FEATURES
GONE GIRL
By Amy Taubin
David Fincher discusses the existential perils of coupling
LISANDRO ALONSO
By Quintín
Argentina’s minimalist maverick has a breakthrough with Jauja
WHIPLASH
By Chris Norris
Musician and teacher play with fire in Damien Chazelle’s Music School Confidential
MR. TURNER
By Jonathan Romney
Mike Leigh’s mighty flesh-and-blood portrait of an artist and an era
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ
By Robert Horton
“Too perfect a writer to be a perfect director”? Not so fast…
KEVIN KLINE
By Eric Hynes
Acting is exploration, explains the irrepressible star of The Last of Robin Hood and My Old Lady
GAME CHANGERS
By Paul Schrader
The Close-Up: part two of a technological history of cinema
POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL
By J. Hoberman
Andy Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick, in and out of focus
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR’S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Hot Property: Bruno Dumont’s Li’l Quinquin by Nicolas Rapold, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die: Anthony M. Lanza’s The Glory Stompers, Site Specifics: cléo journal by Violet Lucca, Trivial Top 20®: Best Films with a Body Part in the Title, Restoration Row by Max Nelson
FADE OUT
Robert Gardner by Irina Leimbacher
OLAF’S WORLD
Nils Malmros by Olaf Möller
SOUND & VISION
Alexandre Desplat by Robert Horton and The Dark Galleries by Adrian Curry
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
ENCORE
Lewis Allen’s Desert Fury by Ronald Bergan
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Timothy Spall by Harlan Jacobson
SCREENINGS
Maps to the Stars by Nathan Lee, Listen Up Philip by Max Nelson, Bird People by Matthew Connolly, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears by Michael Atkinson
SHORT TAKES
Canopy by Jared Eisenstat, The Overnighters by Nicolas Rapold, Stop the Pounding Heart by Justin Stewart, The Two Faces of January by Steven Mears, Wetlands by Nicolas Rapold, The Zero Theorem by Laura Kern
HOME MOVIES
The Essential Jacques Demy by Michelle Orange, The Lego Movie by David Filipi, Favorites of the Moon by Max Nelson, I Vinti (The Vanquished) by Jared Eisenstat, Modern Life by Steven Mears, I’ve Always Loved You by Patrick Friel, Herzog: The Collection by Gavin Smith, Queen Margot by Sarah Mankoff, The Cosmopolitans by Morgan Wilcock
READINGS
Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television by Jean-Luc Godard, reviewed by Nico Baumbach; Hou Hsiao-hsien edited by Richard I. Suchenski, reviewed by Andrew Chan; Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities by Geraldine Pratt & Rose Marie San Juan, reviewed by Michael Joshua Rowin; Consumed by David Cronenberg, reviewed by Nathan Lee
GRAPHIC DETAIL
Hisamitsu Noguchi by Adrian Curry
