Journals: London; Paris; Los Angeles.Notes On Film Noir (by Paul Schrader).Mr. Film Noir Stays At The Table: an interview with Robert Aldrich (by Alain Silver).Cine Cubano (by Pierre Sauvage).KLUTE, an analysis (by Robin Wood).Dziga Vertov, an Introduction (by David Bordwell); A Vertov Portfolio; The Vertov Papers.George Cukor (an interview with Fr. Gene Phillips).Film Favourites: SEVEN WOMEN; DEAD HEAT ON A MERRY-GO-ROUND.Critics: Otis Ferguson (by Gary Carey).Book Reviews: THE CITIZEN KANE BOOK (reviewed by Jonathan Rosenbaum).

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L.A. Journal (by Stephen Farber); Murnau: NOSFERATU and SUNRISE (review articles by Robin Wood); Plots and Patterns: FAMILY PLOT (review article by Roger Greenspun); Two Or Three Things I Know About GASLIGHT (review article by Andrew Sarris); The Power And The Gory: TAXI DRIVER (review article by Patricia Patterson and Manny Farber); Independents: Programmers' Notes (article by Amos Vogel); In Memoriam (obituaries for Luchino Visconti and Howard Hughes, by James McCourt and Andrew Sarris); The Industry: Getting Snuffed In Boston (article by Peter Birge and Janet Maslin); Television: Yesterday, Tonight and Tomorrow (article by Brooks Riley); Meep! Meep! (article by Richard Thompson; Diary Of A Mad Cel-Washer (article by Chuck Jones); Two Faces Of Bergman (articles by Charles Michener and Samson Raphaelson); Tough Guy; an interview with James M. Cain (by Peter Brunette and Gerald Peary); Books: Four books about Jean Renoir reviewed by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Journals: London-New York (by Jonathan Rosenbaum) and Australia (by Jan Dawson); Justice Is Blind - And Dirty-Minded (article by Brendan Gill); Billy Wilder - Closet Romanticist (article by Andrew Sarris); Interview: John Milius (by Richard Thompson); Three Blue Birds (article by Tag Gallagher); Pat O'Neill In All Directions (article by Mitch Tuchman); The Industry: Martyr Complexes (article by Stuart Byron); Television: CBS Goes Public - With A Vengeance (article by Robert Sklar); Bucking The System...Or Buckling Under (articles by Maurice Tourneur and King Vidor, with an introduction by Richard Koszarski); Film Noir, Life Noir (article by Peter Hankoff); A Reader's Digest Of The Avant-Garde (article by Amos Vogel); Interview: Arthur Penn (by Stuart Byron and Terry Curtis Fox); THE MISSOURI BREAKS (review article by Charles Michener); Film Apres Noir (article by Larry Gross); Britannia Waives The Rules (article by Raymond Durgnat); Books: Film reference books reviewd by Richard T. Jameson; reviews of "Movie-Mad America" and "America In The Movies" by Gerald Weales.

Festival Reports: Cannes (by Mary Corliss); Berlin (by Richard Roud); Brasilia (by Brooks Riley); New York (by Charles Michener and Tony Rayns); The Pakula Parallax (article by Richard T. Jameson); Mr. Pakula Goes To Washington: an interview with Alan J. Pakula about ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (by Richard Thompson); Bank Shots (article on film financing by Stuart Byron, with an interview with two film financiers by Patrick McGilligan); DUELLE: Notes On A First Viewing (review article by Jonathan Rosenbaum); SERAIL: Eduardo de Gregorio interviewed by Jan Dawson; Independents: Reader's Digest Of Avant-Garde Film History, Part Two (by Amos Vogel); Television: Suds And Sympathy (article by Roger Ebert); The Industry: Encyclotedium (article by Stuart Byron); Kid Stuff: Francois Truffaut interview about L'ARGENT DE POCHE (by Joseph McBride and Todd McCarthy); A Family In A Ford (article about THE GRAPES OF WRATH by Janey Place); A Voyage In India (Satyajit Ray interviewed by John Hughes); Bernrad Herrmann: Music Of The Fears (article by John Broeck); Book Reviews: including a review of "The New Wave" by James Monaco.

Journals: L.A. (Mitch Tuchman); Venice (Stephen Harvey); Telluride (Elliott Stein); Louis Feuillade: Maker Of Melodrama (article by Richard Roud); Francis Ford: Brother Feeney (article by Tag Gallagher); The Nostalgia Express (interviews with Vincente and Liza Minnelli and Ingrid Bergman by Gideon Bachmann); One Kind Of Dream: A MATTER OF TIME (review article by George Morris); Old Wine, New Battles: Structuralism or Humanism? (article by Robin Wood); Song For Woody (article about the making of BOUND FOR GLORY by Joseph McBride); Independents: A Reader's Digest Of The Avant-Garde, Part Three (article by Amos Vogel); Cops And Robbers: Themes And Variations (article by Tom Ryan); An Agent: Jeff Berg (interview by Richard Thompson); New York Film Festival (reports by James McCourt and Elliott Stein); Middle Chabrol (article by Peter Harcourt); Stephanie Rothman: A Feminist On Poverty Row (article by Terry Curtis Fox); My Favourite Films/Texts/Things (a poll conducted by Jonathan Rosenbaum); Book Reviews: three John Ford books and "The Oxford Companion To Film".

Journals: Bangkok (by Gerald Weales); R. Altman and Co., including interviews with Robert Benton and Alan Rudolph (by Robert Levine); Carrie And Sally And Leatherface Among The Film Buffs (article by Roger Greenspun); Kong Is Nice Guy: interview with Dino De Laurentiis (by Stuart Byron); Helter Shelter (article by Mitch Tuchman); The Flavor Of Ketchup: Interview With Samuel Fuller (by Richard Thompson); In The Realm Of The Censors (article by James Bouras); The Film Critick: Five Academic Species (article by Michael Pressler, with illustrations by the author); Independents: A Reader's Digest Of The Avant-Garde, Part 4 (by Amos Vogel); The Industry: Rocky And His Friends (article by Stuart Byron); Television: The Disco Hustle (article by Richard Koszarski); Hollywood Under Water: Interview With Elia Kazan (by Charles Silver and Mary Corliss); THE LAST TYCOON (review article by Brendan Gill); Ideology, Genre, Auteur (article by Robin Wood); Planetary Fantasies: Interview With Barbet Schroeder (by Elliott Stein); Book Reviews: "The Rise And Fall Of British Documentary" by Elizabeth Sussex, reviewed by Thorold Dickinson.

Journals: Chicago (by Roger Ebert); Teheran (by Brooks Riley and Wendy Keys). Film Editing Special Section: The Work Of The Film Editor (by Win Sharples Jr., Elias Savada, Ruth Lissak and Jay Wentz); Filmographies for Albert Akst, Dede Allen, George J. Amy, Hal Ashby, Bert Bates, Anne Buchens, Reginald Beck, Folmar Blangsted, John Maurice Bloom, Margaret Booth, Claudine Bouche, David Bretherton, Donn Cambern, Jim Clark, Anne V. Coates, Henri Colpi, Anne-Marie Cotret, Denise de Casabianca, Cecile Decugis, Adrienne Fazan, Rudi Fehr, Verna Fields, Hugh S. Fowler, Charles Frend, Antony Gibbs, Stuart Gilmore, Jerry Greenberg, Danford B. Greene, Bernard Gribble, Agnes Guillemot, Jack Harris, Donae Harrison, Anthony Harvey, Gene Havlick, Seth Holt, William Hornbeck, Peter Hunt, Martine Kalfon, Ralph Kemplen, Frederic L. Knudtson, Harold F. Kress, Viola Lawrence, Raymond Lamy, Henri Lanoe, David Lean, Carl Lerner, Renee Lichtig, Russell Lloyd, Warren Low, Daniel Mandell, Owen Marks, Fergus McDonell, Barbara McLean, Reginald Mills, Conrad Nervig, Christian Nyby, Sam O'Steen, Robert Parrish, Tom Priestley, William Reynolds, Ralph Rosenblum, Dorothy Spencer, Frederic Steinkamp, Peter Tanner, Peter Taylor, George Tomasini, John Victor Smith, Ernest Walter, Ferris Webster, Merrill C. White, Elmo Williams, Ralph E. Winters, Robert Wise, Robert Wolfe, William Ziegler; My Best: 24 editors pick their favourite moments or films; Editors and Directors: The Top Ten (a poll of most admired film-makers); "As The Editor, You're The Audience" (Interview with Robert Wise); Film Editors' Forum.Independents: Hints To The Wise (article by Amos Vogel); Television: Family Plot (review article on ROOTS, by Stuart Byron); In Memoriam: Henri Langlois (eight tributes); Second Annual Grosses Gloss (article by Stuart Byron); PROVIDENCE - A Chronic Mystery (review article by James McCourt); Hollywood Hara-Kiri (article by William Paul); Novels Into Movies (article by Brendan Gill); Interview with Robert Aldrich (by Stuart Byron); Atlantic City: Godard's MADE IN U.S.A. (review article by John Hughes).

Journals: Moving from Europe to America (by Jonathan Rosenbaum); L.A. (by Mitch Tuchman); The Hollywood Gangster 1927-33 (article by Andrew Sarris); Hooverville West: The Hollywood G-Man, 1934-45 (article by Carlos Clarens); Realism and Revolution (article by Robin Wood); John M. Stahl: The Man Who Understood Women (article by George Morris); Edited For Television, Part One: Scanning (article by Michael Kerbel); Independents: Subversive Mysteries (article by Amos Vogel); A Film About A Very Funny Man (review article on ANNIE HALL by George W.S. Trow); German Weasels (article by Jan Dawson); Termites: An Interview With Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson (by Richard Thompson); One Day Of ONE LIFE (article by James McCourt); The Great British Phantasmagoria (article by Raymond Durgnat).

