September-October 2006 | Film Comment

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September-October 2006

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First Look: The Queen

An online-only, extended appreciation of Stephen Frears's The Queen

by Graham Fuller

First Look: The Queen

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Encore: Insiang

Philippine filmmaking legend Lino Brocka’s infernal 1976 melodrama Insiang

by José B. Capino

Encore: Insiang

Department

Editor’s Letter by Gavin Smith

Opening Shots by Film Comment

Critics’ Choice by Film Comment

Closing Shots by photographers Irene Meltzer Richard and Godlis

Column

Jolly Corner: The Great Flamarion by Guy Maddin

Flashback: El Topo by Alex Cox

Distributor Wanted: Shoot the Messenger by Chris Chang

Channels: The Hill by Nicolas Rapold

Sneak Preview: Gary Indiana by Chris Chang

Sound: Michael Haneke by Philip Brophy

Vision: Douglas Gordon by Chris Chang

Art of the Real: Iraq War Docs by Paul Arthur

Feature

Marie Antoinette by Nathan Lee

Kirsten Dunst by Melissa Anderson

The Film Canon by Paul Schrader

Old Joy by Dave Kehr

Warhol by Way of Cronenberg by Amy Taubin

When Critics Attack by Caveh Zahedi

Red Modernism: Miklós Jancsó by J. Hoberman

Screenings

Shortbus by Nathan Lee

Mutual Appreciation by Amy Taubin

Infamous by Kristin M. Jones

The Last King of Scotland by Graham Fuller

Home Movies

Editor’s Pick by Gavin Smith

Wanda by Chuck Stephens

Three Crowns of the Sailor by Mark McElhatten

Broken Trail by Richard Combs

Jigoku by Tom Mes

The Unit by Gavin Smith

Readings

What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? by David Thompson

In Brief by Adam Nayman, Brian Frye and Colin Fleming