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INTERVIEWS Lisandro Alonso (Los Muertos) Brad Anderson (The Machinist) Paul Thomas Anderson (Puch-Drunk Love) by Mitja Okorn Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) Jack Angel (voice of Teddy, A.I.) Barbato, Bailey & St James (Party Monster) James Benning: Homeland Security (full transcript) Circling James Benning (abridged magazine version) Jonathan Breck (actor, Jeepers Creepers 2) Kim Chapiron (Sheitan) Paddy Considine (actor, In America) Jan Cvitkovic (Bread and Milk) Ken Duken (actor) Robert Duvall (actor, Open Range) Marc Evans (My Little Eye) Juan-Carlos Fresnadillo (Intacto) Cesc Gay (writer-director, In The City) Eva Green (actress, The Dreamers) Hare & Martin (Amber Collective writer-directors, Like Father) Toby Kebbell (actor, Dead Man's Shoes) McCarthy, Dinklage & Cannavale (The Station Agent) John McNaughton (Henry - Portrait of a Serial Killer) Mackenzie brothers (The Last Great Wilderness) Mahamet-Saleh Haroun (Abouna) Shane Meadows (Dead Man's Shoes) David Morrissey (actor, Captain Corelli's Mandolin) PARK Chan-Wook (OLDBOY) J T Petty (Soft For Digging) Julian Richards (The Last Horror Movie) Graham Robertson (Able Edwards) Victor Salva (Jeepers Creepers) Paul Sarossy (Mr In-Between) Cate Shortland (Somersault) Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) Ondi Timoner (Dig!) Paul Verhoeven Peter Webber (Girl With a Pearl Earring) Owen Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums) YING Liang (Taking Father Home)
ESSAY-LENGTH REVIEWS (usually 1,000+ words) Barking Up the Wrong Tree : Lars Von Trier's Dogville Boys from the Black Stuff : Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood A Capital Offence : Gabriele Muccino's The Pursuit of Happyness The Case Against Vera Drake (Mike Leigh) Chilly Scenes of Wintour : David Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada China In Your Hand : Xiaolu GUO's How Is Your Fish Today? The China Syndrome : YING Liang's The Other Half Confessions of a Barge-Hand : David Mackenzie's Young Adam Cracked Actress : David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE The Creature Wasn't Nice : Matt Reeves' Cloverfield < Crimes of the Future : Richard Loncraine's Firewall Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom : Richard Eyre's Notes on a Scandal Defending Troy (Wolfgang Petersen) Disinterring The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (Jorge Grau) Distant Relatives: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Uzak Fear of a Black BMW : Christian Petzold's The State I Am In Fun with a Fin : Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Gonna Fly Now : Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa The Horror of Ingmar Bergman : Persona Is Chaos Director an Incomprehensible Demon-Man? : Miike Takashi's Izo Kerbside Justice : Nick Love's Outlaw K is for Chaos (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Lost in Translation : Lone Scherfig's Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself The Mayan Event : Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (Michael,) Marty and Howard : Martin Scorsese's The Aviator Mind Warp : David Fincher's Zodiac Motown Junk : Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile Nathan Algren's Blues : Edward Zwick's The Last Samurai A New Wave : John Stockwell's Blue Crush Nothing Up There : William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration O Brother : James Gray's We Own the Night Ogre and Out? : Chris Miller's Shrek the Third Oh, Carolina! : Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain Oh Mercy : Todd Haynes's I'm Not There Out Come the Greeks : Friedberg & Seltzer's Meet the Spartans Patriot Games : Shane Meadows' This Is England Plague It Again, Sam : Stephen Hopkins' The Reaping Pulling the Strings : Hranitzky & Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies Resisting the Bait : Tim Burton's Big Fish Road Kill : Robert Harmon's Highwaymen Robertson In Space : Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger Santa Claus Conquers the Nazis : Andrew Adamson's Narnia I Saves the Day : Kazuaki Kiriya's Casshern A Sleight Case of Murder : Neil Burger's The Illusionist Slices of Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughan) Sloppy Joe and Me : Orson Welles' Citizen Kane The Slow Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes) Songs of Innocence and Experience : M Night Shyamalan's The Village Standard Liege : the Dardenne brothers' The Child Strangers on the Shore : Luis Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel Theme From Sparta F C : Zack Snyder's 300 Tolkien Transcended : Peter Jackson's Return of the King Travels in Hyperreality : Michael Mann's Miami Vice Uncertain Foundations : Vadim Perelman's House of Sand and Fog Unfortunate Travellers : Eli Roth's Hostel Unwise Blood : Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ Upstairs, Downstairs : Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger A Weapon Loaded With Future : Achero Manas' November
ARTICLES WRITTEN FOR PRINT-MEDIA AND OTHER WEBSITES Betting on the 2001 Oscars (for The Independent) China In Your Hand : Xiaolu Guo's How Is Your Fish Today? (for Ekran) Christmas 2002 Oscar Stocktaking (for Oscarwatch) Coming: (for Contrapicado) Day-Lewis Waxes Lyrical For Gangs (for The Independent) Flowers, Iron, Whisky and Violence : Top Ten for 2005 (for Tribune) A History Of A History of Violence (for Schokkend Nieuws) High Priests of Harmful Matter : The Libertine, Stoned, Factotum (for Tribune) House of Quentin, House of Daggers (for Impact) Reese vs Ross : Final Fantasy and Legally Blonde (for The Independent) The Wizard's Sleeve : Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Preview (for City Life) The Trouble With Bond : Die Another Day preview (for City Life) "You Talking to Me?!" : the perils of movie accents (for The Independent) NB: for film-festival reports, check out the "film festivals" section of the site
GUEST REVIEWS and FEATURES A Failure of Vision : A polemic by the Amber Collective Laurence Boyce on Killing Me Softly Christopher Errington on Veronica Guerin one anonymous reader's take on Kissing Jessica Stein Adam Maxwell on Dead or Alive, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Sheila Seacroft on Confidences Trop Intimes & Nathalie..., Father and Son, Hellboy, King Arthur, Touching the Void, Troy and Werckmeister Harmonies
'CONCEPT' REVIEWS American Splendor A Cock and Bull Story (aka Tristram Shandy : A Cock and Bull Story) Colossal Youth Un Chien Andalou Dog Star Man Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? Fight Club The Five Obstructions Gerry Intolerable Cruelty Last Days Notre Musique No Frank In Lumberton That Obscure Object of Desire Planet of the Apes Possession Process Ramblers Raise Your Voice Redacted Red Lights Rewind The Rules of Attraction The Shining Spellbound Touching the Void Wavelength
MISCELLANEOUS In Memoriam : Pauline Kael (2001) New Wave : Point Break (1991) Nobody's Goat : a Modesto/Lucas cutup (2005) Second Opinions : other critics worth reading (2000) Tedious 007 search : our two penn'orth (2005)
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