Festival Journals: Venice (by Harlan Kennedy); Ottawa (by Leonard Maltin); Toronto (by Mary Corliss); The Great Script Tease (article by Chuck Ross); Wild Bill (article on William Richert, with interview, both by Richard T. Jameson); Polestar (article on Jerzy Skolimowski, with interview, both by Dan Yakir); Now Read The Movie (article by Lawrence O'Toole); Ray Bradbury: Shooting Haiku In A Barrel (interview with Mitch Tuchman); Making Book On TV (article by Stephen Farber); Goldie Gets Serious (article on Goldie Hawn with interview, both by David Thomson); Welcome To The Last Chance, Lampoon (article by Myron Meisel); The 20th New York Film Festival (reports by Elliott Stein, James McCourt and Harlan Jacobson); Book review: "Lulu In Hollywood" by Louise Brooks; Television: The Great Sneak Previews Hunt (by Marcia Froelke Coburn and Richard Corliss); Independents: Smashing Myths About The Information Industry (by Amos Vogel); Green Fire (obituary for Grace Kelly by Richard Corliss).

Marcia Pally on representations of women in film; John Lithgow's journals; David Thomson on Sam Shepard; Midsection: Sight & Sound [new photographic and sound technologies] (Marc Mancini); adventures in film school; Michael Mann interviewed by Harlan Kennedy

Harlan Jacobson on blockbuster movies (Indiana Jones, Gremlins, Ghostbusters); Richard Edland and SPFX; Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, by Mary Corliss, Leone interviewed by Elain Lomenzo; Harlan Kennedy on spy movies; Midsection: Lost Hollywood (Mark Mancini tells the sad, stirring story of a city and the industry that created it); Making Under the Volcano
Harlan Jacobson on blockbuster movies (Indiana Jones, Gremlins, Ghostbusters); Richard Edland and SPFX; Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, by Mary Corliss, Leone interviewed by Elain Lomenzo; Harlan Kennedy on spy movies; Midsection: Lost Hollywood (Mark Mancini tells the sad, stirring story of a city and the industry that created it); Making Under the Volcano

David Lean career review and interview; Richard Schickel on the culture of celebrity; Midsection: Franηois Truffaut (Richard T. Jameson on FT's screen space and sexuality, tributes by Steven Spielberg and Todd McCarthy, an FT interview by Dan Yakir); 1984 Movie Revue; David Thomson on Amadeus

Jack Nicholson interviewed by Beverly Walker; Dan Yakir on Desperately Seeking Susan; Fellini interviewed; Midsection: Latin America (David Thomson and Leonardo Garcia Tsao on Mexico, progressive Mexican films, Cuban film, the Miami Film Festival, the Cuban revolution); excerpt from David Thomson's Suspects

Woody Allen; Marshall Brickman, Allen's collaborator, interviewed by Dan Yakir; movie ratings; Midsection: Humphrey Bogart (career overview by Richard Schickel); Latin American cinema; Hungarian cinema; Elizabeth Taylor tribute

Peter Weir interview; small town America in film (Blue Velvet, Peggy Sue Got Married, True Stories); Sigourney Weaver; Nazi propaganda film; Dennis Hopper; Pee Wee Herman; Venice, Midsection: Festival Roundelay (Venice, Gdansk, Toronto, New York)

"Fantasy States": Schickel on Ronald Reagan; Indian movie stars who've moved into politics; prostitutes in film; Midsection: Glasnost [New Soviet Cinema] (overview, Tarkovsky, Soviet-American productions, Farewell, Alexander Batchan); Mike Medavoy interview; De Palma's guilty pleasures

Cover: John Huston by Wieland Schulz-Kiel; Anjelica Huston by Beverly Walker
Features:
Full Metal Jacket by Richard Lacayo
Olive North by Richard Corliss
NYFF at 25 by Richard Roud
The NYFF we'd like to see by Matt Groening
Rob Reiner interviewed by Harlan Jacobson
Mikhalkov's Dark Eyes and Konchalovsky's Shy People by Karen Jaehne
Dancers by Marcia Pally
Yves Montand interviewed by Harlan Jacobson
Scenes from Sammy and Rosie Get Laid by Hanif Kureishi
Diane Kurys interviewed by Marcia Pally
Journals: A Star Wars gathering by Marc Mancini
Moscow Film Festival by Pat Aufderheide
TV: The FCC controversy by Lois P. Sheinfeld
Orbits: Fred Astaire by Harold Meyerson

Cover: The Last Emperor and an interview with Bernardo Bertolucci by Tony Rayns
Features:
Cry Freedom by Armond White
Hollywood Blacklist by Pat McGilligan
Sam Ornitz and Jimmy Cagney by John Bright
Writing for Disney by Joan Scott
On the Director's Guild Strike by Alex Gibney and Anne Thompson
Mary Lambert's Siesta by Gavin Smith
Festivals: New York by Stephen Harvey, Elliott Stein, and Harlan Jacobson
Venice and Edinburgh by Harlan Kennedy
Toronto by David Chute and Pat Aufderheide
Journals: Godard's TV ads by H.A. Rodchenko
NY Gay and Lesbian Experimental Film Festival by Jan Stuart
Telluride by Michae Sragow
TV: Trying Times by Tom Carson

Cover: Alan Rudoplh's The Moderns by Karen Jaehne
Features:
Broadcast News by Richard Corliss
Remaking And God Created Woman by Marc Mancini
Movies into Plays by Robert Sklar
Robert Florey on Charlie Chaplin by Brian Taves
Midsection - Documentarists into Fiction Filmmakers: Robert M. Young's Dominick and Eugene by Marlaine Glicksman
Singing the Blues in Red and an interview with Ken Loach by Gavin Smith
A World Apart and an interview with Chris Menges by Armond White
Journals: Havana Film Festival by Pat Aufderheide
The Sixth Native American Film Festival by Armond White
Chuck Solomon by Austin Lamont
TV: TV Dramas by Tom Carson
Oscar Predix
13th Annual 'Grosses Gloss' by Anne Thompson

Cover: Who Framed Roger Rabbit by David Chute; Richard Williams by Charles Solomon
Features:
Pascali's Island and an interview with James Dearden by Harlan Kennedy
Paul Schrader interviewed by Karen Jaehne
Dean Stockwell interviewed by Pat McGilligan
Norman Stone on British Cinema and the state of things by Graham Fuller
Israeli Cinema by Dan Yakir
Midsection - '68/'88: Sindey Lumet interviewed by Gavin Smith
Naomi Foner interviewed by Anne Thompson
Sixties British Cinema by Paul Kerr
Sixties German Cinema by Andreas Kilb
Sixties French Cinema by Philippe J. Maarek
Sixties Film Theory by Peter Wollen
Sixties American Cinema by Marcia Pally
The Perfect Sixties Woman: Sylvia Miles by Marlaine Glicksman
Reflections on the Sixties by Peter Boyle, John Cassavetes, Constantin Costa-Gavras, Bruce Dern, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Bob Rafaelson, Andrew Sarris, and Haskell Wexler
Journals: Collective for Living Cinema by Armond White
David Lean at Cannes by Mary Corliss
First New York International Festival of the Arts Film Symposium by Gavin Smith
Books: Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego and The "Twilight Zone" Case by Stephen Farber and Marc Green, reviewed by Gregg Kilday
TV: China Beach and The Wonder Years by Tom Carson

Cover: The restoration of Griffith's Intolerance by Miriam Hensen
Features:
Norman Jewison's In Country by Jay Scott
Chabrol's Story of Women by Marcia Pally
Laurence Olivier by Richard Schickel
Steel Magnolias by Karen Jaehne
A Dry White Season and an interview with Euzhan Palcy by Marlaine Glicksman
Advertisement and Product Placement for Teenagers by Lois P. Sheinfeld
Australian Cinema by Harlan Kennedy
Midsection - Hollywood Cinematographers: The Pantheon of Cinematographers by Todd McCarthy
Vittorio Storaro interviewed by Carol Rutter
Sven Nykvist interviewed by Armond White
The Aesthetics of Cinematography by Armond White
Journals: Jacques Annaud's The Bear by Anne Thompson
The Big Picture by Gavin Smith
Shocker and Wes Craven by Marc Mancini
Books: Robert Altman: Jumping Off the Cliff by Patrick McGilligan, reviewed by Andrew Sarris

Cover: Michael Moore's Roger & Me by Harlan Jacobson
Features:
Film Industry in the Eighties by Gregg Kilday
Memorable Films of the Eighties by Greil Marcus
Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors by Marcia Pally
Atom Egoyan's Speaking Parts by Amy Taubin
Prince's Batdance and Partyman by Armond White
Midsection - Character Actors: What is a 'Character Actor' by David Thomson
A Character Actor's Career by Beverly Walker
Jeff Corey, acting mentor interviewed by Pat McGilligan
Brad Dourif, acting mentor interviewed by Marlaine Glicksman
William Hickey, acting mentor interviewed by Gavin Smith
Acting Teachers by Len Klady
Celebrating the 'Celebactor' by Jack Barth
Journals: Kenneth Branagh's Henry V by Graham Fuller
Chatting with Cary Grant by Everett Mattlin
Festivals: New York by Lisa Katzman; Toronto by David Chute; Venice by Harlan Kennedy

Cover: Frears's The Grifters by Maitland McDonagh
Features:
Barry Levinson interviewed by Gavin Smith
Fritz Lang by Peter Hogue
Murnau and Flaherty's Tabu by Scott Eyman
Theo Angelopoulos by Michael Wilmington
Angelopoulos' Landscape in the Mist by Kathleen Murphy
The Long Take in Angelopoulos' Voyage to Cythera by Raymond Durgnat
Arthur Terry by Frank Thompson
Chinatown and Robert Towne by Mark Horowitz
Wild at Heart by Kathleen Murphy
Memphis Belle by Donald Lyons
Festivals: Venice by Harlan Kennedy; Toronto by David Chute
Books: Emotion Pictures: Reflections on the Cinema by Wim Wenders, reviewed by Peter Hogue; Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison and How to Go to the Movies by Quentin Crisp, reviewed by Dale Thomajan

