by Stefan Grissemann
SOUND & VISION
We Jam Econo by Chris Chang & Sarah Morris’s Hollywood Hills Doc Los Angeles by Nathan Lee
DISCOVERY
Rise by Wesley Morris
FESTIVALS
Berlin by Olaf Möller, New Directors/New Films by Kristin M. Jones
SCREENINGS
Kingsom of Heaven by Geoffrey O’Brien, Me and You and Everyone We Know by Melissa Anderson, Mysterious Skin by Michael Koresky, Writer of O by Paul Arthur, Tony Takitani by Amy Taubin
READINGS
A Line of Sight by Steve Ankar
IN BRIEF
Chris Marker: Memories of the Future by Mikael Astronomeow, International Motion Picture Almanac by Gavin Smith, Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology by Chris Chang
HOME MOVIES
Hustle by Gavin Smith, Andrej Wajda: Three War Films by Chris Chang, The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle by Jason Gross, Kinsey by Laura Kern, The Blood Gulch Chronicles by Graham Leggat, Dirty War by Gavin Smith
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who are recent Film Society events
ONLINE EXCLUSIVES
Johnnie To Interviewed
By Grady Hendrix
Mean streets
My Summer of Love
By Kristin M. Jones