FEATURES
BORAT
By Nathan Lee
A cretin from Kazakhstan pushes America’s buttons
AGNÈS B.
By Amy Taubin
A vogue for cinema
THE DEPARTED
By Jean-Pierre Gorin
The high-stakes psych-outs of Scorsese’s thriller
THE AURA
By Geoffrey O’Brien
Fabián Bielinsky’s hypnotic swan song
EUGÈNE GREEN
By Jonathan Romney
In his philosophical oeuvre, language is all
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
By David Thompson
Seventies art cinema’s erotic provocateur
CHRISTOPHER GUEST
By Kent Jones
Team spirit strikes comedic gold
MARK LAPORE
By Tom Gunning
The ethical dilemmas of an avant-garde ethnographer
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR’S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Distributor Wanted: Julia Loktev’s Day Night Day Night by Chris Chang, Guy Maddin’s Jolly Corner: Guy Maddin on Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s House of Strangers, Guilty Pleasures by Crispin Glover, Alex Cox’s Flashback: Loose Change
ENCORE
Phillip Lopate on Alberto Lattuada’s Mafioso
ART OF THE REAL
Paul Arthur on Michael Apted’s “7 Up” series
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
SOUND & VISION
Funky Forest by Philip Brophy & Catherine Chalmers by Chris Chang
OLAF’S WORLD
Olaf Möller on The New Crowned Hope festival
FESTIVALS
Venice by Olaf Möller & Toronto by Gavin Smith, Mark Olsen, and Nicole Armour
SCREENINGS
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes by Guy Maddin, Volver by Manuel Yánez Murillo, What is it? by Nathan Lee, Fast Food Nation by Kristin M. Jones, Our Daily Bread by Holly Willis
HOME MOVIES
Baby Face by Gavin Smith, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One by Paul Arthur, Paris Belongs to Us by Paul Fileri, The Family Game by Chuck Stephens, Dust Devil by Maitland McDonagh, The Norliss Tapes by Chris Chang, Police Squad! By Gavin Smith, Preston Sturges Collection by Kent Jones
READINGS
The Village Voice Film Guide: 50 Years of Movies from Classics to Cult Hits edited by Dennis Lim, reviewed by Dudley Andrew; The Kapoors: The First Family of Indian Cinema by Madhu Jain, reviewed by David Chute; Hollywood and War: The Film Reader edited by J. David Slocum, reviewed by Saul Austerlitz; Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans by Simon Callow, reviewed by José Teodoro
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who at recent Film Society events