Cover: Marlon Brando by Richard Schickel, William A. Wellman Jr.
Features:
Why Billy Wilder Belongs in the Pantheon by Andrew Sarris
Graham Greene and Film by David Thomson
Milos Forman and Why Havel? By Jesse Bryant Wilder
Mortal Thoughts and Thelma & Louise by Kathleen Murphy
Delusion and Road Movies by Donald Lyons
Danny Aiello interviewed by Gavin Smith
Eisenstein by Nestor Almedros
Fascism & Hollywood by Anthony Slide
Eroupa by Harlan Kennedy
Hanna Schygulla by Jim Emerson
Jacques Demy by Peter Hogue
Sayles's City of Hope by Robert Horton
Life With Video: The Vampire's Ghost by Richard T. Jameson; Mail-order Video by Elliot Forbes, Eurohorror by Maitland McDonagh; B Westerns by Peter Hogue

Cover: Martha Coolidge and Rambing Rose by Robert Horton
Features:
Claude Chabrol and Madame Bovary by Donald Chase
Uncle Moses and the Yiddish sound film by J. Hoberman
Films as Spritual Life and Diary of Country Priest by Philip Lopate
The 'Unreliable Narrator' in Citizen Kane by Peter Hogue
Against Dances With Wolves by Wayne Michael Sarf
Marcel Carne interviewed by Brian Stonehill
Borzage's Lucky Star by Scott Eyman
The Wages of Fear by Dale Thomajan
On the Set of Twin Peaks: Firewalk With Me by Greg Olson
Festivals: Venice by Harlan Kennedy; Toronto by Kathleen Murphy, David Chute; New York by Robert Horton, Donald Lyons, Nicholas Nicastro
Life With Video: Time Machines by Frank Thompson; Protected to Death by Gregory Luce

Cover: The Player by Richard T. Jameson; Robert Altman interviewed by Gavin Smith
Features:
James Agee by Stephan Taltry
Merchant-Ivory by Donald Lyons
Satyajit Ray by Richard Schickel
Lee Tracy by Donald Phelps
Bombshell by William Johnson
Hammer Films by Andrew Mangravite and Robert C. Cumbow
Steven Spielberg (Part One) by Henry Sheehan
Alain Tanner by Armond White
Native American Media by Elizabeth Weatherford
Deaths of Movie Stars by Kate Buford
Music from Movies by David Shawn Klein
Festivals: Berlin by Harlan Kennedy and Amos Vogel
Guilty Pleasures: Jim Jarmusch
Books: George Cukor: A Double Life by Patrick McGilligan. Reviewed by Donald Lyons.

Cover: Alien by Kathleen Murphy
Features:
The Big Red One by Donald Lyons
Swoon by Armond White
The Hours and Times by Thomas Beller
Christopher Munch by Robert Horton
Robert Mitchum interviewed by Harlan Kennedy
Jane Russell interviewed by Gerald Peary
Chen Kaige by Godfrey Cheshire
The Aviation Movie by Peter Hogue
Westerns in the Nineties by Anne Thompson
Christopher Walken interviewed by Gavin Smith
Steven Spielberg (Part Two) by Henry Sheelan
Phillip Noyce interviewed by Jim Emerson
Margie by Dale Thomajan
Festivals: Cannes by Mary Corliss and Harlan Kennedy

eatures:
La Sentinelle by Michael Atkinson
Sentimentality by William Johnson
The Long Day Closesby Armond White
The Director's Cut by Greg Solman
John Sayles by Andrew Sarris
Martin & Osa Johnson by Robert Horton
David Lynch by Howard Hampton
Fire Walk With Me by Greg Olson
Vincent Ward by Michael Wilmington
William Powell by Dennis Drabelle
Akira Kurosawa by Alex Seltzer
Alan Clarke by David Thomson
The Politics of Denial by Vanessa Place
Festivals: Berlin by Harlan Kennedy
Oscar Redux

Best of 1993.<BR>

Oliver Stone &amp; Tommy Lee Jones interviews.<BR>

Orson Welles.<BR>

Alex Cox.<BR>

Polanski: Bitter Moon.

Robert Altman tribute.<BR>

Oscar predix.<BR>

Victor Nunez.<BR>

Schindler's List.<BR>

19th Annual 'Grosses Gloss.'<BR>

Walter Hill.<BR>

The Blue Angel.

Special section: Irish Cinema.<BR>

The making of The Wild Bunch.<BR>

Alexander Mackendrick.<BR>

Almodovar.<BR>

Leox Carax.

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Elvis in the Twilight Zone.<BR>
Bertrand Tavernier: John Ford remembered.<BR>
Quentin Tarantino.<BR>
David Thomson on Carol Reed.

John Dahl &amp; Neo-Noir.<BR>

Mitchell Leisen.<BR>

Richard Schickel on Fellini.<BR>

Gregg Araki.<BR>

The Brothers Quay.<BR>

David Thomson on Ken Burn's Baseball.

Who owns the movies?<BR>

Tim Burton Ed Wood Interview.<BR>

Dave Kehr on Kieslowski.<BR>

Venice/Cannes/New York.

Best of 1994.<BR>

Robert Benton.<BR>

Francesco Rosi.<BR>

Richard Linklater.<BR>

Takeshi Kitano.<BR>

Nelson Pereira Dos Santos.<BR>

Robert Zemeckis's Guilty Pleasures.

Powell &amp; Pressburger.<BR>

The movies begin.<BR>

Dave Kehr on Robert Zemeckis.<BR>

Glasnost Cinema.<BR>

Charley Chase.<BR>

20th Annual 'Crosses Gloss.'<BR>

Oscar Predix.<BR>

Barbet Schroeder interview.

Ingmar Bergman.<BR>

Salute To Shirley MacLaine.<BR>

Peter Jackson.<BR>

Lon Chaney.

Mystery Science Theater 3000.<BR>

David Thomson on Money Shots.<BR>

Kathleen Murphy on Cyberscreens.<BR>

Geoffrey O'Brien on Fritz Lang.<BR>

Andre Techine.<BR>

Todd Haynes.

Kathryn Bigelow.<BR>

Zhang yimou.<BR>

God Is My Witness.<BR>

Brakhage.<BR>

Cozarinsky.<BR>

Planet Of The Apes.

Mexican cinema.<BR>

George Axelrod.<BR>

Festivals: Venice, Toronto, NY.<BR>

Lars von Trier.<BR>

Miklos Rozsa.

Cover: Banlieue Films by Berenice Reynaud
Features:
J*U*I*C*E by Jonathan Baumbach
Michael Mann by Richard Combs
Jean Arthur by Dennis Drabelle
Jean-Luc Godard by Armond White; interviewed by Gavin Smith
George Loane Tucker by Frank Thompson
Michele Soavi by Maitland McDonagh
CD-ROM et al. by Kathleen Murphy
Warner Bros. Pre-Code by Dale Thomajan
Two Seconds by Donald Phelps
Michael Curtiz by Donald Lyons
21st 'Grosses Gloss' by Anne Thompson
Festivals: Sundance by Gavin Smith, Rachel Rosen
Oscar Predix

Oscar Redux: reporting on who won, and which Oscar Predix participants got the most right <br>
An affectionate, insightful new documentary portrait of Sam Fuller, by Robert Horton<br>
CLINT EASTWOOD, honoree at the FSLC's 1996 Gala: <br>
-- ''Clint on the Back Nine,'' by Richard Schickel <br>
-- Eastwood as romantic hero, by Kathleen Murphy <br>
-- The Bridges of Madison County, by Richard Combs <br>
Music video plagiarism, by Maria Demopoulos <br>
Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, by Jacob Levich <br>
Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan (Rouge; Actress; Red Rose, White Rose), by Michael Atkinson <br>
Chinese silents, by Matt Severson <br>
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.: ''The Choreography of Hope,'' by John Tibbetts <br>
John Sayles: the writer-director of Return of the Secaucus 7, Passion Fish, et al. talks about his new film Lone Star; interviewed by Gavin Smith <br>
Chris Smith's ultra-low-budget debut, American Job, by Jim Supanick <br>
From Mexico: Nobody Will Speak of Us When We Are Dead, by Chris Chang <br>
Berlin Film Festival report, by Harlan Kennedy <br>
Life signs from the French cinema: Purple Noon and Nelly et M. Arnaud, by Donald Lyons <br>
Also, Japanese animator Oshii Mamoru, by David Chute - and more.

Cannes '96, articles by Mary Corliss and Harlan Kennedy Los Angeles Noir by Paul Arthur Abbas Kiarostami interviewed by Phillip Lopate and Godfrey Cheshire on Kiarostami Mission: Impossible by Howard Hampton Cinema Sex Magick, the films of Donald Cammell by Chris Chang Marcel Ophuls interviewed by Kurt Jacobsen Trainspotting by Harlan Kennedy

Also, Psycho Revisited, Anthony Mann, Michael Haneke, Bertolucci's Guilty Pleasures and more.

Independence Day and the summer blockbuster syndrome, by Kent Jones

READ IT HERE!

In praise of Dan Ireland's The Whole Wide World, by Kathleen Murphy

READ IT HERE!

Eric Rohmer's Rendezvous in Paris et al., by Armond White

Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang, by Chuck Stephens

WWII: British cinema's stiff upper lip, by Harlan Kennedy

Maurice Pialat achieves his masterpiece, Le Garηu, by Dave Kehr

Hong Kong movie goddess Brigitte Lin, by Howard Hampton

READ IT HERE!

John Carpenter's Guilty Pleasures

Artists making (film) art: Basquiat, Arena Brains, et al., by Chris Chang

Nick Gomez: the director of illtown, New Jersey Drive, and Laws of Gravity interviewed by Gavin Smith

Remembering Jacques Demy's Young Girls of Rochefort, by William Johnson

The Window, a film noir classic, by Paul Arthur

Stanley Kubrick talks! (in a British TV documentary), by Richard Combs

Book review: two biographies of Orson Welles (from David Thomson and Simon Callow), assessed by Donald Lyons; and more.

