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Ian Johnston in issue 58 Still, Life: Looking at Jia Zhang-ke's Recent Masterpiece "Present-day society doesn't suit us because we're too nostalgic." in issue 57 Blow the Man Down: Aki Kaurismaki's Lights in the Dusk "The grafting on of the film's film noir plot has a reductionist minimalism to it, as if Kaurismaki were sketching an archetype . . ." Butterfly Dream: Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone "There's no overt sexuality to Rawang's care for Hsiao Kang. It's a tender act of love, a selfless giving of himself to another." in issue 56 Lost World: Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf Reconsidered "What we're given is a sense that the structures of our civilisation have broken down ..." No Exit: On Matthias Glasner's The Free Will "It's a critique that is one step away from excusing Theo (the ‘woman was asking for it' defence) ..." in issue 54 Train to Nowhere: On Renoir's La Bête Humaine "Now it is a world of studio sets and the precise control of the effects of light and shadow." in issue 53 "We're
Not Happy and We Never Will Be": On Cronaca di un amore School Daze: The Curious Young
Girls of Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence in issue 51 Wim, We Hardly Know Ye: On Wenders' Don't Come Knocking We're Just Taller Children: On the Dardennes' L'Enfant in issue 50 How
Sweet to Be a Cloud? Fancy and Fucking Collide in Tsai-Ming Liang's Latest in issue 48 Train to Somewhere: Hou Hsiao-hsien Pays Sweet
Homage to Ozu in Café Lumière Compliments to the Chef: Three . . . Extremes: Dumplings Expertly Mixes Social Critique and Questionable Cuisine in issue 47 Unhappy Together: Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 Plumbing the Depths: Renoir and
Kurosawa Do Gorky in issue 46 Martha, Interrupted: Fassbinder's 1974 Masterpiece on DVD |