Film Comment Current Issue Eddie Coyle Stalking Moon Hot Property Site Specifics Satyajit Ray Summer Hours Guy and Madeline Online Exclusives Archive Film Comment Selects Subscribe Buy Back Issues Advertising Distribution Indexes Contact Us   March/April 2009 FEATURES Hunger An uncompromising vision of brute force and unconquerable will from artist Steve McQueen by Graham Fuller The Stalking Moon The late Robert Mulligan’s undervalued career hit a peak with this brooding Western by Kent Jones 24 City Jia Zhangke on chasing down the modern realities of China by Andrew Chan Bonus: read the online-only uncut conversation between Chan and Jia Satyajit Ray India’s greatest auteur defined his country for a generation of filmgoers by Nicolas Rapold Tom Hanks America’s favorite Everyman makes it all look easy by Richard Schickel Bonus: read an interview with Hanks, from the March/April 1989 issue Adventureland A personal take on post-college doldrums from the director of Superbad by Mark Olsen Grosses Gloss Our 2008 box-office survey strikes a hopeful note—or does it? Treeless Mountain So Yong Kim takes us into the private world of two neglected children by Kristin M. Jones Paradise Moving-image notebook? Essay film? Michael Almereyda discusses his latest cinematic hybrid by Jonathan Lethem DEPARTMENTS Encore Geoffrey O’Brien on The Friends of Eddie Coyle Journal Elisabeth Lequeret reports from Paris Opening Shots News, Hot Property: Louise-Michel, Alex Cox’s 1,000 Ways to Die, Site Specifics: indieWIRE & The Daily@IFC.com, The Trivial Top 20®, Letters First Look Amy Taubin on Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, a new indie discovery by director Damien Chazelle Festivals Sundance and Rotterdam Sound & Vision Andy Warhol and Dan Graham Screenings Summer Hours, I Love You, Man, Sugar, Tokyo Sonata, and Julia Plus, short reviews of The Education of Charlie Banks, Every Little Step, Goodbye Solo, Sin Nombre, Tokyo!, and 12 Readings The Night of the Hunter: A Biography of a Film by Jeffrey Couchman Home Movies The latest DVD releases COMING IN MAY/JUNE 2009 German cinema and terrorism: The Baader-Meinhoff Complex Oliver Sacks on A Matter of Life and Death Chris Petit on lost cinema, post-cinema & post-traumatic cinema Alberto Serra by Manuel Yáñez Murillo Olaf Möller on the Berlin Film Festival Roger Corman’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre by Richard Combs Tony Rayns on Japanese Academy Award–winner Departures Phillip Lopate on changing his mind about movies, with anecdotes by Richard Schickel, Amy Taubin, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kent Jones, Molly Haskell, and Nathan Lee

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