Read issue Subscribe to access more than 300 print issues of Film Comment in our comprehensively indexed, searchable archive. May-June 2009 Read online Site Specifics: National Film Board of Canada Get up close and personal with Canadian culture by Paul Fileri Site Specifics: National Film Board of Canada Hard Wired: The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker packs a powerful experiential punch by Amy Taubin Hard Wired: The Hurt Locker Department Editor’s Letter by Gavin Smith Opening Shots by Film Comment Trivial Top 20: Best Directors Who Died Young by Film Comment Critics’ Choice by Film Comment Closing Shots by Photographers Godlis and Carolyn Contino Column Hot Property: Can Go Through Skin by Chris Chang 1,000 Ways to Die: Don’t Touch the White Woman! by Alex Cox Olaf’s World: Vlado Skafar by Olaf Möller Sound & Vision: Peer Raben by Chris Chang Sound & Vision: Jane and Louise Wilson by Chris Darke Brief Encounters: Agnès Jaoui by Harlan Jacobson Encore: The Small Back Room by Megan Ratner Feature A Matter of Life and Death by Oliver Sacks The Limits of Control: A Trance Film for Our Times by Kent Jones Second Impressions On changing one's mind about a movie by Phillip Lopate Second Impressions: Critics Fess Up by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Nathan Lee, Richard Combs, Andrew Sarris and Kent Jones The Shop Around the Corner by Kent Jones Cinema’s Afterlife by Chris Petit Interview Jim Jarmusch by Gavin Smith Festival Coverage Berlin Film Festival: Business As Usual by Olaf Möller Screenings Departures by Tony Rayns Away We Go by David Zuckerman Pontypool by José Teodoro Tetro by Nathan Lee The Girlfriend Experience by Melissa Anderson Chéri by Phillip Lopate Three Monkeys by Can Eskinazi Short Takes by Laura Kern and Nicolas Rapold Home Movies 3 Films by Shohei Imamura by Nicolas Rapold Man Hunt by Paul Brunick 100 Feet by Laura Kern Nénette and Boni by Evan Davis Zabriskie Point by David Zuckerman Parade by Patrick Friel Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé by Nicole Armour In the Realm of the Senses & Empire of Passion by Paul Fileri Lookin’ to Get Out by Kent Jones Readings In Brief by Kelly Reichardt and Peter Tonguette Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film, Life as We Show It by Geoffrey O’Brien Life as We Show It: Writing on Film by Nicola Evans
Read issue Subscribe to access more than 300 print issues of Film Comment in our comprehensively indexed, searchable archive. May-June 2009
Read issue Subscribe to access more than 300 print issues of Film Comment in our comprehensively indexed, searchable archive.
Site Specifics: National Film Board of Canada Get up close and personal with Canadian culture by Paul Fileri Site Specifics: National Film Board of Canada
Site Specifics: National Film Board of Canada Get up close and personal with Canadian culture by Paul Fileri
Hard Wired: The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker packs a powerful experiential punch by Amy Taubin Hard Wired: The Hurt Locker
Hard Wired: The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker packs a powerful experiential punch by Amy Taubin
Second Impressions: Critics Fess Up by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Nathan Lee, Richard Combs, Andrew Sarris and Kent Jones
