Film Comment Current Issue Terra Incognita Distributor Wanted Play It As It Lays Black Snake Moan Review Online Exclusives Art and Industry Archive Film Comment Selects Subscribe Buy Back Issues Advertising Distribution Indexes Contact Us   January/February 2007 FEATURES Letters from Iwo Jima & Flags of Our Fathers Eastwood’s matching war memorials by Kent Jones Jackie Earle Haley A Seventies youth icon returns to the screen by Thomas Beller Children of Men Alfonso Cuarón’s near-future dystopian road movie by Jonathan Romney Final Cut 2006 The Best Films of the Year Poll, Movies That Mattered, Terra Incognita, Industry by Roger Smith, When the Levees Broke by Amy Taubin Guillermo del Toro Finding the way through Pan's Labyrinth by Michael Atkinson Inland Empire & Southland Tales David Lynch, Richard Kelly, and the shape of cinema to come by Amy Taubin Claude Chabrol The protean career of France's prolific crime devotee by Richard Combs DEPARTMENTS Encore Frank Perry’s Play It As It Lays by Melissa Anderson Art of the Real Paul Arthur on short docs Olaf’s World Russia’s Cine Fantom returns Festivals Vancouver & Turin Brief Encounters Ken Loach interviewed by Harlan Jacobson Opening Shots News, Guy Maddin’s Jolly Corner, Bong Joon-ho’s Guilty Pleasures, Alex Cox’s Flashback, and Distributor Wanted: Summer Palace by Chris Chang Sound & Vision Jack Nitzsche & Christian Jankowski Screenings Avenue Montaigne, Bamako, Black Snake Moan, and The Lives of Others Readings Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination and more Home Movies The latest DVD releases COMING IN MARCH/APRIL 2007 Diane Keaton by Graham Fuller Black Book and the return of Paul Verhoeven by Nathan Lee Carlos Saura by Manuel Yáñez Murillo The 32nd annual box-office rundown Japanese anime maker Satoshi Kon by Tom Mes A personal reflection on Straub-Huillet by Jean-Pierre Gorin Readers’ Poll Results: The Best Films of 2006 And much more...

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