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August 2005 | Issue 49
Editorial
BL joins the war effort!
By Gary Morris
Articles
Looking at Charlie — the Mutuals: An Occasional Series on the Life and Work of Charlie Chaplin
By Alan Vanneman
"Love backed by force, forgiveness sweet, brings hope and peace to Easy Street"
Führerkontakt: The Emerging German Perspective on the Third Reich
By Megan Ratner
"In short, completely normal."
On On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Re-Viewing a Bond Masterwork
By Jason Sperb
"We have all the time in the world"
Superwomen? The Bad-Ass Babes of Sin City — or Are They?
By Dana Leventhal
This noir-drenched comic adaptation is retro in more ways than one
Pulp with a Soundtrack: Getting Elmore Leonard on Film
By Lesley Chow
"My sound is the absence of me." (Elmore Leonard)
Performance World: The Truman Show's Sociology
By Robert Castle
The show must go on
Isolating Isolationism: Recent INDEX Releases from the Austrian Avant-Garde
By Robert Mark Grossman & Andrew Grossman
Part 1: Austrian Exhibitionists
Movies
Batman Begins: Now with 50% fewer nipples!
By Alan Vanneman
It's one step forward, two steps backward as our long national aureoline nightmare refuses to end
Going My Way? The Hitchchiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Finally on Film
By Shari Last
Say "Slartibartfast" fast three times
Ready to Rumba? Dance Fever Doc Mad Hot Ballroom Busts a Groove
By Robert Keser
The kids are all right
The Cross and the Ukelele: Seijun Suzuki's Princess Raccoon
By Robert Keser
Suzuki blows morning glories
Bikini Bottom Babylon: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
By Robert Keser
He's fun-damental, not fundamentalist!
The Dark Side Inside: Thoughts on Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
By Shari Last
Anger leads to fear, fear leads to hate, hate leads to suffering ...
War of the Worlds: You Win Some, You Lose Some
By Alan Vanneman
Steven Spielberg meets Tom Cruise (again), and things get boring (again)
Thinking (and Talking) It Through: Arnaud Desplechin and Kings and Queen I
By Damon Smith
"Is there anything more dazzling than the possible?"
The Disturbance of the Real: Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen II
By A. Jay Adler
How real is the director's much-vaunted "multilayered depiction of reality"?
Crossing the Bridge: Jenni Olson's The Joy of Life
By Gary Morris
Navigating a haunted, and haunting, world
After Kieślowski: Six Recent Polish Films on DVD
By Sheila Skaff
Of Pornography and beyond
The Rage from Nowhere? Arthur Dong's Licensed to Kill Interviews Murderers of Gays
By Gary Morris
"I'm bad, but I'm locked up."
Stars
Margaret Sullavan and the Art of Dying
By Dan Callahan
"Now ... here comes the paradox ... "
Directors
The Human (Tragi)Comedy: Talking to Arnaud Desplechin
By Damon Smith
Of Kings and Queen and other subjects
The Kid Behind the Camera: Chatting up Darren Stein
By Gary Morris
Put the Camera on Me's queer wunderkind speaks
At War with Myself: A Word with Lars von Trier at Cannes 2005
By Karin Badt
On Manderley and more
Two by Jacques Becker: Casque d'or and Touchez pas au grisbi on DVD
By Matthew Kennedy
Criterion resurrects a French master
Private Rituals Made Public: The Lost Erotica of Fred Halsted
By Gary Morris
"The whole world wears a jockstrap!"
Rebel Girls: Six Documentaries by Kim Longinotto
By Gary Morris
On Dream Girls, The Day I Will Never Forget, Divorce Iranian Style, Shinjuku Boys, Gaea Girls, and Runaway
Columns
Distribute This! Privilege (Peter Watkins, 1967, Great Britain)
By Tom Sutpen
Watkins' savaging of commodified culture remains disturbingly relevant
Little Stabs of Happiness (and Horror): Random Short Reviews of the Worthy and the Worthless in Recent and Old-School Cinema
By Gary Morris
"It's a spring break party 24/7 365 days a year!"
Festivals
Capturing Chaos: On the 2005 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
By Cleo Cacoulidis
These docs and features show a world of upheaval – and, occasionally, hope
Everyday Freaks and Fantasy Wars: The 2005 San Francisco International Film Festival
By Joanne Bealy
It was the best of times ...
Recent Posts

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Gordon Thomas, and other BL staff, check out the eye- popping pleasures of Blu-Ray.

» Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
» The General (Keaton)
» Sunrise (Murnau)
» 8-1/2 (Fellini)
» Playtime (Tati)
» Winstanley (Brownlow & Mollo)
» My Childhood, My Ain Folk ... (Bill Douglas)
» In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima)
» Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney)
» Repulsion (Polanski)

BL Associate Editor Alan Vanneman watches (and reviews) television shows so you don't have to. Click if you dare.

» 30 Rock
» Broadway Theatre Archive
» Charlie’s Angels
» Death of a Salesman
» Freaks and Geeks
» Have Gun Will Travel
» Magnum P.I.
» Monk
» Pamela Anderson Roast

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