FEATURES
DENZEL WASHINGTON
By Gavin Smith
The A-list actor leaves his comfort zone behind with Flight
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
By Richard Combs
Britain reclaims the Master of Suspense by resurrecting his earliest features
ROOM 237
By B. Kite
Obsessive theories about Kubrick’s The Shining get their day in court
TABU
By Haden Guest
Miguel Gomes’s tale of doomed love and faded hopes in Portugal’s colonial past
BOOK-LENGTH FILM STUDIES
By Jonathan Rosenbaum
Two literary stars get up close and personal with films by Tarkovsky and Ozu
BRUCE GOLDSTEIN
By Kent Jones
The repertory programmer of New York’s Film Forum talks about life in the trenches of cinephilia
RED DAWN
By J . Hoberman
Same paranoia, different bogeymen: a Reagan-era classic gets a makeover
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR’S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Hot Property: Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely by Nicolas Rapold, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die: George and Beth Gage’s Bidder 70, Site Specifics: La furia umana by Jesse P. Finnegan, The Trivial Top 20®: Best Live-Action Musicals Since 1970
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Cristian Mungiu by Harlan Jacobson
ENCORE
Wu Nien-jen’s A Borrowed Life by Andrew Chan
FURTHER RESEARCH
Hugo Fregonese by Dave Kehr
SOUND & VISION
Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher by Chris Chang & 3MB by Violet Lucca
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
FESTIVALS
Venice by Olaf Möller, Toronto by Gavin Smith and Nicole Armour, and Locarno by Chris Darke
SCREENINGS
Silver Linings Playbook by Emma Myers, The Central Park Five by Chris Chang, Cloud Atlas by Violet Lucca
SHORT TAKES
Anna Karenina by Graham Fuller, Chasing Ice by Chris Chang, The Comedy by Nicolas Rapold, The Impossible by Chris Chang, Rust and Bone by Laura Kern, This Must Be the Place by Nicolas Rapold
HOME MOVIES
Sokurov: Early Masterworks by Chris Chang, Twilight’s Last Gleaming by Chuck Stephens, Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles by David Filipi, Études sur Paris by Patrick Friel, When Horror Came to Shochiku by Travis Crawford, Born to Be Bad by Chris Chang, Sunday Bloody Sunday by Emma Myers, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Graham Corrigan, The Sorcerers by Sarah Mankoff, Mundane History by Meredith Slifkin
READINGS
David Denby’s Do the Movies Have a Future?, reviewed by Peter Tonguette; Kent Jones’s Olivier Assayas & Olivier Assayas’s A Post-May Adolescence, reviewed by Nico Baumbach; David Luhrssen’s Mamoulian: Life on Stage and Screen, reviewed by Justin Stewart
CLOSING SHOTS
Who’s who at recent Film Society events
