Read issue Subscribe to access more than 300 print issues of Film Comment in our comprehensively indexed, searchable archive. November-December 2012 Department Editor’s Letter by Gavin Smith The Trivial Top 20 by Film Comment Critics’ Choice by Film Comment Closing Shots by Film Comment Column Hot Property: Miss Lovely by Nicolas Rapold 10,000 Ways to Die: Bidder 70 by Alex Cox Site Specifics: lafuriaumana.it by Jesse P. Finnegan Brief Encounters: Cristian Mungiu by Harlan Jacobson Encore: A Borrowed Life by Andrew Chan Further Research: Hugo Fregonese by Dave Kehr Sound & Vision: Perfect Timing and Idle Hands by Chris Chang and Violet Lucca Feature Denzel Washington: Never Let You Down by Gavin Smith Hitchcock Olympiad by Richard Combs Escaping the Overlook: Room 237 by B. Kite Tabu by Haden Guest Book-Length Film Studies by Jonathan Rosenbaum Red Dawn by J. Hoberman Interview Bruce Goldstein by Kent Jones Festival Coverage Venice Film Festival: Lost Horizons and Higher Callings by Olaf Möller Toronto Film Festival: Brand Maintenance by Gavin Smith Toronto Film Festival: Making Connections by Nicole Armour Locarno Film Festival: Guided Tours by Chris Darke Screenings Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, U.S., 2012) by Emma Myers The Central Park Five (Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, & David McMahon, U.S., 2012) by Chris Chang Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer and Andy & Lana Wachowski, U.S., 2012) by Violet Lucca Short Takes: Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, U.K., 2012) by Graham Fuller Short Takes: Chasing Ice (Jeff Orlowski, U.S., 2012) by Chris Chang Short Takes: The Comedy (Rick Alverson, U.S., 2012) by Nicolas Rapold Short Takes: The Impossible (Juan Antonio Bayona, Spain, 2012) by Chris Chang Short Takes: Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard, France/Belgium, 2012) by Laura Kern Short Takes: This Must Be the Place (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy/France/Ireland, 2011) by Nicolas Rapold Home Movies Sokurov: Early Masterworks by Chris Chang Études sur Paris by Patrick Friel Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles by David Filipi Twilight’s Last Gleaming by Chuck Stephens When Horror Came to Shochiku by Travis Crawford Born to Be Bad by Chris Chang Sunday Bloody Sunday by Emma Myers Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Graham Corrigan Mundane History by Meredith Slifkin The Sorcerers by Sarah Mankoff Readings Do the Movies Have a Future? by David Denby by Peter Tonguette Olivier Assayas and A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord by Nico Baumbach Mamoulian: Life on Stage and Screen by Justin Stewart
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Short Takes: This Must Be the Place (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy/France/Ireland, 2011) by Nicolas Rapold
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