FEATURES MILK By Nathan Lee Gus Van Sant honors an American hero in another chronicle of death foretold CATHERINE DENEAUVE By Arnaud Desplechin The director of A Christmas Tale interviews his regal leading lady ASHES OF TIME REDUX By Howard Hampton Wong Kar Wai's tuned-up martial-arts roundelay WALTZ WITH BASHIR By Stuart Klawans An animated j'accuse sifts through uneasy memories of Israel at war ANDRE BAZIN By Dudley Andrew The founding father of modern film criticism continues to make waves WENDY AND LUCY By Kristin M. Jones Kelly Reichardt keeps the faith with the people who fall through the safety net WHITE DOG By Lisa Dombrowski How Hollywood tried to tame Sam Fuller's racially incendiary mongrel GABRIELLE By Robin Wood The existential, anti-capitalist, and feminist imperatives that guide Patrice Chéreau's 2005 drama of marital collapse PATRICE CHEREAU By David Ehrenstein The physically and emotionally intense cinema of the French auteur behind Gabrielle DEPARTMENTS EDITOR'S LETTER OPENING SHOTS New, Hot Property: Tulpan by Chris Chang, Flashback: Alex Cox on Cemetery Without Crosses, Site Specifics: Order of the Exile, Letters CRITICS' CHOICE Eight critics rate 25 new releases FADE OUT Manny Farber, 1917-2008 by Kent Jones ENCORE Demon Lover Diary and Seventeen by Rob Nelson SOUND & VISION Straub-Huillet's Moses and Aaron by Allen Shawn & Steve McQueen's Hunger by Chris Chang BRIEF ENCOUNTERS Mike Leigh by Harlan Jacobson FESTIVALS Venice by Olaf Möller; Toronto by Mark Olsen, Nicole Armour, and Gavin Smith; Locarno by Chris Darke SCREENINGS The Secret of the Grain by Elisabeth Lequeret, Slumdog Millionaire by Nicolas Rapold, JCVD by Evan Davis, Synecdoche, New York by Chris Norris SHORT TAKES The Betrayal by Nicolas Rapold, Dust by Nicolas Rapold, Lake City by Laura Kern, Splinter by Laura Kern, Theater of War by Nicolas Rapold, Timecrimes by Laura Kern HOME MOVIES Sexploitation Labels Roundup by Maitland McDonagh, The New Centurions by Gavin Smith, Europa by Nicolas Rapold, The Films of Budd Boetticher by Paul Brunick, Roberto Rosellini: Director's Series by Chris Chang, Ludwig by David Zuckerman, Valerie and her Week of Wonders by Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, The Dark Knight by Kent Jones, What? By David Thompson, Venom and Eternity by Patrick Friel, Pineapple Express by Paul Brunick READINGS David Zuckerman on Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film IN BRIEF Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word by Nicolas Rapold, Making Movies with Orson Welles: A Memoir by Peter Tonguette, Terrence Malick by José Teodoro CLOSING SHOTS Who's who at recent Film Society events Purchase this issue ONLINE EXCLUSIVES Bigger Than Life by Paul Brunick Magnificent Obsession by David Zuckerman Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2008 by Laura Kern Don't Look Back: An Interview with Bruce Posner by Chris Chang
FEATURES MILK By Nathan Lee Gus Van Sant honors an American hero in another chronicle of death foretold CATHERINE DENEAUVE By Arnaud Desplechin The director of A Christmas Tale interviews his regal leading lady ASHES OF TIME REDUX By Howard Hampton Wong Kar Wai's tuned-up martial-arts roundelay WALTZ WITH BASHIR By Stuart Klawans An animated j'accuse sifts through uneasy memories of Israel at war ANDRE BAZIN By Dudley Andrew The founding father of modern film criticism continues to make waves WENDY AND LUCY By Kristin M. Jones Kelly Reichardt keeps the faith with the people who fall through the safety net WHITE DOG By Lisa Dombrowski How Hollywood tried to tame Sam Fuller's racially incendiary mongrel GABRIELLE By Robin Wood The existential, anti-capitalist, and feminist imperatives that guide Patrice Chéreau's 2005 drama of marital collapse PATRICE CHEREAU By David Ehrenstein The physically and emotionally intense cinema of the French auteur behind Gabrielle DEPARTMENTS EDITOR'S LETTER OPENING SHOTS New, Hot Property: Tulpan by Chris Chang, Flashback: Alex Cox on Cemetery Without Crosses, Site Specifics: Order of the Exile, Letters CRITICS' CHOICE Eight critics rate 25 new releases FADE OUT Manny Farber, 1917-2008 by Kent Jones ENCORE Demon Lover Diary and Seventeen by Rob Nelson SOUND & VISION Straub-Huillet's Moses and Aaron by Allen Shawn & Steve McQueen's Hunger by Chris Chang BRIEF ENCOUNTERS Mike Leigh by Harlan Jacobson FESTIVALS Venice by Olaf Möller; Toronto by Mark Olsen, Nicole Armour, and Gavin Smith; Locarno by Chris Darke SCREENINGS The Secret of the Grain by Elisabeth Lequeret, Slumdog Millionaire by Nicolas Rapold, JCVD by Evan Davis, Synecdoche, New York by Chris Norris SHORT TAKES The Betrayal by Nicolas Rapold, Dust by Nicolas Rapold, Lake City by Laura Kern, Splinter by Laura Kern, Theater of War by Nicolas Rapold, Timecrimes by Laura Kern HOME MOVIES Sexploitation Labels Roundup by Maitland McDonagh, The New Centurions by Gavin Smith, Europa by Nicolas Rapold, The Films of Budd Boetticher by Paul Brunick, Roberto Rosellini: Director's Series by Chris Chang, Ludwig by David Zuckerman, Valerie and her Week of Wonders by Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, The Dark Knight by Kent Jones, What? By David Thompson, Venom and Eternity by Patrick Friel, Pineapple Express by Paul Brunick READINGS David Zuckerman on Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film IN BRIEF Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word by Nicolas Rapold, Making Movies with Orson Welles: A Memoir by Peter Tonguette, Terrence Malick by José Teodoro CLOSING SHOTS Who's who at recent Film Society events Purchase this issue ONLINE EXCLUSIVES Bigger Than Life by Paul Brunick Magnificent Obsession by David Zuckerman Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2008 by Laura Kern Don't Look Back: An Interview with Bruce Posner by Chris Chang
