Tribute: Remembering Ernest "Chick" Callenbach

Ann Martin and Rob White


Marx and Coca-Cola: Enjoy the Silents

Joshua Clover


Screenings: Scare Quotes

Paul Julian Smith


Platforming: Dangerous Illusions

Caetlin Benson-Allott


Second Time Around: Medea

D. A. Miller


Encounter: Interview with Manuel Alberto Claro

Rob White


New York Notebook: Lucian Pintilie: Romania in Focus

Megan Ratner


Histories: Tied Up by Bunuel

Edward Buscombe


Intertitles: Goodbye to All That?

Paul Thomas


FEATURES


Comedy of Abandon: Lars von Trier's Melancholia

Marta Figlerowicz


Precarious Dystopias: The Hunger Games, In Time, and Never Let Me Go

Mark Fisher


Film Acting and the Arts of Imitation

James Naremore


Information Managers: The Andromeda Strain and The Man Who Fell to Earth

J. M. Tyree


Several Sides of Errol Morris

Kris Fallon


BOOK REVIEWS


Film: A Very Short Introduction, by Michael Wood

reviewed by David Sterritt


Cover photo: From left: Manuel Alberto Claro, Kirsten Dunst, Lars von Trier, Alexander Skarsg?rd, and Charlotte Gainsbourg on the set of Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011). Photo by Christian Geisnaes. Courtesy of Zentropa Productions.

Once Upon A Time In Anatolia

Lola Montes

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

PLUS: The Interrupters... and more!

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Faith Akin

Dogtooth

Mysteries of Lisbon

Alexander Dovzhenko

PLUS: Berlin... and more!

FEATURES: A survey of Kathryn Bigelow's cinema; an interview with Patrick Keiller; a reflection on the links between documentary and avant-garde; and the visionary television shows World on a Wire and Artemis 81

READ: Cristi Puiu Discusses Aurora, At the Edge of History, London Notebook, and Interview with Olivier Assayas

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Notebook: Three Types of Nothing
Rob White

Marx and Coca-Cola: Remarks on Method
Joshua Clover

New York Notebook: Pathways and Detours
William Johnson

Screenings: Students of Genre
Paul Julian Smith

Talking Point: The Trouble with Perfume
Ben Walters

Austin Notebook: South by Southwest, 2010
Jonathan Rosenbaum

Berlin Notebook: Anniversary Blues
Edward Lawrenson

Berlin Notebook: Vorschneider in Focus
Brigitta B. Wagner

Reconsideration: Vertov's World
Nina Power

Reconsideration: Un-Dimensional Man: Dillinger is Dead
Evan Calder Williams

Intertitles: Her Fine Soft Flesh
Paul Thomas

FEATURES

Films of the Year, 2009
James Naremore

No Fun: Debunking the 1960s in Mad Men and A Serious Man
J. M. Tyree

Pre-War Trauma: Haneke's The White Ribbon
Garrett Stewart

Aberrations of Beauty: Violence and Cinematic Resistance in Haneke's The White Ribbon
James S. Williams

BOOK REVIEWS

- Sex, Politics, Montage: Makavejev Revisited

- Broken Embraces

- Sweetgrass

- Filming Indonesia: Leonard Retel Helmrich

COLUMNS

Editor's Notebook: Fugitive Faces

Rob White

Marx and Coca-Cola: Allegory Bomb

Joshua Clover

New York Notebook: Going Offbeat

William Johnson

Second Time Around: The H-Man vs. Liquid Human

D.A. Miller

Talking Point: Debating Inglourious Basterds

Ben Walters

Manhattan Notebook: Uneasy Dreams

Paul Julian Smith

Encounter: Interview with Pedro Costa

James Hansen

Telluride Notebook: Hotel Colorado

Damon Young

Bedsit Cinema: The Baader Meinhof Complex

Christina Gerhardt

Nonfictions: Catcalling

Mark Sinker

Reconsideration: Le Plaisir: "La Maison Tellier"

V. F. Perkins

Intertitles: Runaways

Paul Thomas

ARTICLES

Why Do Some Images Begin to Tremble? Cinema Revisits Militant Politics

Nina Power

Warm-Blooded: True Blood and Let the Right One In

J.M. Tyree

A Subtle Story: 35 Shots of Rum

Yvette Biro

Romancing the Father in Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum

James S. Williams

BOOK REVIEWS

COLUMNS


Editor's Notebook: Against Nature

Rob White



Marx and Coca-Cola: The Future in Labor

Joshua Clover



New York Notebook: Surviving

Danny Birchall


Talking Point: The Avant-Garde Archive Online

Danny Birchall



Reconsideration: Le Plaisir: "The Mask" and "The Model"

V. F. Perkins



Cannes Notebook: A Very Good Year

Colin MacCabe


San Francisco Notebook: Work Aesthetic

Lalitha Gopalan


Intertitles: Listing to Starboard

Paul Thomas


ARTICLES


Rohmer's Salon

Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit


A Handful of World: The Films of Peter Thompson--An Introduction and Interview

Jonathan Rosenbaum


Imamura Revisited

Donald Richie


Bulldozers, Bibles, and Very Sharp Knives: The Chinese Independent Documentary Scene

Abe Mark Nornes


L.A.'s Hipster Cinema

David E. James


BOOK REVIEWS