FEATURES
HOU HSIAO-HSIEN
By Aliza Ma
The Taiwanese master discusses his transcendent wuxia film The Assassin and his affinity with its deadly heroine. Plus: Hou and his cast share production secrets with Rubing Liang
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM
By Jonathan Romney
Cinema’s most delirious fabulist Guy Maddin outdoes himself with his latest passionate creation—the mother of all film pastiches
MY GOLDEN DAYS
By Howard Hampton
Revisiting and revising a recurring protagonist, Arnaud Desplechin’s delicately wrought film reflects upon the workings of love, memory, and self
EXPERIMENTER
By David Thomson
Who makes the Nazis? Michael Almereyda’s shrewd film plumbs Stanley Milgram’s groundbreaking (and heartbreaking) research on just following orders
SICARIO
By José Teodoro
Delving into the bloody chaos of the narco cartels, Denis Villeneuve continues his nightmarish cinematic journeys deep into real-world horrors
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
By Scott Eyman
The prototypical swashbuckler could skate on air and leave ladies swooning, but his filmmaking was as sharp as his blade
GAME CHANGERS
By Paul Schrader
Widescreen: part six of a technological history of cinema
DEPARTMENTS
Editor’s letter
Opening Shots
News, Hot Property: Philippe Faucon’s Fatima by Nicolas Rapold, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die: Frank Perry’s ‘Doc’, Site Specifics: teenscreenfeminism.wordpress.com by Violet Lucca, Trivial Top 20: Worst Fictional Art, Matías Piñeiro’s In the Moment: Gloria Grahame in The Cobweb, Restoration Row: Lyda Borelli by Max Nelson
FADE OUT
Christopher Lee by John Landis
SOUND & VISION
Samuel Fuller’s Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street by James Hughes and Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog by Violet Lucca
ENCORE
Steve De Jarnatt’s Cherry 2000 and Miracle Mile by Robert Horton
CRITICS’ CHOICE
Eight critics rate 25 new releases
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Robert Zemeckis by Harlan Jacobson
OLAF’S WORLD
Wojciech Smarzowski by Olaf Möller
FESTIVALS
Nitrate Picture Show by Nick Pinkerton
SCREENINGS
Time Out of Mind by Kristin M. Jones, Freeheld by Andrew Chan, Taxi by Richard Combs, Queen of Earth by Eric Hynes
SHORT TAKES
Beasts of No Nation by Nicolas Rapold, Breathe by Yonca Talu, The Final Girls by Laura Kern, The New Girlfriend by Graham Fuller, 99 Homes by Nicolas Rapold, Pawn Sacrifice by Steven Mears
HOME MOVIES
Paulo Rocha (Collector’s Edition) by Aaron Cutler, British Noir by Michael Sragow, Spasmo by Marc Walkow, Run of the Arrow by Steven Mears, Seventeen by Chris Boeckmann, Some Call It Loving by Yonca Talu, The Harvest by Tanner Tafelski, Ken Jacobs 3 x 3D by R. Emmet Sweeney, Society by Violet Lucca, People Places Things by Erin Delaney
READINGS
The New Scottish Cinema by Jonathan Murray, reviewed by Graham Fuller; Binghamton Babylon: Voices from the Cinema Department, 1967-1977 by Scott M. MacDonald, reviewed by R. Emmet Sweeney; Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind by Josh Karp, reviewed by Michael Joshua Rowin; Marc Karlin: Look Again edited by Holly Aylett, reviewed by Giovanni Vimercati
GRAPHIC DETAIL
Karel Vaca by Adrian Curry
