FEATURES FASSBINDER By Katja Nicodemus Controversy over the sanitization of a dead filmmaker's life Plus: A statement by Fassbinder's colleagues THE DARJEELING LIMITED By Chris Norris All aboard Wes Anderson's soul train CRUISING By Melissa Anderson Is William Friedkin's 1980 film maudit homophobic or not? I'M NOT THERE By Larry Gross Todd Haynes's radical, prismatic, exploding Dylan whatsit SIDNEY LUMET By Gary Giddins With Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, the elder statesman of New York moviemaking lands another knockout punch DAVID CRONENBERG By Amy Taubin The director of Eastern Promises on Muslim extremism, the Russian mob, and a certain naked knife fight JACQUES RIVETTE By Jonathan Romney The inscrutable role-playing games of this French master continue with The Duchess of Langeais KIHACHI OKAMOTO By Tom Mes Why this major Japanese director's career remains unknown in the West DEPARTMENTS EDITOR'S LETTER OPENING SHOTS News, Distributor Wanted: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's Actress by Amy Taubin, Guy Maddin's Jolly Corner: Felix Feist's Deluge, Flashback: Richard Fleischer's Che! by Alex Cox, Site Specifics: Paul Fileri on UbuWeb CRITICS' CHOICE Eight critics rate 25 new and recent releases ENCORE Ralph Murphy's Girl Without a Room by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert SOUND & VISION Scott Walker by Chris Norris & Day Is Done by Chris Chang ART OF THE REAL Heddy Honigmann's Forever by Paul Arthur OLAF'S WORLD Joaquim Pedro de Andrade by Olaf Möller BRIEF ENCOUNTERS Anthony Hopkins by Harlan Jacobson FESTIVALS Bergman Week on Fårö by Laura Kern SCREENINGS Gone Baby Gone by Geoffrey O'Brien, Feast of Love by Andrew Sarris, Still Life by Richard Combs, The Brave One by Amy Taubin, The Last Winter by John Anderson, and The Untouchable by Paul Fileri HOME MOVIES Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934 by Paul Arthur, O Lucky Man! by Gavin Smith, Private Property by Amy Taubin, Witchfinder General, Maitland McDonagh, The First Films of Samuel Fuller by Margaret Barton-Fumo, Mathieu Amalric X 2 by Paul Fileri, Our Hitler, A Film From Germany by Michael Chaiken, Scarecrows by Laura Kern, Negativeland: Our Favorite Things by Jason Gross READINGS D.N. Rodowick's The Virtual Life of Film by Tom Gunning CLOSING SHOTS Who's who at recent Film Society events
FEATURES FASSBINDER By Katja Nicodemus Controversy over the sanitization of a dead filmmaker's life Plus: A statement by Fassbinder's colleagues THE DARJEELING LIMITED By Chris Norris All aboard Wes Anderson's soul train CRUISING By Melissa Anderson Is William Friedkin's 1980 film maudit homophobic or not? I'M NOT THERE By Larry Gross Todd Haynes's radical, prismatic, exploding Dylan whatsit SIDNEY LUMET By Gary Giddins With Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, the elder statesman of New York moviemaking lands another knockout punch DAVID CRONENBERG By Amy Taubin The director of Eastern Promises on Muslim extremism, the Russian mob, and a certain naked knife fight JACQUES RIVETTE By Jonathan Romney The inscrutable role-playing games of this French master continue with The Duchess of Langeais KIHACHI OKAMOTO By Tom Mes Why this major Japanese director's career remains unknown in the West DEPARTMENTS EDITOR'S LETTER OPENING SHOTS News, Distributor Wanted: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's Actress by Amy Taubin, Guy Maddin's Jolly Corner: Felix Feist's Deluge, Flashback: Richard Fleischer's Che! by Alex Cox, Site Specifics: Paul Fileri on UbuWeb CRITICS' CHOICE Eight critics rate 25 new and recent releases ENCORE Ralph Murphy's Girl Without a Room by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert SOUND & VISION Scott Walker by Chris Norris & Day Is Done by Chris Chang ART OF THE REAL Heddy Honigmann's Forever by Paul Arthur OLAF'S WORLD Joaquim Pedro de Andrade by Olaf Möller BRIEF ENCOUNTERS Anthony Hopkins by Harlan Jacobson FESTIVALS Bergman Week on Fårö by Laura Kern SCREENINGS Gone Baby Gone by Geoffrey O'Brien, Feast of Love by Andrew Sarris, Still Life by Richard Combs, The Brave One by Amy Taubin, The Last Winter by John Anderson, and The Untouchable by Paul Fileri HOME MOVIES Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934 by Paul Arthur, O Lucky Man! by Gavin Smith, Private Property by Amy Taubin, Witchfinder General, Maitland McDonagh, The First Films of Samuel Fuller by Margaret Barton-Fumo, Mathieu Amalric X 2 by Paul Fileri, Our Hitler, A Film From Germany by Michael Chaiken, Scarecrows by Laura Kern, Negativeland: Our Favorite Things by Jason Gross READINGS D.N. Rodowick's The Virtual Life of Film by Tom Gunning CLOSING SHOTS Who's who at recent Film Society events
