FEATURES
BURNS FILM CENTER
By Harlan Jacobson
If you build it, they will come: two years at the movies in Pleasantville
CAMP
By Chris Norris
A coming-of-age teen flick with a difference. Forget J-Lo: these kids worship at Sondheim’s altar. Writer-director Todd Graff said, “Let’s put on a show,” and the result is one of the most delightful films of the season
AMERICAN SPLENDOR
By Howard Hampton
Received wisdom: the comedy of Everyday American Dysfunction found on HBO and in the films of Alexander Payne, Charlie Kaufman, et al., is today’s cutting edge. A new film about Cleveland’s cult comic-book writer/depressive misfit joins their ranks. But how much of this edge depends on dividing the audience into Those Who Get It and everybody else
HULK
By Geoffrey O’Brien
A franchise is born—and one with brainpower as well as muscle. The ever-versatile Ang Lee’s new Hulk may be the smackdown action spectacle of the season, but it’s fueled at the core by a wounded psyche and an Oedipal conflict
SPECIAL MIDSECTION: CHRIS MARKER PART TWO
Marker’s Soviet legacy by Paul Arthur
Marker and Japan by Olaf Möller
Marker and the militant collective SLON by Min Lee
Marker’s writings by Sam Di Iorio and Michael Chaiken
Letter from Siberia by André Bazin
Immemory CD-ROM by Kent Jones
Description of a Struggle by J. Hoberman
Annotated filmography by Catherine Lupton, Sam Di Iorio, Min Lee, Michael Chaiken, J. Hoberman, & Chris Marker
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR’S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Books, Guilty Pleasures by Michael Barker, Letters
FIRST LOOK
Lost in Translation by Alice Lovejoy
JOURNAL
Copenhagen by Kim Foss
DISCOVERY
Robert Parigi by Amy Taubin
SOUND & VISION
The Death of Klinghoffer by Edward E. Crouse & Omer Fast by Chris Chang
STORYBOARD
“Night Frames” by Barry Yourgrau
FESTIVALS
Cannes by Amy Taubin, Kent Jones, Mary Corliss, Richard Peña, and Gavin Smith; San Francisco Film Festival by Alice Lovejoy; Tribeca by Amy Taubin
SCREENINGS
thirteen by Alissa Quart, La Commune (Paris, 1871) by Paul Arthur, Northfork by Michael Koresky, Matrix Reloaded by Tom Zummer, plus Chris Chang on Madame Satã, Cinemania, The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Buffalo Soldiers, Cremaster 3, The Holy Land & Suddenly
HOME MOVIES
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul by Gavin Smith
