September-October 2005 | Film Comment

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September-October 2005

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Shochiku Studios

Home to Ozu’s delicately daft “home dramas” and hearth to the Oshima-ignited hellfire of the Japanese “New Wave,” the perpetually modern and perennially conservative Shochiku Studios celebrates the 110th anniversary of its extraordinary career

by Chuck Stephens

Shochiku Studios

Caught: Mikio Naruse

Chris Fujiwara examines the ouvre of the Japanese master

by Chris Fujiwara

Caught: Mikio Naruse

good night and good luck

An Online Exclusive with Grant Heslov

Harlan Jacobson talks to Grant Heslov, screenwriter of Good Night, And Good Luck

by Harlan Jacobson

Interview: An Online Exclusive with Grant Heslov

Channels: Pripyat

Stillness marks the proceedings of Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s documentary on a village near the Chernobyl power plant

by Nicolas Rapold

Channels: Pripyat

Department

Editor’s Letter: Un-American Activities by Gavin Smith

Opening Shots by Film Comment

Critics’ Choice by Film Comment

Letters by Film Comment

Closing Shots by photographers Irene Meltzer Richard and David Godlis

Column

Distributor Wanted: Cecil Taylor: All the Notes by Gary Giddins

Jolly Corner: Léolo by Guy Maddin

Guilty Pleasures by Rob Zombie

Olaf’s World: João César Monteiro by Olaf Möller

Sound & Vision: Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Model Works by Chris Chang

Sound & Vision: To Walk Next to One’s Shoelaces in an Empty Fridge by Nathan Lee

Journals: Israel by Uri Klein

Movie of the Moment: A History of Violence by Amy Taubin

Feature

Good Night, And Good Luck. by Phillip Lopate

The J-Word: Grant Heslov by Harlan Jacobson

Shochiku Studio Sidebar by Chuck Stephens

Owen Land by Paul Arthur

Forever Amber by David Mamet

Mr. & Mrs. Smith by Stanley Cavell

Winter Soldier by Rob Nelson

Festival Coverage

Los Angeles Film Festival: Go Westwood, Young Man by Mark Olsen

Screenings

The Squid and the Whale by Melissa Anderson

Paradise Now by Joumane Chahine

Dear Wendy by Wesley Morris

Proof by Michael Agger

Readings

In Brief by Olaf Möller, Eliza Subotowicz and Brian Frye

Agee by Robert Horton

Home Movies

Devil in the Flesh by Gavin Smith

Over the Edge by Chuck Stephens

Shirley Temple Collection by Guy Maddin

The Color of Lies by Richard Combs

He Who Hits First, Hits Twice by Paul Arthur

Little Britain by Gavin Smith