FEATURES
ROUTE 181
By Harlan Jacobson
An epic examination of Israel’s agony
THE AVIATOR
By Geoffrey O’Brien
The enigma who flew too high
CLINT EASTWOOD
By Amy Taubin
Interview with an undiminished icon
Plus: Taubin reviews Million Dollar Baby
HYBRID CINEMA
By Kent Jones
Fusing fact and fiction: an inquiry
JEAN-LUC GODARD
By Richard Combs and Raymond Durgnat
The director as actor
GODARD: THE INTERVIEW
By Frédéric Bonnaud
Before and after
2004 WRAP-UP
20 Best Films Poll
Movies that Mattered: Fahrenheit 9/11 by Chris Chang, The Big Red One: The Reconstruction by Kent Jones, Moolaadé/Vera Drake by Amy Taubin, Year of the Doc Redux by Paul Arthur, Kinsey by Paul Arthur, Tarnation/The Saddest Music in the World by Nathan Lee, Team America: World Police by Nathan Lee, The Passion of the Christ, Kent Jones
Industry: Chop Socky Soap Suds by Harlan Jacobson
Pixar: To Infinity and Beyond by Roger Smith
Terra Incognita: Aaltra by Jonathan Romney, Across the Border by Alice Lovejoy, La Demoiselle d’honneur by Frédéric Bonnaud, L’esquive by Frédéric Bonnaud, 5 X 2 by Jonathan Romney, Frau Fährt, Mann Schläft by Olaf Möller, The Garden by Kent Jones, Innocence by Jonathan Romney, Ma Mère by Chris Chang, Moth Games by Laura Kern, Pin Boy by Kent Jones, The Ring by Alice Lovejoy, Ten Skies by Alexander Horwath
Michael Tolkin’s Letter from Hollywood
OTAR IOSSELIANI
By Phillip Lopate
Sardonic visions of folly and vice from Georgia, by way of France
BRUCE CONNER
By Greil Marcus
A small film about a big painting
POLITICAL DOCS
By Alice Lovejoy
When small media collide
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR’S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Distributor Wanted: A Visit to the Louvre by Frédéric Bonnaud, Guy Maddin’s Jolly Corner: Guy Maddin on Random Harvest (1941)
CRITICS CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
OLAF’S WORLD
Olaf Möller on Theo van Gogh
SOUND & VISION
Gaucher & Shipp’s Combinations by Chris Chang and the paintings of Manny Farber by Jonathan Crary
FIRST LOOK
Andre Téchiné’s Les Temps qui changent by Serge Kaganski
FESTIVALS
Turin by Dave Kehr
SCREENINGS
Closer by Chris Norris, The Life Aquatic by Michael Agger, Spanglish by Alissa Quart
READINGS
Donald Bogle’s Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams by Wesley Morris
HOME MOVIES
Avant-garde roundup by Gavin Smith, La Ciénaga by Kent Jones, Salt and Pepper, One More Time, and Anna Lucasta by Guy Maddin, 6ixtynin9 by Chuck Stephens, Michael by Chris Chang
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who at recent Film Society events
