March/April 2005

$2.00

Cover: Dustin Hoffman by Chris Norris

Features:
Lucrecia Martel’s The Holy Girl by Kent Jones
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows by Chuck Stephens<
John Cassavetes’s Johnny Stacatto by J. Hoberman
Bulle Ogier by Gary Indiana
Amitabh Bachchan by David Chute
30th annual Grosses Gloss by Donald Wilson and Ira Deutchman

Distributor Wanted: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Café Lumière by Amy Taubin

Guy Maddin’s Jolly Corner: Mitchell Leisen’s 1939 Romcom Midnight

Guilty Pleasures by Simon Pegg & Nick Frost

Reader’s Best Films of 2004 Poll

Fade Out: Elliot Schulman and Susan Sontag by Joanne Koch

First Look: Chris Marker’s The Case of the Grinning Cat by Chris Darke

Sound & Vision: Su-Mei Tse’s Echo by Chris Chang & Paul Pfeiffer’s Empire by Nathan Lee

Festivals: Sundance by Amy Taubin, Rachel Rosen, Alice Lovejoy, and Gavin Smith; Rotterdam by Chuck Stephens and Olaf Möller

Olaf’s World: Brazilian director Rogério Sganzerla by Olaf Möller

Screenings: Gunner Palace by Paul Arthur, Melinda and Melinda by Nathan Lee, Kung Fu Hustle by Sam Ho, Save the Green Planet by Chuck Stephens

Readings: Thom Andresen on David Thomson’s The Whole Equation

Home Movies: L’Eclisse by Gavin Smith