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>NYFF</FONT> as seen by Robert Horton and Phillip Lopate, plus Donald Lyons on <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Vertigo</FONT> and Paul Arthur on (the absence of) avant-garde visions.<BR>

Kathleen Murphy on Jane Campion's <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Portrait of a Lady</FONT>.<BR>

Elia Kazan's <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Wild River</FONT>, by Donald Chase.<BR>

Cave painter: <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Cornel Wilde</FONT>, by Michael Atkinson.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Venice and Toronto</FONT> film festivals.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>James Benning</FONT>: the filmmaker as landscape, by Bιrιnice Reynaud.<BR>

The Cinema of <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Jean-Pierre Melville</FONT> by Peter Hogue.<BR>

Don Siegel's <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>The Killers</FONT> by Howard Hampton.<BR>

Hollywood Egypt: <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Youssef Chahine</FONT>, by Dave Kehr.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Jules Dassin</FONT>: An interview with the director of Naked City, Rififi, et al., by Patrick McGilligan.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>James Benning</FONT>: the filmmaker as landscape, by Bιrιnice Reynaud.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Marcel Ophuls</FONT> interviewed by Kurt Jacobsen.<BR>

Also, Chris Chang on Engelchen, Dale Thomajan on show-going and more.

1996 in Review: Moments Out of Time, Ten Best, et al.

Molly Haskell's Guilty Pleasures

James Woods interviewed by Gavin Smith

Raul Ruiz by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Armond White on Charles Burnett

The Kremlin Letter by Peter Richards

Frames by Kathleen Murphy

Kent Jones on Spike Lee

Kevin Brownlow and Bruce Goldstein on William K. Everson

Donald Lyons on Lost Highway

Also, William Johnson on John Garfield, Molly Haskell on Ransom and more.

David Cronenberg interviewed by Gavin Smith The legacy of Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, explored by Jacob Levich Film Comment's Annual Oscar Predix Wim Wenders takes his 5-hour cut of Until the End of the World on the road, by Robert Horton Richard T. Jameson on Hard Eight The 22nd Annual 'Grosses Gloss' --surveying the 1996 box office, by Leonard Klady The art and theory of Saul Bass, by Jim Supanick William Johnson on Five Million Years to Earth An affectionate salute to the cinematic poetry of Kieslowski's White, by Annette Insdorf Rock 'n' Roll movies, by Howard Hampton That thing they don't: musicals (e.g., Evita) that fail to sing, by Armond White Underground filmmaker Ken Jacobs, by Paul Arthur Robert Altman's Kansas City, by Richard Combs Rescued: the earliest American feature film extant, by Beverly Walker Also, Reports from the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, by Gavin Smith and Rachel Rosen and more.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center's gala tribute to Sean Connery by Kathleen Murphy (see excerpt at this website)... Star Wars pro and con: Gen X (Andrew Lewis Conn) and an only slightly elder statesman (Robert Horton) draw lines in the sand of pop culture... ''This Is Still Cinerama'': the curved screen rules again in Dayton, Ohio (by David Joachim)... ''Coming Attractions'': Richard Corliss savors exploitation-film trailers from decades gone by... Kent Jones on the cinema of Philippe Garrell... Film Comment May-June selection for most promising directorial debut: John Nossiter's Sunday (by Richard T. Jameson)... A latterday masterpiece from Michelangelo Antonioni: Peter Hogue on Beyond the Clouds... American independent Christopher Mόnch , as seen by Donald Lyons (read it at this website)... ''The Last Gangster'': a rollicking/raunchy/reflective interview with veteran character actor Marc Lawrence (The Asphalt Jungle, Key Largo, This Gun for Hire), by Lee Server... Reinventing movies: Lumiθre and Co., by Michael Atkinson... ''Harry Langdon: the fourth genius?'' -- an affectionate but not quite adulatory look at the silent-era comedian, by Frank Thompson (see article at this website)...and more.

Cannes Film Festival - the fest on its 50th appraised by 25-year veteran Mary Corliss; plus a report on the powerful British contingent at Cannes by Harlan Kennedy The Lost World - Spielberg's latest expedition traced and trounced by Chuck Stephens Tsui Hark, ''the Spielberg of Hong Kong Cinema'' - a career survey by Howard Hampton, who also considers Tsui's invaluable collaborator Ching Siu-tung; plus Berenice Reynaud on the state of Hong Kong filmmaking on the eve of the handover to China The Searchers - a fresh look at an American classic, by David Thomson The Red musical - J. Hoberman on Communist tunefests of the Thirties and beyond Jazz on a Summer's Day - the definitive concert movie returns, appreciated by Dale Thomajan READ IT HERE Film Comment poll : a roster of superb foreign films lacking a U.S. distributor--READ THE COMPLETE POLL HERE Land of the Pharaohs - Richard Combs argues that Howard Hawks's odd-film-out is one of the director's most important achievements The grown-up world of Sidney Lumet - Phillip Lopate considers Night Falls on Manhattan READ IT HERE ''Straight to Film'': Gavin Smith on the evolving relationship between film and video Will (can?) the real Luc Besson stand up? - Chris Chang on The Fifth Element et al. READ IT HERE Master Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf - a career assessment by Godfrey Cheshire READ ABOUT THE DIRECTOR'S BRILLIANT NEW FILM HERE Frames - Kathleen Murphy's latest report on lively websites, new CD-ROM releases, etc. Books - Donald Lyons reviews Brownlow's David Lean and new books on Max Ophuls and Gone With the Wind Neil Labute's In the Company of Men - July-August pick for most promising directorial debut, by Ray Privett

David Ansen on Delta, This Issue's Selection for Most Promising Directorial Debut Boogie Nights by Chuck Stephens Dave Kehr's Reflections on Godard's Contempt Katherine Dieckmann on Emir Kusturica Kathleen Murphy's Appreciation

of Director Lee Tamahori (The Edge) Kent Jones on Director Frank Borzage--

READ IT HERE Donald Chase on the career of Gloria Grahame--

READ IT HERE Fred Zinnemann, by Robert Horton Chris Chang on Errol Morris Alvin Lu on director Chen Kaige Gummo, reviewed by Paul Arthur--

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Critics' Choice</FONT>: a ''quick-and-dirty'' rating of the latest releases.<BR>

Chris Darke on <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Will It Snow for Christmas?</FONT> This issue's selection for Most Promising Directorial Debut.<BR>

Thoughts on <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Kiss Me Deadly</FONT> by David Thomson.<BR>

Donald Lyons on <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>L. A. Confidential</FONT>.<BR>

Paul Schrader interviews <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Aleksandr Sokurov</FONT>.<BR>

Andrew Sarris's appreciation of <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>My Best Friend's Wedding</FONT>.<BR>

Cover story: Gavin Smith's interview with <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Robert Duvall</FONT>.<BR>

J. Hoberman on the filmmaker <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Jack Smith</FONT>.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>The New York Film Festival</FONT>, by Robert Horton and Phillip Lopate.<BR>

Reviews of the <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Venice and Toronto Film Festivals</FONT>, and more.

CRITICS' CHOICE -- In our exciting new feature, first-rate film critics rate the current cinema crop (including notable restorations and reissues)--. Fragments * Jerusalem -- J. Hoberman of The Village Voice talks about a remarkable new documentary --READ IT HERE! Under the Skin -- Kathleen Murphy introduces Carine Adler, FC's Most Promising New Director for Jan-Feb--. The Avant-Garde in '97 -- a survey by Paul Arthur--. EDGAR KENNEDY -- the classic comedian (master of ''the slow burn'') and underrated character actor gets his due from Donald Phelps in an eloquent essay--. MARTIN SCORSESE interviewed by Gavin Smith on the occasion of Kundun -- SAMPLE IT HERE! ATOM EGOYAN -- Kent Jones takes the temperature of Canada's most pristine filmmaker, writer-director of the current The Sweet Hereafter--. Pordenone -- Italy's inimitable, invaluable annual festival entirely devoted to silent films is (re)visited by historian and super-fan Richard Koszarski--. MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM -- an emerging modern master, hailed by Michael Atkinson --READ IT HERE! BEST OF 1997 -- Ten Bests from the editors and regular contributors, and of course ''Moments out of Time''--. Edmond T. Greville -- an enigmatic, sometimes brilliant, and unjustly overlooked figure from the French and the English cinema, reappraised by the great director, critic, and historian Bertrand Tavernier; plus an excerpt from Greville's memoirs, about the glories and headaches of directing Erich von Stroheim--. TITANIC movies -- from 1912 to James Cameron's 1997 world-beater, a comprehensive look by Titanic maven Frank Thompson --READ IT HERE! The Innocents -- Wings of the Dove? Washington Square? Per Donald Chase, the most spellbinding Henry James adaptation remains Jack Clayton's 1961 version of The Turn of the Screw--. Tabloid Documentaries -- Paul Arthur considers Heidi Fleiss, Paradise Lost, Aileen Wournos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, et al--.

OSCAR PREDIX: eleven critics/editors/industry reporters take their best shots at scoping out the victors in ten key Academy categories-- CRITICS' CHOICE: ratings-at-a-glance of the current movie scene, from ten first-rate film critics-- Sundance '98: Gavin Smith on the best (and worst) of show, Rachel Rosen on the key documentaries, plus Kent Jones on Paul Schrader's superb Affliction-- WOODY ALLEN -- a sharp but appreciative evaluation by David Thomson-- Titanic vs. Jackie Brown -- apres le deluge (the Christmas releases, that is), Kent Jones takes stock of what really matters -- or should--. Kate Winslet: Post-Pre-Raphaelite by Nicholas Nicastro-- Fireworks aka Hana-Bi -- Dave Kehr looks at Takeshi Kitano's latest, and sees a masterpiece-- Amistad -- Oscar turned his back. Armond White doesn't-- ELMORE LEONARD -- America's most durable writer of high-class low-down character thrillers talks about nigh onto half a century of writing, directly or indirectly, for the screen; an interview by Patrick McGilligan-- MARY PICKFORD -- she not only invented movie stardom, she came close to inventing movie moguldom as well; an eloquent appreciation by Richard Corliss-- Guy Maddin -- the most independent of ''American independent'' filmmakers is a Canadian; by John Anderson-- 23RD ANNUAL 'GROSSES GLOSS' by Jeffrey Spaulding--. Why Denzel Washington (not Tom Cruise) Is the New Paul Newman by Leslie Simon-- Grishamovies: the hack jobs, the glorified hack jobs, and the furtively auteured -- movie adaptations of John Grisham novels, that is -- as seen by Mark Olsen-- and more...

