FEATURES
Davis Guggenheim
By Christine Spines
The director of An Inconvenient Truth goes back to school with Waiting for “Superman”
Enter the Void
By Chris Norris
Gaspar Noé invites you to join him on the ultimate head trip
Never Let Me Go
By Kristin M. Jones
Life is short and bittersweet in Mark Romanek’s Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation
Online Criticism II
By Paul Brunick
Rumors of film criticism’s death have been greatly exaggerated
The Exorcist
By Kent Jones
The human factor that gives William Friedkin’s film its lasting power
Special NYFF Section
The Social Network
By Scott Foundas
It takes one jilted nerd to change the world per David Fincher’s new film
Film Socialisme
By Amy Taubin
Godard bids farewell to language—and perhaps to cinema itself (again)
Carlos
By J. Hoberman
Olivier Assayas goes for broke with his epic chronicle of a superstar terrorist
My Joy
By Anton Dolin
A grim, blackly funny journey ot the Russian dark side
Masahiro Shinoda
By Tom Mes
The Japanese New Waver who looked to history for the answers
Departments
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OPENING SHOTS
News, Hot Property, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die, Site Specifics, Trivial Top 20® Expanded to 50: Best Films Set in the Film World
Olaf’s World
Jacques Baratier by Olaf Möller
Sound & Vision
Steven Severin by Chris Chang & Teorema by Tony Pipolo
The Accidental Auterist
Sacha Guitry by Andrew Sarris
Brief Encounters
Abbas Kiarostami by Harlan Jacobson
Screenings
Tamara Drewe by Amy Taubin, Nuremberg by Nicolas Rapold, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by David Zuckerman, Last Train Home by Andrew Chan
Short Takes
Buried by Laura Kern, Catfish by Nicolas Rapold, Heartbreaker by Laura Kern, The Milk of Sorrow by Chris Chang, Nowhere Boy by Chris Chang, Vision by Nicolas Rapold
Home Movies
The Actuality Dramas of Allan King by Nicolas Rapold
Readings
Robert Horton on Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
