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Features

Road to Perdition: Route 181

By Harlan Jacobson
June 1, 2011
Route 181, a controversial epic documentary about the state of relations between Israelis and Palestinians, scoops up plenty of reality on the ground, while history slips through its fingers

Beat Street: Johnny Staccato

By J. Hoberman
June 1, 2011
Meet Johnny Staccato, John Cassavetes' hipster TV detective

The Big B

By David Chute
June 1, 2011
The Rise and fall and rebirth of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan

Guided by Voices

By Chris Chang
June 1, 2011
Gus Van Sant's Last Days explores the sounds of silence—and suicide

The Director’s Studio: Shochiku

By Chuck Stephens
June 1, 2011
Home to Ozu’s delicately daft “home dramas” and hearth to the Oshima-ignited hellfire of the Japanese “New Wave,” the perpetually modern and perennially conservative Shochiku Studios celebrates the 110th anniversary of its extraordinary career

Mikio Naruse: The Other Women and The View from the Outside

By Chris Fujiwara
June 1, 2011
Chris Fujiwara examines the ouvre of Japanese master and women's director Mikio Naruse

Rules of Engagement: Morgan Fisher’s cinema of refusal and reflexivity

By Jim Supanick
June 1, 2011
On the great structural materialist

Mission Statement

By Gavin Smith
June 1, 2011
Paul Greengrass discusses the creative process behind his reconstruction of the worst day in history

Wake Up and Smell the New World

By Chris Fujiwara
June 1, 2011
Making John Waters and Walter Reade Jr. proud, the Japanese revive smelling what you see

Against the Grain: Ram Gopal Varma

By Grady Hendrix
June 1, 2011
Ram Gopal Varma, Bollywood’s most unBollywood director