FEATURES
BOYHOOD
By Holly Willis
Following the life of a boy from age 6 to 18, Richard Linklater literally takes his time
PHILIPPE GARREL
By Jean-Marc Lalanne & Jean-Baptiste Morain
An interview with the director of Jealousy reveals the roots and personal inspirations of his Cinema Povera methods
GAME CHANGERS
By Paul Schrader
The Birth of Narrative: part one of a history of the key technological advances that transformed filmmaking
JOANNA HOGG
By Jonathan Romney
An indie filmmaker breaks with the norms of British cinema to examine the dynamics of problematic relationships, and gives them a modernist spin in Exhibition
CLOSED CURTAIN
By Richard Combs
Banned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi embraces his confinement as a creative spur and delivers an allegorical psychodrama
DEPARTMENTS
Opening Shots
News, Hot Property: Myroslav Slaboshpytsky’s The Tribe by Nicolas Rapold, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die: Kirk Douglas’s Posse, Site Specifics: Toronto Film Review by Violet Lucca, Trivial Top 20®: Best Song Scores, Restoration Row by Max Nelson
ENCORE
Tom Noonan’s The Wife by Howard Hampton
SOUND & VISION
Daniel Schmid’s Tosca’s Kiss by Aaron Cutler and Francesco Vezzoli by Thom Andersen
A FACE IN THE CROWD
Paul Kelly by Chuck Stephens
critics’ choice
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
festivals
Cannes by Amy Taubin, Kent Jones, Gavin Smith, Dennis Lim, and Nicolas Rapold
screenings
Abuse of Weakness by Kristin M. Jones, Starred Up by Graham Fuller, Level Five by Howard Hampton
Short Takes
Begin Again by Steven Mears, The Green Prince by Nicolas Rapold, Life Itself by Eric Hynes, Love Is Strange by Eric Hynes, Magic in the Moonlight by Nicolas Rapold, Mood Indigo by Violet Lucca
HOME MOVIES
Scanners by Nathan Lee, Love Streams by José Teodoro, Red River by Robert Horton, Altman by Abbey Bender, Jean Epstein box set by Patrick Friel, Judex by Andres Zambrano-Bravo, Frozen by David Filipi, The Max Linder Collection by Aaron Cutler, Ghost Stories for Christmas box set by David Thompson
readings
Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology edited by Karen Smolens and Michael Temple, reviewed by J. Hoberman; Brainquake by Samuel Fuller, reviewed by Howard Hampton; Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde – Advertising – Modernity by Michael Cowan, reviewed by James Hughes; Watching Them Be: Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar by James Harvey, reviewed by Steven Mears
Graphic Detail
Hans Hillmann by Adrian Curry
