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May 2007 | Issue 56
Editorial
Articles
Fashion and Dunst: The Substance of Marie Antoinette
By Lesley Chow
"The Coppola ideal is a young girl trapped in fustiness: she can be an object of voyeurism without a trace of lewdness, and remain spiritually intact even when accessorized."
The Mothering of Evil: In Several Hitchcock Films
By Robert Castle
"She is so enthralled by her boy, the loving product from her own body, that she remains blind to his true nature."
Fear of Fishing: Closets and Product Placement in Hawks' Man's Favorite Sport?
By Erich Kuersten
Bwaaaaah!
Digitizing the Cold War: Olympic Wish Fulfillment in Tron
By James Corbett
"The blue Tron team delivers the red team the drubbing the Americans were never able to deliver the Soviets . . ."
Sovereign Remedies: Queen of Hearts to President
By D. J. M. Saunders
A Progress
No Exit: On Matthias Glasner's The Free Will
By Ian Johnston
"It's a critique that's one step away from excusing Theo (the 'woman was asking for it' defence) . . ."
Lost World: Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf Reconsidered
By Ian Johnston
"What we're given is a sense that the structures of our civilisation have broken down . . ."
Across the Great Divide: Canadian Popular Cinema in the 21st Century
By David L. Pike
Indigenous film, global dreams
Of Sexual Hate and Lonely Death: The Mysteries of Pandora's Box
By Gordon Thomas
"When what you write about is what you see/What do you write about when it's dark?" (Charles Wright)
Tight Pants in Paradise: Tom Selleck Is Magnum, P.I.
By Alan Vanneman
Keats, Shelley, and firm, manly thighs
"Pity Poor Flesh": Terrible Bodies in the Films of Carpenter, Cronenberg, and Romero
By Jesse Stommel
"We are always already in a state of being on the cusp of an unraveling, a violent deconstruction, an explosive discharge of disruption and freeplay . . ."
Movies
Moanin' Low: On Craig Brewer's Black Snake Moan
By Anya Meksin
Stick to the trailer
Will Ferrell on Ice! Speck & Gordon's Blades of Glory
By Alan Vanneman
No Betty White, but funny!
Billy Ray's Breach: At Last, a Film as Boring as DC!
By Alan Vanneman
The evil that men do in a Fairfax County regional park
Uncovering the Romantic Bond: Thoughts on Casino Royale
By Charles Lord
"By describing a conscience for James Bond the character, the story has provided a subconscious for James Bond the movies
Being John, Seeing Stanley: John Malkovich in Brian Cook's Colour Me Kubrick: A True . . . ish Story
By Alan Vanneman
"Plot keywords: drugs, glamour, party, rent boy, sex, bisexual, celebrity, con artist, male model"
In Like Clint! Letters from Iwo Jima Is Excellent
By Alan Vanneman
With one, yeah, pretty major caveat
Isn't It Romantic? Hugh and Drew in Marc Lawrence's Music and Lyrics
By Alan Vanneman
The King of the Backseat Blowjob gets mildly post-ironist on your ass
Man in the Dark: On David Fincher's Zodiac
By Tony Macklin
"A brutal, slick game"
Treed by the Family: On 51 Birch Street
By Megan Ratner
For boomers, "the idea that Mom and Dad are flawed human beings with complicated histories and real feelings can be hard to accept."
Anorexic Logic: On American Psycho
By Amy Nolan
"I should like to keep that out of me"
Stars
Extinguishing Features: The Last Years of Richard Pryor
By Julian Upton
A genius self-destructs, with a little help from Hollywood
Uneasy Living: The Insecure Charm of Jean Arthur
By Dan Callahan
"Funny, tender, a little neurotic, a little erotic, and always spontaneous . . ."
Directors
Nearer My Corman to Thee: Roger Corman Remembers, and Roger Corman Remembered
By Damien Love
Give us another naked nurse and some more explosions!
Our Time of Troubles: Ken Loach on War, Irish History, and The Wind That Shakes the Barley
By Damon Smith
"But I was accused of enjoying walking up and down the red carpet! Their rage knew no bounds."
Columns
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Mouchette, 1900, Siberiade, Oyster Princess, I Don't Want to Be a Man, King Lear, Another Sky
By Gordon Thomas
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
Festivals
Secrets of the European Union: Chicago's Tenth Annual EU Film Festival
By Robert Keser
They saw what you did!
On the Border of the Thermian Gulf: The Ninth Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
By Karin Luisa Badt
"The documentaries that most stood out have a near fictional flair, blurring the border between reality and fable."
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