Critics Choice -- make that Choice Critics, as ten top film commentators rate the current movie scene-- WOODY ALLEN, Take 2 -- Kent Jones writes David Thomson a friendly letter in response to his Mar/Apr article on The Woodman-- Shane Meadows -- Gavin Smith salutes our Most Promising Directorial Debut for May/June, on the occasion of TwentyFourSeven, starring Bob Hoskins-- BERLIN -- European Editor Harlan Kennedy checks out this year's Filmfestspiele -- READ IT HERE!-- Oscar Redux -- who won, who lost, who guessed the most right among our Oscar Predix crew----. Special Section: a tribute to MARTIN SCORSESE 25th Gala Honoree of the Film Society of Lincoln Center

Film Comment presents two new articles hailing Scorsese's career, as well as reprints of classic pieces from three decades of mostly amicable coexistence:

Michael Wilmington: ''The Wild Heart''

Andrew Lewis Conn: ''The Adolescents of Martin Scorsese''

Marjorie Rosen: excerpts from an interview regarding Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More (1974)

Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson on Taxi Driver (1976)

Martin Scorsese's Guilty Pleasures -- READ IT HERE

David Thomson on Raging Bull (1981)

Martin Scorsese on color preservation (1981)

Kathleen Murphy on GoodFellas (1990)

Gavin Smith: excerpts from three great interviews on the occasions of GoodFellas (1990), The Age of Innocence (1993), and Kundun (1998)--READ THEM HERE Digital Law -- Elliot Forbes reports on the legality, the history, and the likely future of appropriating celebrity images-- Alex van Warmerdam -- William Johnson scopes out a droll Dutch filmmaker-- Hong Kong books -- David Chute reviews two comprehensive and complementary new tomes on the world's highest-jumping cinema -- READ IT HERE! and more...

Critics Choice -- make that Choice Critics--ten top film commentators rate the current movie scene-- Frank Sinatra -- this issue's cover story; an appreciation by Robert Horton-- Mary Astor --Dennis Drabelle analyzes the star as actress and author-- CANNES -- European Editor Harlan Kennedy checks out this year's festival -- READ IT HERE! along with other Cannes pieces by Richard Pena and Gavin Smith-- GODZILLA -- why the new version doesn't live up to the Toho classics, by Gregory Solman--READ IT HERE! Alvin Lu's view of the career of director Wayne Wang-- John Sparks' reflection on Truffaut's forgotten masterpiece, DAY FOR NIGHT--READ ABOUT IT HERE! Theo Angelopoulos-- an interview by Gideon Bachmann-- Fathers and Sons in American Cinema---a survey by Donald Lyons-- Stan Schwartz on Ingmar Bergman's new television film, IN THE PRESENCE OF A CLOWN--READ ABOUT IT HERE! and Harlan Kennedy on Whatever Happened to Ingmar Bergman? Dale Thomajan on books-- Paul Arthur on Disaster Pix and more...

Saving Private Ryan -- this issue's cover story; written by Editor Richard T. Jameson-- Godard in the 90s: an interview, argument and scrapbook, by Jonathan Rosenbaum ---- Critics Choice ---ten top film commentators rate the current movie scene-- The Galway Film Fleadh -- Kathleen Murphy on this year's festival -- READ IT HERE!-- Les Vampires -- An appreciation of Louis Feuillade's series by Frank Thompson--READ IT HERE! Memory Tripping--Richard Schickel on the AFI 100 and other ephemera-- To Each His Own---On the Art of Mitchell Leisen,by Jack Shadoian-- Richard Corliss on Lolita--READ ABOUT IT HERE!-- Robert Castle and Stephen Donatelli on Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick's ulterior war--- and Elliot Stein on Come and See-- Quickies--Reviews of The Eel, Snake Eyes, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries and Love Is the Devil--READ ABOUT THEM HERE! Kent Jones on Reclaiming the 70s-- Chris Chang on Todd Solondz-- Gavin Smith on new video releases-- and more...

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Douglas Sirk</FONT>: This issue's cover story; written by Tag Gallagher.<BR>

Michael Atkinson on <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Film Enchante</FONT>.<BR>

George Nelson's tribute to <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Sheldon Gunsberg</FONT>, who helped popularize the film ''arthouse.'' <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Sadie Benning</FONT>: Gavin Smith interviews the independent videomaker.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Film Festivals</FONT>: Kathleen Murphy on this year's Toronto event; Murphy and Phillip Lopate on New York and Harlan Kennedy on Venice.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>The New Paranoia</FONT>: Jonathan Romney on the games pixels play.<BR>

Organic Machine: The world of Japanese animator <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Hayao Miyazaki</FONT>, by David Chute.<BR>

Ray Privett on <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Philippine Cinema</FONT>.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Roy Rodgers and Gene Autry</FONT>: An appreciation by Peter Hogue.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Critics' Choice</FONT>: Ten top film commentators rate the current movie scene.<BR>

Robert Horton on <FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Bertrand Tavernier</FONT>.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Reviews</FONT>: The Mighty, Central Station, Hurlyburly, A Simple Plan and Beloved.<BR>

Gavin Smith on new video releases.<BR>

Mark Harris on books and more...

Critics Choice -- Ten top reviewers rate 36 recent releases Coming Apart -- One man, one remarkable film. Writer-director Milton Moses Ginsberg talks about his own astonishing 1969 movie starring Rip Torn. The Thin Red Line -- The return of Terrence Malick, appraised by Gavin Smith. READ IT HERE Wes Anderson -- Mark Olsen celebrates the inimitable virtues of the writer-director of the sweet, eccentric, and very funny Rushmore. Akira Kurosawa -- The passing of a titan, and the enduring value of the many masterpieces -- Seven Samurai, Ran, Yojimbo, Rashomon, Dersu Uzala -- he left us. By Michael Wilmington and Peter Hogue. John Carpenter -- Kent Jones on the underrated filmmaker he rightly deems an ''American Movie Classic.'' 1998 and All That -- Ten Best lists by Film Comment editors and contributors, plus ''Moments Out of Time'' by Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy. The Avant Garde in '98 -- A summary of the year's highlights by Paul Arthur. Jacques Becker -- Philip Kemp showcases a French master too little known in America. Alexei Guerman -- J. Hoberman talks with the director of what for many was the revelation of the latest New York Film Festival, Khroustaliov, My Car! Richard Lester and Petulia -- As enigmatic and unforgettable in 1998 as it was in 1968, Lester's distillation of America and especially San Francisco at the moment ''flower power'' was losing its bloom is considered by Richard Combs. The Triumphant Children of Small Change -- By Giovanna De Luca, winner of the latest Grand Marnier Fellowship winner for Film Criticism. Un-Happiness -- An eloquent minority report on the season's most-talked-about American indie film, by Andrew Lewis Conn. READ IT HERE Quickies -- Sharp, up-to-the-minute reviews: Stephen Frears' The Hi-Lo Country by John Anderson; Claude Chabrol's The Swindle by Phillip Lopate; A Civil Action by Kent Jones; Vietnam: Long Time Coming by Paul Arthur; Another Day in Paradise by Donald Chase; Stepmom by Dave Kehr. READ THEM HERE Vidi Vidi Vidi -- Gavin Smith on the new video releases.

CRITICS CHOICE -- Ten top commentators rate the current release scene, including a special ''Oscar Flashback'' survey of major contenders-- OSCAR PREDIX -- Leading critics, industry reporters, et al. scope out the winners for March 31, 1999-- BESIEGED -- Bernardo Bertolucci's best in years? Dave Kehr says so. READ IT HERE!!! JULIA SWEENEY -- Andrew Sarris salutes the complex comedienne -- and writer, and director -- and her sterling one-woman film God Said, ''Ha!'' READ IT HERE!!! IN DREAMS -- Neil Jordan has made a brilliant new horror film, lush, dark, and deeply disturbing -- not that most of the working film press seems to realize it. By Kathleen Murphy-- THE GAY NINETIES -- Christopher Kelly wishes the gay branch of the American independent cinema were a lot more exciting-- CUTTING NOTORIOUS -- Looking over The Master's shoulder as he fine-tuned one of his early American masterworks. By Leonard J. Leff-- THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE -- Lisa Katzman reassesses Jean Eustache's epochal study of failed revolutions in love and politics-- BEN-HUR -- Revisiting the pre-Titanic Oscar champ. By Peter Richards-- EDDIE ROMERO -- ''Our Man in Manila,'' the veteran Philippine filmmaker, sold his first script at age 16 on the eve of World War II, directed his first film in 1947, lived through sundry political upheavals and Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, and is still going strong. A lively interview by Lee Server-- 24TH ANNUAL 'GROSSES GLOSS' -- Box-office winners &amp; sinners of 1998, and the Hollywood marketplace as viewed by Jeffrey Spaulding (let no one call him schnorrer)-- WARREN SONBERT -- The Underground montage master. An appreciation by Paul Arthur-- THE FULL MONARCHY -- Nicholas Nicastro takes on all these Elizabeths, not to mention Mrs. Brown, and even diagnoses the madness of King George. READ IT HERE!!! SUNDANCE '99 -- Reports from Park City by Gavin Smith and Rachel Rosen-- ROTTERDAM -- Dave Kehr visits a most distinctive rijstaffel of a festival-- SILVER MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD -- Love and death and the American screen: a memoir by Frank Holland-- QUICKIES -- Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune, Benoit Jacquot's The School of Flesh, and three other new films reviewed. READ IT HERE!!! VIDI VIDI VIDI -- Gavin Smith's video picks for March-April--

CRITICS CHOICE: Ten savvy commentators rate current releases and notable reissues.<BR>

Go -- Mark Olsen savors the vigorous new movie from Doug (Swingers) Liman.<BR>

MIKE NICHOLS -- the director of The Graduate, Silkwood, and Primary Colors is the 26th annual Gala tributee of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.<BR>

ROBERT BRESSON -- Part One of a film-by-film survey of one of the cinema's outstanding careers: John Powers on Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Frederic Bonnaud on Diary of a Country Priest, Peter Hogue on A Man Escaped, Raymond Durgnat on Pickpocket, Robert Horton on The Trial of Joan of Arc, Phillip Lopate on Mouchette.<BR>

New British Cinema -- Philip Kemp studies ''New Maps of Albion''.<BR>

Tehran Film Festival -- NYFF Director Richard Pena on a busman's holiday.<BR>

Berlin Film Festival -- Harlan Kennedy celebrates visionary new fest sites and a mature coming-to-terms with the past.<BR>

Mon Oncle Antoine -- Donald Chase revisits one of the arthouse hits of the Seventies.<BR>

Life The Movie -- a book review by Kent Williams.<BR>

Quickies -- five new films reviewed.<BR>

Vidi Vidi Vidi -- Gavin Smith salutes Monte Hellman's Two Lane Blacktop and other notable video releases.

