FEATURES
FASSBINDER
By Katja Nicodemus
Controversy over the sanitization of a dead filmmaker’s life
Plus: A statement by Fassbinder’s colleagues
THE DARJEELING LIMITED
By Chris Norris
All aboard Wes Anderson’s soul train
CRUISING
By Melissa Anderson
Is William Friedkin’s 1980 film maudit homophobic or not?
I’M NOT THERE
By Larry Gross
Todd Haynes’s radical, prismatic, exploding Dylan whatsit
SIDNEY LUMET
By Gary Giddins
With Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, the elder statesman of New York moviemaking lands another knockout punch
DAVID CRONENBERG
By Amy Taubin
The director of Eastern Promises on Muslim extremism, the Russian mob, and a certain naked knife fight
JACQUES RIVETTE
By Jonathan Romney
The inscrutable role-playing games of this French master continue with The Duchess of Langeais
KIHACHI OKAMOTO
By Tom Mes
Why this major Japanese director’s career remains unknown in the West
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR’S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Distributor Wanted: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi’s Actress by Amy Taubin, Guy Maddin’s Jolly Corner: Felix Feist’s Deluge, Flashback: Richard Fleischer’s Che! by Alex Cox, Site Specifics: UbuWeb by Paul Fileri
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new and recent releases
ENCORE
Ralph Murphy’s Girl Without a Room by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
SOUND & VISION
Scott Walker by Chris Norris & Day Is Done by Chris Chang
ART OF THE REAL
Heddy Honigmann’s Forever by Paul Arthur
OLAF’S WORLD
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade by Olaf Möller
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Anthony Hopkins by Harlan Jacobson
FESTIVALS
Bergman Week on Fårö by Laura Kern
SCREENINGS
Gone Baby Gone by Geoffrey O’Brien, Feast of Love by Andrew Sarris, Still Life by Richard Combs, The Brave One by Amy Taubin, The Last Winter by John Anderson, and The Untouchable by Paul Fileri
HOME MOVIES
Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934 by Paul Arthur, O Lucky Man! by Gavin Smith, Private Property by Amy Taubin, Witchfinder General, Maitland McDonagh, The First Films of Samuel Fuller by Margaret Barton-Fumo, Mathieu Amalric X 2 by Paul Fileri, Our Hitler, A Film From Germany by Michael Chaiken, Scarecrows by Laura Kern, Negativeland: Our Favorite Things by Jason Gross
READINGS
The Virtual Life of Film by D.N. Rodowick, reviewed by Tom Gunning; Cannes: Inside the World’s Premier Film Festival by Kieron Corless and Chris Darke, reviewed by Manohla Dargis; The Image to Come edited by Diane Dufour and Serge Toubiana, reviewed by Chris Chang; Manoel de Oliveira by Randal Johnson, reviewed by Jonathan Rosenbaum
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who at recent Film Society events
