FEATURES
CARNAL EXTREMES
By Amy Taubin
Catherine Breillat and Asia Argento play a dangerous game in The Last Mistress
THE HEROIC IDEAL
By Nathan Lee
Chiewetel Ejiofor redefines the masculine code in Redbelt
ETHICAL CALCULUS
By Thomas Elsaesser
The cross-cultural dilemmas and moral burdens of Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven
BASIC INSTINCT
By Miriam Bale
The force of Jennifer Jones’s desire overpowered those who sought to possess her
THE ART OF SEEING WITH ONE’S OWN EYES
By Kent Jones
Darezhan Omirbaev, a world-class cinematic poet from, that’s right, Kazakhstan
FROM THE BARREL OF A GUN
By Howard Hampton
To mark the 40th anniversary of May ’68, a cinematic look back at the radical dreams and revolutionary fantasies of the children of Marx and Coca-Cola
MARATHON MAN
By Thomas Elsaesser
The stubborn persistence of Alexander Kluge, German cinema’s polymathic master strategist
DEPARTMENTS
OPENING SHOTS
News, Distributor Wanted: Estomago by Marcos Jorges, Alex Cox’s Flashback: Kon Ichikawa’s Fires on the Plain, Site Specifics: Paul Schrader by Paul Fileri
FADE OUT
Remembering Paul Arthur
OLAF’S WORLD
Olaf Möller on Svetlana Proskurina
SOUND & VISION
The cosmic dance-floor of Arthur Russell
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Eight critics review 25 new releases
PLAYBILL
Part 4 of the movie-poster travelogue by Lorenzo Buj
ENCORE
Robert Aldrich’s The Last Sunset by Brynn White
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Richard Jenkins by Harlan Jacobson
FESTIVALS
Berlin by Olaf Möller
SCREENINGS
Yella by Chris Drake, My Winnipeg by Kristin M. Jones, Encounters at the End of the World by Michael Chaiken, Operation Filmmaker by Rob Nelson
SHORT TAKES
Bigger, Stronger, Faster by Nicolas Rapold, Mister Lonely by Nicolas Rapold, Son of Rambow by Laura Kern, Tell No One by Laura Kern, Trumbo by Chris Chang
HOME MOVIES
New DVD releases include The Delirious Fictions of William Klein, Some Came Running, and Taviani Brothers X 3
READINGS
By Melissa Anderson
A Fifties icon (Doris Day) loses her virginal reputation
IN BRIEF
Samuel Fuller by Lisa Dombrowski, The New Face of Political Cinema by Martin O-Shaughnessy, The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody
CLOSING SHOTS
Special Events photos featuring Crispin Glover, Meryl Streep and Alan Alda
ONLINE EXCLUSIVES
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2008 by Laura Kern
RZA’s Edge: The RZA’s Guide to Kung-Fu Films by Jason Gross
