FEATURES
RICHARD LINKLATER
By Gavin Smith
A Scanner Darkly and Fast Food Nation: two sides of the American nightmare
HOU HSAIO-HSIEN
By Howard Hampton
Rescuing the Taiwanese auteur from his good reputation
ON (NOT) WATCHING HORROR
By Vivian Sobchack
Looking awry at The Descent and Isolation
JOÃO PEDRO RODRIGUES
By Nathan Lee
On the prowl with Portugal’s gay cinematic renegade
PETER WHITEHEAD
By Henry K. Miller
A cinema-vérité misfit from the Sixties British underground
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR’S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Distributor Wanted: Pascale Breton’s Illumination by Chris Chang, Alex Cox’s Flashback: Alex Cox on The Fall of Fujimori, Guilty Pleasures by Neil Marshall, Letters
FADE OUT
Shohei Imamura, 1926-2006 by Chuck Stephens
OLAF’S WORLD
Olaf Möller on Romuald Karmakar
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
SOUND & VISION
Satyajit Ray by Philip Brophy & Godard at the Pompidou Center by Amy Taubin
THE BOTTOM LINE
Donald Wilson on the art-house crisis
ENCORE
Kent Jones on The Prisoner of Shark Island
ART OF THE REAL
Paul Arthur on first-person docs
FESTIVALS
Cannes by Amy Taubin, Kent Jones, Gavin Smith, Joumane Chahine, Richard Peña, and Phillip Lopate & Tribeca by Amy Taubin
SCREENINGS
The Devil Wears Prada by Nathan Lee, Gabrielle by Phillip Lopate, Clerks II by Rob Nelson, and Half Nelson by Melissa Anderson
HOME MOVIES
Beavis and Butt-Head Vol 1-3 by Gavin Smith, Inside Man by Wesley Morris, The Naked Spur by Kent Jones, The Joy of Life by Chris Chang, Cult of the Suicide Bomber by Paul Arthur, Star Spangled to Death by Mark McElhatten, Lifespan by Maitland McDonagh, The Cremator by Jake Perlin
READINGS
Rebecca and Sam Umland’s Donald Cammell: A Life on the Wild Side by Chris Chang
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who at recent Film Society events
ONLINE EXCLUSIVES
ELAINE MAY IN CONVERSATION WITH MIKE NICHOLS
Following a sold-out screening of her unfairly maligned 1987 comedy Ishtar, writer-director Elaine May took to the stage of New York’s Walter Reade Theater for an hour-long interview with her former collaborator
MALICK’S THE NEW WORLD
By Chris Fujiwara
TIME TO LEAVE
By Paul Fileri
