Contents International Cinema


The Skull Beneath the Skin: Patrice Chereau and Son Frere by Robin Wood

National Reconciliation and its Performative Limitations:

John Boorman's In My Country and Fanta Regina Nacro's Night of Truth

by Jeremy Maron

Toronto Workers' Art in Global Hollywood by John McCullough

Kiarostami's Life Lessons or how art flourishes where it would suffer, and struggles

where it should thrive by Dan Jones

Paul Newman IN MEMORIAM

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL 2008

6 Films by Richard Lippe

Un barrage contre le Pacifique/ The Sea Wall by Florence Jacobowitz

TIFF '08 and Liverpool by Susan Morrison

4 Films by Scott Forsyth

UNDERRATED FILMS

Nicholas Ray's King of Kings by Tony Williams

We the Undead: Nadja by George Porcari

Atrocities at the Door: Peter Brook's Tell Me Lies, Images of Terror and Brechtian Aesthetics by Scott MacKenzie

Deciphering Lust, Caution by Alice Shih

On the Road to Renewed Relevance: Jacques Tati's Trafic by Dan Lalande

The Art of Persuasion Or: Have you seen this man's Films Lately? by Daniel Stefik

Contents Documentary & Superheroes


Documentary


Evita in Wonderland
Pulqui and the Workshop of Underdevelopment
Tomas F. Crowder-Taraborrelli


Sounds like Canada
A Reexamination of the Development of
Canadian Cinema Verite
Michael Longfield


The War on Film
Reanimating the Post-9/11 Viewer in
The Prisoner, Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair
Brian Gibson


The Dialogical Documentary
Jennifer Fox on Finding a New Film Language in Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (2007)
Angelica Fenner


Secret Identities
The Superhero Simulacrum and the Nation Matt Yockey
Superheroes


Convergence Culture and the Caped Crusader
Batman and the Environment of New Media
Dru H. Jeffries


On the Obama-ization of Will Smith
Edward D. Bacal


Lost in Translation
On Frank Miller's The Spirit
Brian Wilson


"Tone down the Boobs Please"
Reading the Special Effect Body
in Superhero Movies
Sabine LeBel


Of Depth and Surfaces
Notes on Watchmen and Other (non)Reflections on Phenomenological Film Experience
Kevin Wynter

Contents Coming to terms with the Slumdog Phenomenon

Eli Roth's Hostel & Hostel II

Transsexualism as Cinematic Metaphor

PLUS: Second City, Guy Maddin... and more!