FEATURES
ON LIKEABILITY
By David Mamet
Don’t worry, be happy—or else
THE NEW WORLD
By Kent Jones
Terrence Malick’s sublime vision—and its limits
TERRY ZWIGOFF
By Howard Hampton
A cultish curmudgeon’s hidden humanism
JESSICA LANGE
By Kent Jones
The 30-year progress of a fearless actress
TYLER PERRY
By Edward E. Crouse
On the critic-proof Renaissance man
ELAINE MAY
By Chuck Stephens
The empress of American film comedy
GROSSES GLOSS 2005
By Donald Wilson and Roger Smith
The 31st annual box-office rundown plus The Year in Documentary by Paul Arthur
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR’S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Distributor Wanted: Mitsuo Yanagimachi’s Who’s Camus Anyway? by Mark Cummins, Channels: 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America by Nicolas Rapold, Flashback: Alex Cox on Red Dawn
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
2005 EXTENDED READERS’ POLL
Plus: Readers’ Comments
FIRST LOOK
Claude Chabrol’s Comedy of Power by Elisabeth Lequeret
SOUND & VISION
Fumio Hayasaka by Chris Chang & Franco Vezzoli’s Trailer For a Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula by Nathan Lee
OLAF’S WORLD
Experimental Documentarist William E. Jones by Olaf Möller
FESTIVALS
Sundance by Amy Taubin and Gavin Smith, Rotterdam by Chuck Stephens
SCREENINGS
L’Enfant by Richard Combs, Clean by Howard Hampton, Duck Season by Amy Taubin, 4 by Tony Pipolo, The Devil and Daniel Johnston by Paul Arthur
READINGS
American Movie Critics edited by Phillip Lopate, reviewed by Richard Combs
IN BRIEF
Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film by Marshall Fine, reviewed by Adam Nayman; Re-takes: Postcoloniality & Foreign Film Languages by John Mowitt, reviewed by Chris Chang; Conversations with Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute edited by George Stevens Jr., reviewed by Saul Austerlitz
HOME MOVIES
Michael Haneke’s Early Works by Gavin Smith, The Fernando Arrabal Collection by Manuel Yáñez Murillo, Blood and Wine by Chris Chang, A Donald Richie Film Anthology by Chuck Stephens
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who at recent film society events