CRITICS CHOICE - 10 top film commentators rate the current film scene.<BR>

CANNES '99 - Our 20some-year Cannes-watcher Mary Corliss, European Editor Harlan Kennedy, and New York Film Festival Director Richard Pena offer their takes on everybody's premier film orgy.<BR>

ALBERT BROOKS - To many, our greatest comic writer-director-star, interviewed on the occasion of his new movie The Muse by Gavin Smith.<BR>

OLIVER REED - The bad boy of British cinema skipped out on his last bar bill, but left a distinctive screen legacy. Celebrated by Tim Lucas.<BR>

BRESSON II - FILM COMMENT continues its film-by-film survey of the Cinema of Robert Bresson: seven articles by Olivier Assayas (The Devil Probably), Manohla Dargis (Une Femme douce), Kent Jones (Four Nights of a Dreamer), Adrian Martin (L'Argent), Olaf Moeller (Les Anges du peche), Kathleen Murphy (Lancelot du Lac), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Les Affaires publiques).<BR>

NOIR HAPPENS - Paul Arthur on Fred Zinnemann's Act of Violence.<BR>

A FATHER'S HANDS - Memoir by Robert ''Pete'' Peterson.<BR>

HIROKAZU KORE-EDA - William Johnson on a very promising new Japanese director.<BR>

TRUFFAUT - Phillip Lopate reviews a comprehensive new biography.<BR>

NINETIES MOVIES - Satire by Dale Thomajan.<BR>

QUICKIES - Current films in review.<BR>

VIDI VIDI VIDI - Gavin Smith's new-on-video column, featuring Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue and Gus Van Sant's Psycho.

CRITICS CHOICE - Ten of the best and brightest rate the current movie scene.<BR>

RUN LOLA RUN - Crissa-Jean Chappell monitors the fleetest film out of Germany in many a Jahre.<BR>

BEING JOHN MALKOVICH - Chris Chang hails the feature-directing debut of music video maestro (and Three Kings costar) Spike Jonze.<BR>

ON APPROVAL - Clive Brook's daffy, surreal, divinely silly and utterly one-of-a-kind comedy classic, appreciated anew by Philip Kemp.<BR>

CATHERINE BREILLAT - On the occasion of Breillat's bold and controversial new film Romance, Kathleen Murphy surveys the director's two-decade career.<BR>

EYES WIDE SHUT - Final masterpiece or posthumous muddle? Two sympathetic views, by Amy Taubin and Richard T. Jameson.<BR>

THE THIRD MAN and TOUCH OF EVIL - Both dazzling film noir masterworks, both restored and rereleased not long ago, these two ''Orson Welles classics'' have a surprising amount in common. Harlan Kennedy teases it out.<BR>

STEVEN SODERBERGH - He's come a long and surprisingly variegated way from sex, lies &amp; videotape, and Dave Kehr has it down cold. Featuring Soderbergh's evocative new Terence Stamp showcase, The Limey.<BR>

HOU HSIAO-HSIEN - Taiwan's master filmmaker remains unknown in the United States apart from the festival circuit. Kent Jones makes an eloquent case for his three latest films.<BR>

THE HALF-LIFERS - Jim Supanick reports on a screw-loose video saga.<BR>

SUGAR TOWN - Mark Olsen on the new Alison Anders-Kurt Voss film about the L.A. rock scene.<BR>

DAVID FINCHER - A probing Gavin Smith interview with the director of Seven and the stunning new Fight Club, with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.<BR>

BOOKS - Dale Thomajan reviews new collections by Richard Schickel and Peter Bogdanovich.<BR>

QUICKIES - five new films reviewed.<BR>

VIDI VIDI VIDI - Gavin Smith on the latest video releases.

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Critics choice</FONT>: Ten of the best and brightest rate the current movie scene.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Riding with Ang Lee</FONT>: David Thomson on Lee's new Ride With The Devil.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Reconstructing greed</FONT>: How long, and in what color?<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Kids return</FONT>: Howard Hampton on recent films that explore the strange minds of children.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Ann Southern</FONT>: Jeanine Basiner and Mike Kaplan on the lady who was Maisie.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Festivals</FONT>: Harlan Kennedy on Venice...Kathleen Murphy on Toronto... Philip Lopate and Robert Horton on New York.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>The Vagaries of Verities</FONT>: This year's winner of the Grand Marnier fellowship prize for journalism, Melissa Anderson contemplates Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Snooche Boochies</FONT>: The Gospel According to Kevin Smith: Robert Horton on the director of Dogma, Clerks, Chasing Amy and Mallrats.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Encountering Leopoldo</FONT>: George Wead on actor Leopoldo Trieste.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Victor Mature</FONT>: An appreciation by David Thomson.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Quickies</FONT>: Five new films reviewed.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Vidi vidi vidi</FONT>: Gavin Smith on the latest video releases.

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Critics Choice</FONT>: Ten top film commentators rate the current movie scene, from masterpieces to bombs.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Distributor Wanted</FONT>: A new Film Comment feature spotlighting worthy movies that haven't been acquired for U.S. theatrical distribution yet. In this issue: Robert Horton on trans, Harlan Kennedy on Ratcatcher, and Mark Olsen on Claire Dolan.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Jim Carrey</FONT>: Dave Kehr finds the surrealistic comic's Man on the Moon performance as Andy Kaufman &quot;Oscarworthy,&quot; and analyzes this along with his previous roles. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Werner Herzog</FONT>: The peripatetic wildman of international cinema, from the arthouse grandeur of Aguirre, the Wrath of God to the Zen documentaries (Fata Morgana, La Soufriere) to the portrait-in-complicity of Klaus Kinski in My Best Fiend - an appreciation by Michael Atkinson. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Best of '99</FONT>: Moments out of Time, Ten Best Movies, New Faces et al. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>The Avant-Garde in 1999</FONT>: Kristin M. Jones surveys the alternative universe. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Jane Campion</FONT>: Kathleen Murphy talks about various orders of rapture with the great director, on the occasion of her new film with Kate Winslet, Holy Smoke. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Magnolia</FONT>: Kent Jones eyeballs Paul Thomas Anderson's latest, all-stops-out epic of Valley life. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Oliver Twist</FONT>: Half a century ago David Lean made, just maybe, his best movie, and brought scandal and controvery down on his head. How it happened, and why, examined by Al McKee. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Kevin Bacon</FONT>: ''It's a smile!'' The star of Footloose, Diner, River Wild, Murder in the First, et al. becomes the first Gala honoree of Young Friends Of Film.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>&quot;The Players: Film Comment's 90s poll&quot;</FONT>: 114 critics, filmmakers, archivists, programmers, authors, editors, and other committed film professionals choose The Film of the Decade, The Person of the Decade, and much more.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Clara Bow</FONT>: The Twenties' sauciest star, saluted by Peter Hogue. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Cornell Woolrich and Black Angel</FONT>: Donald Phelps writes inimitably of the pulp fiction maestro whose penny-dreadful tales supplied the basis for such classics as Rear Window, Phantom Lady, Mississippi Mermaid, and this neglected but memorable 1946 film noir gem. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>InterZone</FONT>: Another new column, on the overlapping of cinema and Internet. In this installment Jim Emerson guides you to notable auteur websites. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Quickies</FONT>: David J. Sterritt on The End of the Affair, Chuck Stephens on Ghost Dog, J. Hoberman on RKO 281 and Dave Kehr on The Green Mile. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Vidi Vidi Vidi</FONT>: Gavin Smith and Nicole Armour scope out what's new on VHS and DVD.

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Silvia Prieto</FONT>: A deliciously pixilated comedy from Argentina. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>The Decalogue</FONT>: Masterpieces are never out of date, though sometimes they take far too long to reach us. Krzysztof Kieslowski's dauntingly ambitious, dazzlingly well-achieved 1988 series inspired by the Ten Commandments gets a U.S. video release at last. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Manny Farber</FONT>: He used to argue movies with James Agee, can still go toe to toe with Pauline Kael, and has influenced every American film critic with a pulse in the past half-century. His landmark collection Negative Space was reissued last year in an expanded edition. And when he made a rare trip to Gotham recently to accept an award from the New York Film Critics Circle, the guy he most wanted to talk with was our own Kent Jones.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Al Pacino</FONT>: Sidney Lumet, who directed him to two of his eight Oscar nominations in Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon, recalls that 'if the day's work demanded a lunatic, he was a lunatic all day long.' For its 27th annual Gala, the Film Society of Lincoln Center honors Michael Corleone and Richard III, Lowell Bergman and Ricky Roma, Carlito Brigante and Tony Montana, Lion and Sonny and Lefty Ruggiero, and by all means Al Pacino. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>John Ford and black Americans</FONT>: Judge Priest, The Sun Shines Bright, Sergeant Rutledge: John Ford held America's feet to the fire in matters of race consciousness. Plus: the DGA vs. D.W.G. (Griffith, that is). <BR>

'<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Grosses Gloss</FONT>': The inside story on the '99 box office.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Sundance</FONT>: The altitude is high, the air thinner than a flack's rhetoric, but there were solid discoveries to be made at this year's premier U.S. indie festival.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Fearless</FONT>: Remember Peter Weir's great 1993 movie with Jeff Bridges as the survivor of an air crash? You should.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Monte Hellman</FONT> has been the stuff of cinematic legend since 1966 when, under the aegis of schlockmeister-general Roger Corman, he and Jack Nicholson collaborated on a pair of utterly unprecedented absurdist Westerns, The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind, completing both in a matter of days and forever changing the genre, not to mention the artistic parameters of no-budget, on-location filmmaking. Alas, legends don't necessarily show up even as a blip on the Hollywood radar, so such subsequent, enigmatic, often brilliant, always inimitable films as Two Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, China 9/Liberty 37, and Iguana have emerged sporadically, with limited-to-nonexistent theatrical release. Here's what some of them are like.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Updated Oscar predix</FONT>: Kevin Spacey or Denzel? Brandon Teena or Teena Brandon? American Beauty on an enchanted wind, or Mike Leigh turning everything Topsy-Turvy? Our fearless forecasters scope out what will (not necessarily should) bring home the gold come March 26.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Ian Hart</FONT>: The End of the Affair boasts an unimprovable cast, yet even in that exalted company many consider Hart, in the supporting role of the ineffably tender and haplessly diligent private detective, to be the standout. A remarkable, still-young career, submitted for your approval.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Reviews</FONT>: American Psycho, The Wind Will Carry Us, The Virgin Suicides, The Idiots, Orphans. <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Vidi Vidi Vidi</FONT>: Perfect Blue anime and the latest from Master P.

