Red Riding An English TV trilogy of Northern noirs
by Graham Fuller
Peter Jackson
The director of The Lovely Bones talks adaptation and why he’s still a child at heart
by Gavin Smith
2000-2009: Best of the Decade
100 film culture luminaries from around the world have their say.
Plus: the Top Films, Filmmakers, and New Filmmakers of the “Aughts”
Final Cut 2009
Best Films of the Year Poll, 10-Best Lists, Movies That Mattered, Terra Incognita, The Year of the Women by Amy Taubin, and Tabula Rasa Films of 2009 by Kent Jones. Bonus: see the Top 50 released and Top 30 unreleased films of the 2009 and vote in our Readers’ Poll
Avatar & 3-D Is cinema ready for a quantum leap into the third dimension? James Cameron leads the charge
by Dave Kehr
Opening Shots News, Hot Property: Un lac, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die, Site Specifics: African Film Library, The Trivial Top 20®: The Best Films of 1999, Letters
Screenings A Prophet, Nine, The Art of the Steal, Fish Tank, and A Room and a Half. Plus, short takes on Ajami, Creation, Daybreakers, Lourdes, Mine, and Sweetgrass Readings Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America and more
Home Movies The latest DVD and on-demand releases
COMING IN MARCH/APRIL 2010
Cover Story: Green Zone – interview with Paul Greengrass
Profile of Please Give director Nicole Holofcener Bluebeard director Catherine Breillat interviewed by Amy Taubin
Gary Indiana on the late Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid
Scott Foundas on Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg
Thom Andersen on Dusty and Sweets McGee
Best Avant-Garde and Documentaries of the Decade Polls City of Life and Death
Best Films of 2009 Readers’ Poll
Robin Wood remembered
Annual Grosses Gloss I Killed My Mother
Olaf’s World: Cyrus Frisch
Bong Joon-ho’s Mother I Love You Phillip Morris
Festivals: Sundance & Rotterdam
