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July/August 2008

FEATURES


WALL•E
The genius of the Pixar system
by Kent Jones

Manoel de Oliveira
A user’s guide to the collected works of Portugal’s venerable master
by Jonathan Rosenbaum



Jacques Nolot
The actor-auteur continues to remember in Before I Forget
by Elisabeth Lequeret


The Exiles
An ethnographic and topographic time capsule from 1961
by Thom Andersen



Canadian Pseudo-Docs
A spate of hoax nonfiction films from north of the border
by Michael Atkinson




Nostromo
An unmade project sheds new light on David Lean’s creative imperatives
by Richard Combs



DEPARTMENTS




Encore
Gary Giddins on Larry Clark’s Passing Through



Brief Encounters
Harlan Jacobson interviews Ben Kingsley


Opening Shots
News, Distributor Wanted: In the City of Sylvia by J. Hoberman, Alex Cox’s Flashback, Site Specifics: davekehr.com, Letters

Olaf's World
Li Ying

Sound & Vision
CSNY Déjà Vu & William E. Jones’s Tearoom

Festivals
Cannes coverage by Amy Tabin, Kent Jones, Gavin Smith, Larry Gross, Richard Peña, and Joumane Chahine. Plus, Amy Taubin on Tribeca

Screenings
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Trouble the Water, Elegy, Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, and Boy A. Plus, short reviews of Full Battle Rattle, A Girl Cut in Two, I Served the King of England, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Mad Detective, Man on Wire, and The Wackness

Readings
X-Films by Alex Cox and more

Home Movies
The latest DVD releases







 

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