FEATURES CHE By Amy Taubin Steven Soderbergh sees double with his chronicle of the rise and fall of the iconic revolutionary ELECTION MOVIES By Howard Hampton Hollywood hits the campaign trail HERITAGE CINEMA By Graham Fuller Britain's tradition of quality from A Room With a View to The Duchess BALLAST By Rob Nelson A Sundance standout about overcoming desolate realities, past and present GENERATION KILL By Kent Jones The military work ethic is front and center in HBO's Iraq War series THE OTHER By Pablo Suarez A brooding, ambiguous meditation on one man's disappearing act ROB NILSSON By Dennis Harvey The vast canvas of San Francisco's under-the-radar grassroots maverick NAGISA OSHIMA By Tony Rayns The great dissident of Sixties Japanese cinema PIERRE CLEMENTI By Michael Chaiken The electrifying countercultural star who personified the union of the sacred and the profane. Plus: Clémenti rocks out in Marc'O's 1968 pop spectacle Les Idoles, revisited by Sam Di Iorio DEPARTMENTS EDITOR'S LETTER OPENING SHOTS News, Distributor Wanted: The Mugger by Chris Chang, Flashback: Alex Cox on The Sorrow and the Pity, Site Specifics: Europa Film Treasures, David Koepp's Guilty Pleasures OLAF'S WORLD Olaf Möller on Allan Sekula ENCORE Nagisa Oshima's Boy by Megan Ratner SOUND & VISION Karlheinz Stockhausen by Joe Milutis & Tacita Dean by Chris Chang BRIEF ENCOUNTERS Julianne Moore by Harlan Jacobson SCREENINGS Happy-Go-Lucky by Amy Taubin, What Just Happened by Bob Strauss, Momma's Man by Nathan Lee, Let the Right One In by Laura Kern SHORT TAKES Choke by Chris Chang, Mister Foe by Nicolas Rapold, Moving Midway by Nicolas Rapold, Ping Pong Playa by Laura Kern, The Pool by Nicolas Rapold, RocknRolla by Laura Kern, Towelhead by Nicolas Rapold HOME MOVIES Ken Russell at the BBC by David Thompson; The Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way by Chris Darke; 3 by Max Ophuls by Evan Davis; Stuck by Laura Kern; Rat-Trap aka Elippathayam by Paul Brunick; Bashing by Andrew Chan; Six in Paris by Paul Fileri; Hill 24 Doesn't Answer by Kent Jones; Lips of Blood by Maitland McDonagh; Marco Ferreri by David Zuckerman; Beaufort by Chris Chang READINGS David Thomson's “Have you seen…?” by Richard Combs IN BRIEF Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia by Chris Darke, The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Creator of El Topo by Margaret Barton-Fumo, Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together by Joshua Cody CLOSING SHOTS Who's who at recent Film Society events
FEATURES CHE By Amy Taubin Steven Soderbergh sees double with his chronicle of the rise and fall of the iconic revolutionary ELECTION MOVIES By Howard Hampton Hollywood hits the campaign trail HERITAGE CINEMA By Graham Fuller Britain's tradition of quality from A Room With a View to The Duchess BALLAST By Rob Nelson A Sundance standout about overcoming desolate realities, past and present GENERATION KILL By Kent Jones The military work ethic is front and center in HBO's Iraq War series THE OTHER By Pablo Suarez A brooding, ambiguous meditation on one man's disappearing act ROB NILSSON By Dennis Harvey The vast canvas of San Francisco's under-the-radar grassroots maverick NAGISA OSHIMA By Tony Rayns The great dissident of Sixties Japanese cinema PIERRE CLEMENTI By Michael Chaiken The electrifying countercultural star who personified the union of the sacred and the profane. Plus: Clémenti rocks out in Marc'O's 1968 pop spectacle Les Idoles, revisited by Sam Di Iorio DEPARTMENTS EDITOR'S LETTER OPENING SHOTS News, Distributor Wanted: The Mugger by Chris Chang, Flashback: Alex Cox on The Sorrow and the Pity, Site Specifics: Europa Film Treasures, David Koepp's Guilty Pleasures OLAF'S WORLD Olaf Möller on Allan Sekula ENCORE Nagisa Oshima's Boy by Megan Ratner SOUND & VISION Karlheinz Stockhausen by Joe Milutis & Tacita Dean by Chris Chang BRIEF ENCOUNTERS Julianne Moore by Harlan Jacobson SCREENINGS Happy-Go-Lucky by Amy Taubin, What Just Happened by Bob Strauss, Momma's Man by Nathan Lee, Let the Right One In by Laura Kern SHORT TAKES Choke by Chris Chang, Mister Foe by Nicolas Rapold, Moving Midway by Nicolas Rapold, Ping Pong Playa by Laura Kern, The Pool by Nicolas Rapold, RocknRolla by Laura Kern, Towelhead by Nicolas Rapold HOME MOVIES Ken Russell at the BBC by David Thompson; The Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood, My Ain Folk, My Way by Chris Darke; 3 by Max Ophuls by Evan Davis; Stuck by Laura Kern; Rat-Trap aka Elippathayam by Paul Brunick; Bashing by Andrew Chan; Six in Paris by Paul Fileri; Hill 24 Doesn't Answer by Kent Jones; Lips of Blood by Maitland McDonagh; Marco Ferreri by David Zuckerman; Beaufort by Chris Chang READINGS David Thomson's “Have you seen…?” by Richard Combs IN BRIEF Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia by Chris Darke, The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Creator of El Topo by Margaret Barton-Fumo, Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together by Joshua Cody CLOSING SHOTS Who's who at recent Film Society events
