Film Comment Current Issue Site Specifics Li Ying Manoel de Oliveira Distributor Wanted Cannes 1 Cannes 2 Barcelona Review Online Exclusives Archive Film Comment Selects Subscribe Buy Back Issues Advertising Distribution Indexes Contact Us   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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