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Tom Sutpen
in issue 57
Close to Home: The Films of Su Friedrich on DVD — Autobiography sometimes trumps art in these uneven works
in issue 55
The Reckless Art of Erich von Stroheim: Part One: The Pinnacle — "Like every other skilled fabulist on earth there would forever be a part of Stroheim that truly believed his own fantasies."
in issue 54
Cultural Equity: On the Documentary Lomax the Songhunter — "Every smallest branch of the human family at one time or another has carved its dreams out of the rock on which it has lived." (Alan Lomax)
Just Another Guy on the Lost Highway: Revisiting Two-Lane Blacktop — "It's not some metaphorical struggle between two mighty kings of the road. It's more like a self-deceiving ritual carried out by two of its prisoners."
in issue 52
Great Scott! Herzog Profiles God's Angry Man — On the madness of Dr. Gene
in issue 51
Auteur in Distress: On Wallace Beery, von Sternberg, and Sergeant Madden
Cinema's supreme pictorialist surrenders to "the cop on the beat"
Buried Alive: On Frederick Wiseman's Juvenile Court
"The great legal scholar Lenny Bruce once observed that
in the halls of justice the only justice is in the halls . . ."
in issue 50
Far from the Madding Multiplex: The Subtle Horror of The Innocents
Watkins' savaging of commodified culture remains disturbingly relevant
The Nixon of Our Dreams? On Robert Altman's Secret Honor
We loved him, we loved him not
in issue 49
Distribute This! Privilege (Peter Watkins, 1967, Great Britain)
Watkins' savaging of commodified culture remains disturbingly relevant
in issue 48
Distribute This! Blast of Silence (Allen Baron, 1961, U.S.A.)
This missing noir masterpiece enters the canon in first place
Dancing and Dirging with Jason: On Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason
"Going on stage would've been awfully redundant"
Class Dismissed: Revisiting Losey and Pinter's misunderstood
masterpiece, The Servant
They also serve who only stand and annihilate