Beau travail.<BR>

Burt Lancaster.<BR>

Alain Resnais.<BR>

Michael Almereyda.<BR>

reviews of new films.

the Farrelly Brothers.<BR>

Abbas Kiarostami.<BR>

Videomakers Chris Petit, Miranda July and Anne McGuire.<BR>

The MTV Video Awards.<BR>

Cannes coverage.<BR>

Time Regained, directed by Raul Ruiz.

interview with Lars von Trier.<BR>

Dogma 95.<BR>

Get Carter.<BR>

Takeshi Kitano's Brother.<BR>

Edward Yang.<BR>

interview with Cameron Crowe.<BR>

reviews of new films.

the Coen Brothers' O Brother Where Art Thou?<BR>

Nagisa Oshima's Gohatto.<BR>

The Soviet New Wave of the 1960s.<BR>

movie writers.<BR>

Washington versus Hollywood.<BR>

Shadow of the Vampire.<BR>

Christopher Munch's Sleepy Time Gal.<BR>

Elisabeth Subrin.<BR>

festivals in Venice, Toronto and New York.<BR>

reviews of new films.

Interview with Gillian Anderson on the occasion of the release of The House of Mirth<BR>

The 2000 Readers' Poll.<BR>

The year's 20 best films.<BR>

Interview with Director Steven Soderbergh.

Jane Fonda<BR>

The Film Society's 2001 Gala Honoree<BR>

Oscar Predix<BR>

Ermanno Olmi.<BR>

Robert Beavers.<BR>

Sundance and Rotterdam Festivals.<BR>

Digital Video vs. Film.<BR>

Grosses Gloss.<BR>

Letters.<BR>

Reviews of New Films.

Moulin Rouge.<BR>

John Turturro's Guilty Pleasures.<BR>

Interview with Richard Widmark.<BR>

Apocalypse Now.<BR>

Time and Tide.<BR>

Ghost World.<BR>

Eureka.<BR>

Bootleg Video.<BR>

Very Annie Mary.<BR>

Festivals.<BR>

Reviews and new Video and DVD.

A.I.<BR>

Michael Bay.<BR>

Kon Ichikawa.

Francois Ozon.<BR>

Videomakers Eric Saks and Donigan Cumming.<BR>

Recent Shakespeare films.<BR>

Hollywood and porn.<BR>

Mexico City Journal.<BR>

Coverage of Cannes.<BR>

Domestic Violence.<BR>

Nightshift.

Mulholland Drive.<BR>

Va savoir.<BR>

Waking Life.<BR>

Cahiers du Cinema at 50.<BR>

Bela Tarr.<BR>

Leonardo Favio.<BR>

Kiarostami's A.B.C.<BR>

Africa and more.

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Ventura Pons</FONT>: When democracy returned to Spain, cultural life received a shot in the arm. One of the results was the deeply personal and challenging work of this Catalunyan auteur. by Gerard Dapena.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Amelie</FONT>: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Gallic blockbuster, the heartwarming tale of a simple girl who turns everyone she meets into a better person, has crossed the ocean aboard the SS Miramax. Did French audiences collectively swallow a feel-good pill without reading the label? Our Parisian correspondent takes time for a closer reading. by Frederic Bonnaud.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Festivals</FONT>: Vancouver, Toronto, Venice &amp; New York. Phillip Lopate on the NYFF and Nicole Armour on Views from the Avant-Garde.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Zero De Conduite</FONT>: This year's winner of the annual Grand Marnier film essay contest takes a fresh look at legendary French filmmaker Jean Vigo's 1933 classic. by Mariana Johnson.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>The Royal Tenenbaums</FONT>: With the help of Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, and Anjelica Huston, not to mention his usual partner in crime Owen Wilson, Wes Anderson has fashioned an epic comedy of loss in a poetically reconstructed Manhattan, a film that's both outrageously funny and deeply moving. We get the scoop, plus an interview. by Kent Jones and Gavin Smith.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Film studies vs. new media</FONT>: Film scholars, always sweating over their academic credentials, face a new threat: incorporation into an ever-expanding, amorphous blob called Media Studies. What's a cinephile to do? by Alissa Quart.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Pauline Kael</FONT>: For someone who was so small, Pauline Kael cast a giant shadow over the national cinematic landscape, and the one thing her followers and her detractors might agree on is her extraordinary talent. Two writers, both personal friends, confront the loss of this prolific, mercurial, greatly missed figure. by Paul Schrader and Howard Hampton.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Sound &amp;Vision</FONT>: Jean-Luc Godard's In Praise of Love &amp; Miguel Calderon, the bad-boy artist whose work features in The Royal Tenenbaums.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Laurent Cantet</FONT>: His previous film, Human Resources, depicted a working-class world in which loyalty is put to the test. With his latest, Time Out, Cantet dramatizes the same conflict through the odd personal life of one very confused human being. by Amy Taubin <BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Discovery</FONT>: Dog Days director Ulrich Seidl.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Distributor wanted</FONT>: Alan Rudolph's Investigating Sex.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>First look</FONT>: Previewing Robert Altman's Gosford Park.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Fiction</FONT>: ''Man Overboard'' by Bruce Wagner.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Reviews</FONT>: In the Bedroom; Little Otik; As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty; Everything Put Together.<BR>

<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Vidi Vidi Vidi</FONT>: New releases on DVD and video.

Francis Ford Coppola.<BR>

The Godfather.<BR>

Readers' Poll 2001.<BR>

Oscar Predix.

Bollywood 101 Midsection.<BR>

Tscherkassky vs. The Entity.<BR>

Chris Marker.<BR>

Jennifer Jason Leigh.<BR>

Insommia.

Special Star Wars issue featuring interview with George Lucas and more.<BR>

Cannes coverage.<BR>

Minority Report.

Todd Haynes and Far from Heaven.<BR>

NYFF at 40.<BR>

Jia Zhangke.<BR>

Yasuzu Masumura.<BR>

Horror Rediscovered.<BR>

Paul Greengrass.<BR>

Alexander Sokurov / Russian Ark.

Shabana Azmi.<BR>

The Inner Tour.

Bangkok Journal.

Interview on Brian De Palma, director of Femme Fatale.<BR>

Adaptation.<BR>

Michael Moore.<BR>

Fassbinder.<BR>

John Frankenheimer.<BR>

Parker Posey.<BR>

Thai and Spanish film.<BR>

The 40th New York Film Fesival.

The Jan/Feb 2003 issue of Film Comment features the editors' Best/Worst/Guilty Pleasures of 2002; articles on Gangs of New York; Delmer Daves; Andrzej Zulawski; Guy Maddin's Guilty Pleasures and more.

The Mar/Apr 2003 issue of Film Comment features a cover feature on Gala Honoree Susan Sarandon; articles on Aki Kaurismaki; Jia Zhangke; Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven; Sundance and more.

The May / June 2003 issue of Film Comment features a cover feature on Down with Love; a special section on the work of Chris Marker; articles on The Pianist; Friday Night; Central Asia and more.

The July/August 2003 issue of Film Comment features a cover feature on Hulk; part 2 of a special section on the work of Chris Marker; articles on Cannes, Tribeca, San Francisco and more.

The September/October 2003 issue of Film Comment features a cover feature on Mystic River; articles on Clint Eastwood; Gus Van Sant; Yasujiro Ozu; Chinese Cinema Now; demonlover and more.

The November/December 2003 issue of Film Comment features a cover feature on Kill Bill; coverage of The New York, Venice and Toronto Festivals; a midsection on Movie Music; Istanbul Journal; articles on Big Fish, Dogville and more.

The January / February 2004 issue of Film Comment features a cover feature on The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; 2003 Framed: Best Films of the Year; William Wellman; The Battle of Algiers; 'The Temenos'; Jean-Claude Brisseau; Timothy Carey and more.

The March/April 2004 issue of Film Comment features a cover feature on Gala Honoree Michael Caine; features on Sundance and Rotterdam; Movie of the Moment: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Joseph Losey, Marco Bellocchio, Nigerian Video and more.

The May/June 2004 issue of Film Comment features a cover feature on the restored The Big Red One; a Special Section on Maurice Pialat; articles on The Passion of the Christ; Before Sunset; Berlin and New Directors Festivals and more.

Featuring a cover story on Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11; features on Cannes; Stepford Wives; She Hate Me and more.

Featuring a cover story on I Heart Huckabees; features on Saraband; The Shaw Brothers; Peter Kubelka and more.

The Nov/Dec 2004 issue of Film Comment features Pedro Almod?var interviewed about his new film Bad Education; Howard Hampton on Date Movies; A special Korean film section; Festivals: Venice, Toronto,New York and more.

The Jan/Feb 2005 issue of Film Comment includes a cover feature on Martin Scorsese's The Aviator; interviews with Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby) and Jean-Luc Godard; 2004 Wrap-up including Movies That Mattered and Critic's Poll; Route 181 and more.

