FEATURES
ALEXANDER PAYNE
By Scott Foundas
A connoisseur of discontent and mid-life crisis American-style outdoes himself with The Descendants
PINA
By Deborah Jowitt
Wim Wenders captures the convulsive choreography of the late Pina Bausch
KIM LONGINOTTO
By Nicolas Rapold
In Pink Saris, her portrait of a women’s rights activist in rural India, this English filmmaker continues to represent the underrepresented
MISERY CINEMA
By Graham Fuller
British cinema’s ongoing fixation with wretched lives, bleak circumstances, and all things depressing
FILM NOVELIZATIONS
By Grady Hendrix
A brief history and consideration of a singularly cinematic literary genre
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT
By Richard Combs
Delving into the dark side of the Novelle Vague’s poster boy
DEPARTMENTS
OPENING SHOTS
News, Hot Property: Ruben Östlund’s Play by Chris Chang, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die: Basil Dearden’s All Night Long, Site Specifics: Art of the Title by Jesse P. Finnegan, Carrie Fisher’s Guilty Pleasures
FADE OUT
George Kuchar by Chuck Stephens
SOUND & VISION
Dragonslayer by Chris Chang & James Franco by Wesley Morris
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
FURTHER RESEARCH
Dave Kehr on Edward L. Cahn
FESTIVALS
Venice by Olaf Möller, Vancouver by Chuck Stephens, Toronto by Marc Olsen, Nicole Armour, and Gavin Smith, and Locarno by Chris Darke
SCREENINGS
Coriolanus by Tony Pipolo, The Artist by Laura Kern, Pariah by Ina Archer, The Skin I Live In by José Teodoro
SHORT TAKES
Carnage by Nicolas Rapold, Eames: The Architect & the Painter by Chris Chang, Into the Abyss by Nicolas Rapold, Shame + Sleeping Beauty by Laura Kern, Tomboy by Chris Chang
HOME MOVIES
Ken Loach at the BBC by Graham Fuller, The Nickel Ride by R. Emmet Sweeney, Pulp Fiction & Jackie Brown by Jonathan Robbins, Island of Lost Souls by Margaret Barton-Fumo, Three Amigos! by Sarah Mankoff, Brighton Rock by David Louis Zuckerman, Limitless by Chris Chang, Identification of a Woman by Violet Lucca, Sleep Furiously by Nicolas Rapold
READINGS
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow, reviewed by Phillip Lopate; Believing Is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) by Errol Morris, reviewed by Chris Chang; Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares by John Landis, reviewed by Laura Kern
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who at recent Film Society events
ONLINE EXCLUSIVES
Interview: Paddy Considine by Graham Fuller
Festivals: Reykjavik by Laura Kern
