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Features

Mumblecore: All Talk?

By Amy Taubin
May 31, 2011
Supposedly the voice of its generation, the indie film movement known as Mumblecore has had its 15 minutes. Amy Taubin looks past the hype

The Defiant Defeatist: Eagle Pennell

By Daniel Stuyck
May 31, 2011
The rise and fall of a Texan maverick

NYFF Preview: In the Realm of the Senses

By Tony Rayns
May 30, 2011
From the September/October 1976 issue of Film Comment comes Tony Rayns's review of In the Realm of the Senses, written for the '76 New York Film Festival

The Body Politic

By Irina Leimbacher
May 29, 2011
The films of Nicolas Klotz interrogate the new world order from the lower depths to the executive suite

A Better Tomorrow

By Robin Wood
May 29, 2011
Lee Isaac Chung’s astonishing debut, Munyurangabo, finds life after death in the killing fields of Rwanda

Ethical Calculus

By Thomas Elsaesser
May 27, 2011
The cross-cultural dilemmas and moral burdens of Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven

RZA’s Edge

By Jason Gross
May 27, 2011
The unrepentant pleasures of hip-hop’s martial-arts-inspired superstar

Interview: Alexander Kluge

By Jan Dawson
May 27, 2011
Alexander Kluge interviewed by Jan Dawson, from the November/December 1974 issue of Film Comment

O LUCKY MAN!

By Raymond Durgnat
May 27, 2011
Or: The Adventures of a Clockwork Cheese

Basic Instinct

By Miriam Bale
May 27, 2011
The force of Jennifer Jones’s desire overpowered those who sought to possess her