The Mar/Apr 2005 issue of Film Comment includes a cover feature on Gala Honoree Dustin Hoffman; features on Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachchan; Sundance; Johnny Staccato, John Cassavetes' hipster TV detective; 2004 Readers' Poll; Kung Fu Hustle and more.

The May/June issue of Film Comment includes features on Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen, Andrew Sarris, Michael Powell, Jean Rouch, Tropical Malady and more.

The July/August 2005 issue of Film Comment includes features on George Romero's Land of the Dead, Wong Kar Wai's 2046, Don Roos' Happy Endings, Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, Cannes Festival coverage and more.

The September/October 2005 issue of Film Comment includes feature articles on Good Night and Good Luck; Mr. and Mrs. Smith; Amy Taubin on Cronenberg's American Nightmare; David Mamet on Hollywood's gambling habit; Shochiku, the Japanese dream factory and more.

Michael Haneke's HIDDEN<br>
Martin Scorsese's film about Bob Dylan, NO DIRECTION HOME<br>
A look at the face and voice of PETER LORRE<br>
Lucile Hadzihalilovic's INNOCENCE<br>
Reviews of Brokeback Mountain, Breakfast on Pluto, Good Morning, Night, and Walk the Line

Woody Allen's MATCH POINT<br>
Michael Winterbottom's TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY<br>
Our annual Year-End Wrap-up, including 10-Best Lists, Movies That Mattered, Critics' Poll, and more<br>
Andy Warhol's BLUE MOVIE<br>
Reviews of Manderlay, Battle in Heaven, Bubble, Unknown White Male, and Munich

Jessica Lange<br>
Terrence Malick's THE NEW WORLD<br>
Tyler Perry<br>
Terry Zwigoff<br>
Elaine May<br>
Reviews of L'Enfant, Clean, Duck Season, 4, and The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Robert Altman's 'Prairie Home Companion'<br>
Paul Greengrass about United 93<br>
'Movie Magic'<br>
Directing Actors by Charles Grodin<br>
Reviews of The Road to Guantanamo, Lady Vengeance, The Proposition,, and Twelve and Holding

An interview with Richard Linklater<br>
Peter Whitehead<br>
Vivian Sobchack on horror flicks The Descent and Isolation<br>
Hou Hsiao-hsien<br>
15 pages of Cannes coverage<br>
Reviews of The Devil Wears Prada, Gabrielle, Clerks II, and Half Nelson

Paul Schrader's Film Canon, Distributor Wanted: Shoot the Messenger by Chris Chang, Jose B. Capino on Insiang, Kristin M. Jones's review of Infamous, and much more...

Includes Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration by Kent Jones, Distributor Wanted: Day Night Day Night by Chris Chang, Geoffrey O'Brien on The Aura, Guy Maddin's review of The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, and much more

Includes our Annual Year-End Round-Up: 10-Best Lists, Movies That Mattered, Terra Incognita (19 films to look out for), etc., Distributor Wanted: Summer Palace by Chris Chang, Melissa Anderson on Play It As It Lays, Nathan Lee's review of Black Snake Moan, and much more

Includes Manuel Y??ez Murillo on Carlos Saura, Distributor Wanted: Longing by Chris Chang, Sundance reports by Amy Taubin and Gavin Smith, Joumane Chahine's review of After the Wedding, and much more

ncludes Chris Darke on Jean-Daniel Pollet, Brynn White on Lee Marvin, Distributor Wanted: Woman on the Beach and Sound: Radio On by Chris Chang, Chuck Stephens's review of I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, and much more

Includes Matt Groening's Guilty Pleasures, Stuart Klawans on Sicko, Chris Darke on Kes, Distributor Wanted: After This Our Exile by Chris Chang, Klaus Kinski by Maitland McDonagh, Robert Horton's review of Dans Paris, and much more

Includes Geoffrey O'Brien on No Country for Old Men, Amy Taubin on the mumblecore movement, Distributor Wanted: Useless, by Chris Chang, a review of Paul Schrader's The Walker by Rob Nelson, and much more...

Includes Molly Haskell on Meryl Streep, Robin Wood on Munyurangabo, Distributor Wanted: Captain Ahab by Elisabeth Lequeret, Irina Leimbacher on Nicolas Klotz and his latest film, Heartbeat Detector, a review of Standard Operating Procedure by Michael Chaiken, and much more...

Includes Amy Taubin on Catherine Breillat's The Last Mistress, Thomas Elsaesser on The Edge of Heaven, Distributor Wanted: Est?mago by Laura Kern, Miriam Bale on Jennifer Jones, a review of Yella by Chris Darke, and much more

Includes Kent Jones on WALL-E, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Manoel de Oliveira, Distributor Wanted: In the City of Sylvia by J. Hoberman, Olaf M?ller on Li Ying, Site Specifics: davekehr.com, Cannes coverage by Kent Jones and Richard Pe?a, a review of Vicky Cristina Barcelona by Jonathan Romney, and much more...

Includes Amy Taubin on Steven Soderbergh's Che, Tony Rayns on Nagisa Oshima, Distributor Wanted: The Mugger by Chris Chang, Sam Di Iorio on Les Idoles, Site Specifics: Europa Film Treasures, Ariel Rotter's The Other, a review of Let the Right One In by Laura Kern, and much more

Includes an interview with A Christmas Tale director Arnaud Desplechin and star Catherine Deneuve (read the full dialogue here), Nathan Lee on Gus Van Sant's Milk, Rob Nelson on two Eighties docs Demon Lover Diary and Seventeen, Hot Property: Tulpan by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: Order of the Exile by Paul Fileri, a review of The Secret of the Grain by Elisabeth Lequeret, and much more...

Includes Our Annual Year-End Wrap-Up-Movies That Mattered, Terra Incognita, The Best Films of the Year and Readers' Poll, and more-Amy Taubin on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (read Taubin's online-only interview with David Fincher here), Jose Teodoro on Carlos Reygadas's Silent Light, Melissa Anderson revisits The Killing of Sister George, Hot Property: Unrelated by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: The Auteurs by Paul Fileri, a review of Revanche by Nicolas Rapold, and much more...

Includes Richard Schickel on Tom Hanks, an interview with 24 City director Jia Zhangke (read Andrew Chan's uncut version here), Nicolas Rapold on Satyajit Ray, Kent Jones on Robert Mulligan's The Stalking Moon, Geoffrey O'Brien revisits The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Hot Property: Louise-Michel, Site Specifics: indieWIRE & The [email protected] by Paul Fileri, a review of Summer Hours by Frederic Bonnaud, and much more

Includes Kent Jones on The Limits of Control, plus an interview with director Jim Jarmusch (read Gavin Smith's uncut version here), Amy Taubin on Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, Oliver Sacks's examination of Powell & Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death, Hot Property: Can Go Through Skin by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: National Film Board of Canada by Paul Fileri, a review of Departures by Tony Rayns, and much more

Includes Scott Foundas on Inglourious Basterds, Amy Taubin on Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman, (read Taubin's online-only interview with Martel here), Thom Andersen on the Dardenne Brothers' Lorna's Silence, Hot Property: Breathless and It Might Get Loud by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: Artforum by Paul Fileri, a review of Still Walking by Tony Rayns, Cannes coverage by Amy Taubin, Gavin Smith, and Richard Pe?a, and much more...

Includes Larry Gross on Lars von Trier's Antichrist, Amy Taubin on Alain Resnais's Wild Grass, Andrew Sarris on Public Enemies, Hot Property: Love Exposure by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: World Picture Journal by Paul Fileri, a review of The Burning Plain by Melissa Anderson, and much more...

Includes Kent Jones on Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, Andrew Sarris on Police, Adjective, Hot Property: Women Without Men by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: Film-Philosophy by Paul Fileri, a review of Up in the Air by Scott Foundas, Laura Kern reports from the 6th annual Reykjavik International Film Festival, and much more

Includes an interview with The Lovely Bones' Peter Jackson by Gavin Smith, Andrew Sarris on Vincere, Hot Property: Un lac by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: African Film Library by Paul Fileri, a review of A Prophet by Amy Taubin, Grahm Fuller on the Red Riding trilogy, Wrap-ups of the Films of the Year (including Terra Incognita and Movies That Mattered) and the Decade. Plus, a chance to vote in our annual Readers' Poll, which automatically enters participants in a drawing to win Criterion DVDs...

- Matt Damon And Paul Greengrass in Green Zone<br>
- Best of 2009 and Best of Decade - Reader Polls<br>
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PLUS: 2009 Box Office Rundown, Breillat's Bluebeard, Nicole Holofcener's self-sabotaging women... and more!

Includes Geoffrey O'Brien on Breathless, Chris Fujiwara on the newly reconstructed Metropolis, Andrew Sarris on Roman Polanski, Hot Property: Kinatay by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: Abecedarium: NYC by Jesse P. Finnegan, Avant-Garde Poll: The Best Experimental Films of the Decade, reviews of The Oath, World on a Wire, Trash Humpers, and I Am Love, plus short takes on Anton Chekhov's The Duel, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Best Worst Movie, Double Take, Mademoiselle Chambon, and Solitary Man

- Christopher Nolan<br>
- Tinto Brass: Italy's Maestro of Smut<br>
- Bloggers vs. Old School Critics - a truce<br>
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PLUS: Valhalla Rising's Viking Death Trip... and more!

Includes Scott Foundas on David Fincher's The Social Network, part two of Paul Brunick's article on the recent state of film criticism, Tom Mes on Masahiro Shinoda, Andrew Sarris on Sacha Guitry, Hot Property: Extraordinary Stories by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: jomasmekasfilms.com by Jesse P. Finnegan, reviews of Tamara Drewe, Nuremberg, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Last Train Home, plus short takes on Buried, Catfish, Heartbreaker, The Milk of Sorrow, Nowhere Boy, and Vision.

Terrence Davies<br>
Aleksei German<br>
PLUS: J. Hoberman... and more!

Beasts of the Southern Wild<br>
IDS Documentaries<br>
God Bless America<br>
Spaghetti Westerns<br>
Whit Stillman<br>
Werner Schroeter<br>
HBO Films