Read issue Subscribe to access more than 300 print issues of Film Comment in our comprehensively indexed, searchable archive. May-June 2012 Department Editor’s Letter by Gavin Smith Trivial Top 20: Best Movies Never Made Best Movies Never Made by Film Comment Critics’ Choice by Film Comment Brief Encounters: Nanni Moretti by Harlan Jacobson Closing Shots by Film Comment Column Hot Property: Donoma by Nicolas Rapold 10,000 Ways to Die: The Zero Hour by Alex Cox Site Specifics: Gravity Hill NEWSREELS Free Assembly by Jesse P. Finnegan Guilty Pleasures by David Wain Encore: Eight Deadly Shots by Film Comment Further Research: John Reinhardt by Dave Kehr Sound: The Phantom Carriage by Andy Battaglia Vision: Jeff Keen by Chris Chang A Face in the Crowd: Ed Lauter The Devil in the Details by Chuck Stephens Feature Louisiana Story: Beasts of the Southern Wild by Scott Foundas AIDS Documentaries by David Ehrenstein Discomfort Zone The Films of Bobcat Goldthwait by Laura Kern Spaghetti Westerns by J. Hoberman Divine Rapture: The Films of Werner Schroeter by Ulrike Sieglohr Five Schroeter Must-Sees by Chuck Stephens HBO Films by Michael Sragow Interview Whit Stillman by Haden Guest Festival Coverage Berlin Film Festival: Back from the Brink Back from the Brink by Olaf Möller South by Southwest Film Festival: The Undecided The Undecided Bet by Mark Asch Screenings The Day He Arrives by Tony Rayns Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, U.S., 2012) by Emma Myers 5 Broken Cameras by Jennifer Dworkin The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry, U.S., 2011) by Max Nelson Bernie by Kent Jones Short Takes by Nicolas Rapold, Violet Lucca and Chris Chang Home Movies A Hollis Frampton Odyssey by Jesse P. Finnegan J. Edgar by Richard Combs Dishonored & Shanghai Express by Chuck Stephens UPA The Jolly Frolics Collection by Dave Filipi Domain by Nathan Lee Cinema Verite by Emma Myers Walking Tall by R. Emmet Sweeney Treme Season 2 by Sophie Blum Through the Weeping Glass by Jonathan Robbins Readings Between-the-Images by Raymond Bellour by Holly Willis In Brief by Dave Filipi, David Ehrenstein and Jonathan Robbins
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Director Interview Steven Soderbergh by Amy Taubin Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering by Violet Lucca Ethan Hawke by Emma Myers Jackie Goss on The Observers by Violet Lucca Joachim Trier, director of Oslo, August 31st by Sophie Blum Did I Forget to Mention the Fourth Dimension? by Violet Lucca Film Review Review: Ted by Violet Lucca Review: Take This Waltz by Sarah Mankoff Review: To Rome with Love by Emma Myers Review: Americano by Sophie Blum Review: Tahrir: Liberation Square by Graham Corrigan Review: Your Sister’s Sister by Dan Sullivan Review: Extraterrestrial by John Wildman Review: Lola Versus by Sarah Mankoff Review: Corpo Celeste by Meredith Slifkin Review: Safety Not Guaranteed by Emma Myers Review: Found Memories by Matthew Connolly Review: Polisse by Sophie Blum Review: Lovely Molly by Sophie Blum Review: Elena by Jonathan Robbins Essay The Anatomy of Anguish: Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) by Violet Lucca How Movies Became Cinema: Andrew Sarris in Seattle Part I by Andrew Sarris How Movies Became Cinema: Andrew Sarris in Seattle Part II by Andrew Sarris Fade Out: Andrew Sarris by Film Comment ↔ (Part One) by B. Kite ↔ (Part Two) by Kent Jones Shooting First: Talking Spaghetti Westerns at the Italian Cultural Institute by Jonathan Robbins Director in Residence: The Films of Tony Buba at Anthology Film Archives by Justin Stewart Synthesizing Cinema: Tangerine Dream at BAMcinématek by Margaret Barton-Fumo Intervention: Werner Herzog at the Whitney by Violet Lucca Festival Dispatch New York Asian Film Festival by R. Emmet Sweeney Cannes 2012 Diary: On Reygadas & Carax by Scott Foundas Festivals: Migrating Forms by R. Emmet Sweeney Cannes Report: Larry Gross on the Standouts by Larry Gross Cannes Review: Michael Haneke’s Amour by Robert Koehler Cannes Review: Matteo Garrone’s Reality by Robert Koehler Cannes 2012 Diary: Histoires d’amour by Scott Foundas Cannes Market Watch: Approved for Adoption by Robert Koehler Cannes Market Watch: The Most Fun You Can Have Dying by Robert Koehler Cannes Market Watch: Stoichkov by Robert Koehler Cannes Market Watch: El Puesto by Robert Koehler Cannes Roundtable II: On Carax, Resnais, Kiarostami, Lee Daniels, and more by Film Comment Cannes Market Watch: Life Just Is by Robert Koehler Cannes 2012 Diary: Invasion of the Body by Scott Foundas Cannes Roundtable: Amy Taubin, Gavin Smith, Todd McCarthy, Scott Foundas by Film Comment Cannes Market Watch: Bergman & Magnani: The War of the Volcanoes by Robert Koehler Cannes Market Watch: A Monkey on My Shoulder by Robert Koehler Cannes Market Watch: The Clan by Robert Koehler Festivals: Amy Taubin on Tribeca by Amy Taubin Koehler on Bafici: Antennae Up, with Unexpected Signals by Robert Koehler Home and Back Again: The 19th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) by Ina Diane Archer Foundas on Filmby Scott Foundas Snow White and the Huntsman & Hemingway & Gellhorn by Scott Foundas The Avengers and Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Scott Foundas Unproduced and Unfinished Filmsby Film Comment An Ongoing Film Comment project by Film Comment Announcementby Film Comment Welcome to the New Film Comment Online by Film Comment Online Exclusiveby Film Comment Unproduced and Unfinished Films: An Ongoing Film Comment Project by Film Comment