GRAND CANAL GOSSIP
By Harlan Kennedy
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are stillborn, plus other Venetian traumas
FRITZ LANG, OUR CONTEMPORARY
By Peter Hogue
The great German-American director—whose centenary is December 5—left a legacy that looks richer, and more modern, with each passing year
STORYTELLER
Barry Levinson interviewed by Gavin Smith
In quest of Avalon
SUNRISE IN BORA BORA
By Scott Eyman
In 1929, two world-class filmmakers, F.W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty, went to Tahiti to make a movie together, and wound up hating each other’s guts. A production history of the newly restored Tabu
STRAIGHT TO HELL
By Maitland McDonagh
Stephen Frears, Donald E. Westlake, and a never-better cast take on Jim Thompson’s The Grifters
THE POWER AND THE GLORY
By Michael Wilmington
If Theo Angelopoulos were the world’s greatest filmmaker, would U.S. audiences know about it? A career appreciation
CHILDREN OF PARADISE
By Kathleen Murphy
On Angelopoulos’s Landscape in the Mist
THE LONG TAKE IN VOYAGE TO CYTHERA
By Raymond Durgnat
Brecht & Marx vs. Bazin & God
WORKING UP TO POVERTY ROW
By Frank Thompson
Arthur Terry pursued mediocrity with a vengeance, stumbling every step of the way
FAULT LINES
By Mark Horowitz
Robert Towne wrote Chinatown, and no one’s about to let him forget it
DEAD HEAT ON A MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Kathleen Murphy
David Lynch’s sweet bird of arrested development, Wild at Heart
TUMULT IN THE CLOUDS
By Donald Lyons
The Memphis Belle flies again
SUNLESS DAYS
By David Chute
Toronto 1990: a fan’s notes
