Film Comment Current Issue Peter Whitehead Cannes + Distributor Wanted Clerks II Review Online Exclusives Art and Industry Archive Film Comment Selects Subscribe Buy Back Issues Advertising Distribution Indexes Contact Us   July/August 2006 FEATURES Richard Linklater A Scanner Darkly and Fast Food Nation: two sides of the American nightmare by Gavin Smith Read Part Two of the interview with Richard Linklater here. Peter Whitehead A cinema-vérité misfit from the Sixties British underground by Henry K. Miller Hou Hsiao-hsien Rescuing the Taiwanese auteur from his good reputation by Howard Hampton On (not) watching horror Looking awry at The Descent and Isolation by Vivian Sobchack João Pedro Rodrigues On the prowl with Portugal’s gay cinematic renegade by Nathan Lee DEPARTMENTS Encore John Ford’s The Prisoner of Shark Island by Kent Jones Art of the Real First-person docs by Paul Arthur Opening Shots News, Distributor Wanted:Illumination, Alex Cox’s Flashback, Guilty Pleasures, and Letters Olaf's World Romuald Karmakar Festivals Cannes (read an extended version of Kent Jones’s coverage here) & Tribeca Sound & Vision Satyajit Ray & Godard at the Pompidou Center The Bottom Line The art-house crisis Screenings The Devil Wears Prada, Gabrielle, Clerks II, and Half Nelson Readings Donald Cammell: A Life on the Wild Side and more Home Movies The latest DVD releases COMING IN SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2006 Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette The Film Canon According to Paul Schrader Dave Kehr on indie director Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi reviews the movie reviewers And much more...

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