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in issue 59
Stunted Lives: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, & 2 Days — Unsettling and unmissable
in issue 58
Safety First: The 45th New York Film Festival — The 2007 NYFF's more cautious than courageous this year
in issue 57
Movin' On Up: The 2007 Tribeca Film Festival — From neighborhood festival to NYC player
in issue 56
Treed by the Family: On 51 Birch Street — For boomers, "the idea that Mom and Dad are flawed human beings with complicated histories and real feelings can be hard to accept."
in issue 55
A Legacy Slight but Substantial: Fabián Bielinsky's Nine Queens and The Aura — "Who are you? Where do you come from?"
in issue 54
Less Is Less: The 44th New York Film Festival — Past trumps present in this unremarkable fest
in issue 53
Market Forces: Desperation in Caché, The Child, Paradise Now, and 13 Tzameti — Location, location, location
in issue 51
Everybody Has Something to Hide On Cronenberg's A History of Violence — Unmasking (the) America(n)
in issue 50
The Global Gaze: The 43rd New York Film Festival — Much to admire, little to love
in issue 49
Führerkontakt: The Emerging German Perspective on the Third Reich — "In short, completely normal."
in issue 48
Maybe Next Year: Slim Pickings at Berlinale 2005 — When good ideas go wrong
Shocking Times — Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue on DVD — While the counterculture turns on, Miles plugs in — with startling results
Mike Leigh's 20th Century Snaps: Vera Drake and Naked Two sides of the same desperate coin
in issue 46
The Verve Is Back: The New York Film Festival 2004 — This year's fest features a wealth of winners — and a few flops
in issue 45
Do the Wrong Thing: Confronting The Corporation — Corporations, go to the head of the line; everyone else, wait
A Succession of Presents: Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train — Pay attention to that man behind the curtain
in issue 44
I'm Not Scared — Gabriele Salvatores' powerful feature plumbs the darkness of "sunny Italy" in the 1970s
in issue 43
A Memoir of Circumstance and Substance: My Architect A son looks at a father and sees much more in this super doc
Architecture as Social Commentary: The Absurdities of Il Posto — Olmi's 1961 masterpiece comes to DVD in an excellent transfer
in issue 42
57th International Film Festival in Edinburgh — Not the best of times, not the worst of times
The 2003 New York Film Festival — This year's NYFF is a decidedly mixed bag of tricks
in issue 41
Knocking on Modernity's Door: I Vitelloni — Postwar despair, Italian style
His Brother's Keeper: Steve James' Stevie — The ills of this wounded Everyman may be beyond healing
in issue 40
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, 2003: A Review — Fine performances are the main attraction of this timely New York tribute to recent French film
The Beauty of Uncertainty: I Know Where I'm Going on DVD — Powell/Pressburger's fairy tale comes to life on Criterion's DVD
in issue 38
The 40th New York Film Festival — No reassurance and little escapism — just right for the current state of uncertainty"
in issue 36
The Burden of Dreams: Gianni Amelio's The Way We Laughed — The rise and fall of two brothers in postwar Italy
The 20th Bergamo Film Meeting, March 9-17, 2002 — This fine Italian festival features wide variety, no polemics
in issue 34
Rampaging Women in Five French-Language Films — As the world spins out of control, so do these women
