FEATURES AGNES VARDA By Chris Darke A narrative filmmaker moonlighting as a short-film essayist, or vice versa? THERE WILL BE BLOOD By Kent Jones P.T. Anderson hits the mother lode GEORGE A. ROMERO'S DIARY OF THE DEAD By Robin Wood Forty years on, the horror maestro gets back to basics TAXIDERMIA By Robert Horton György Pálfi's multigenerational gross-out saga of bodily (dys)functions EDWARD YANG By Olivier Assayas The late Taiwanese trailblazer who was always in synch with the times RICHARD FLEISCHER By Richard Combs The may have dismissed him, but every critic has a favorite Fleischer film FINAL CUT 2007 20 Best Films of the Year poll 10 Best Lists Movies That Mattered Terra Incognita: Films to Watch Out For Kent Jones on Zodiac DEPARTMENTS EDITOR'S LETTER OPENING SHOTS Distributor Wanted: The Man from London by Chris Chang, Guy Maddin's Jolly Corner: I Married a Witch, Flashback: Andrzej Zulawski's The Third Part of the Night by Alex Cox, Site Specifics: Paul Fileri on DVD Beaver and Masters of Cinema ART OF THE REAL DIY docs by Paul Arthur SOUND & VISION Delphine Seyrig by Joe Milutis & Jose Alvarez by Chris Chang BRIEF ENCOUNTER Francis Ford Coppola by Harlan Jacobson SCREENINGS Ex Drummer by Chris Norris, Woman on the Beach by David E. James, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Kristen M. Jones, Caramel by Amy Taubin, The Unforseen by Paul Fileri, Chicago 10 by Paul Arthur, and Chop Shop by Megan Ratner HOME MOVIES The Films of Pierre Zucca by Elisabeth Lequeret, The Naked Prey Margaret Barton-Fumo, The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard by Gavin Smith, 3:10 to Yuma by Richard Combs, Across the Universe by Laura Kern, Payday by Daniel Stuyck, Class Relations by Michael Chaiken, Walker by Jake Perlin, The Director's Series: Jean-Luc Godard by Paul Fileri, The River Kent Jones READINGS David Bordwell's Poetics of Cinema by Joe McElhaney, Kevin Johnson's The Dark Page: Books That Inspired American Film Noir (1940-1949) by Chris Chang, Alexander Horwath and Michael Omasta's The Case of Lena Smith by Guy Maddin, Susan Tegel's Nazi and the Cinema by J. Hoberman ONLINE EXCLUSIVES Festival: 2008 Turin Film Festival by Nicolas Rapold Review: Transformers by Patrick Hebron Eletrik Alchemy: Claire Denis Films Sonic Youth by Daniel Stuyck
FEATURES AGNES VARDA By Chris Darke A narrative filmmaker moonlighting as a short-film essayist, or vice versa? THERE WILL BE BLOOD By Kent Jones P.T. Anderson hits the mother lode GEORGE A. ROMERO'S DIARY OF THE DEAD By Robin Wood Forty years on, the horror maestro gets back to basics TAXIDERMIA By Robert Horton György Pálfi's multigenerational gross-out saga of bodily (dys)functions EDWARD YANG By Olivier Assayas The late Taiwanese trailblazer who was always in synch with the times RICHARD FLEISCHER By Richard Combs The may have dismissed him, but every critic has a favorite Fleischer film FINAL CUT 2007 20 Best Films of the Year poll 10 Best Lists Movies That Mattered Terra Incognita: Films to Watch Out For Kent Jones on Zodiac DEPARTMENTS EDITOR'S LETTER OPENING SHOTS Distributor Wanted: The Man from London by Chris Chang, Guy Maddin's Jolly Corner: I Married a Witch, Flashback: Andrzej Zulawski's The Third Part of the Night by Alex Cox, Site Specifics: Paul Fileri on DVD Beaver and Masters of Cinema ART OF THE REAL DIY docs by Paul Arthur SOUND & VISION Delphine Seyrig by Joe Milutis & Jose Alvarez by Chris Chang BRIEF ENCOUNTER Francis Ford Coppola by Harlan Jacobson SCREENINGS Ex Drummer by Chris Norris, Woman on the Beach by David E. James, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Kristen M. Jones, Caramel by Amy Taubin, The Unforseen by Paul Fileri, Chicago 10 by Paul Arthur, and Chop Shop by Megan Ratner HOME MOVIES The Films of Pierre Zucca by Elisabeth Lequeret, The Naked Prey Margaret Barton-Fumo, The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard by Gavin Smith, 3:10 to Yuma by Richard Combs, Across the Universe by Laura Kern, Payday by Daniel Stuyck, Class Relations by Michael Chaiken, Walker by Jake Perlin, The Director's Series: Jean-Luc Godard by Paul Fileri, The River Kent Jones READINGS David Bordwell's Poetics of Cinema by Joe McElhaney, Kevin Johnson's The Dark Page: Books That Inspired American Film Noir (1940-1949) by Chris Chang, Alexander Horwath and Michael Omasta's The Case of Lena Smith by Guy Maddin, Susan Tegel's Nazi and the Cinema by J. Hoberman ONLINE EXCLUSIVES Festival: 2008 Turin Film Festival by Nicolas Rapold Review: Transformers by Patrick Hebron Eletrik Alchemy: Claire Denis Films Sonic Youth by Daniel Stuyck
