CINEASTE, VOLUME 36, ISSUE 3, SUMMER 2011

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ARTICLES
Documentary Cinema and Reality Hunger by Richard Porton
The blurring of fiction and nonfiction in The Arbor, Self Made, Le quattro volte, and El Sicario Room 164, among others, is a challenge to the traditional form, but the loosening of boundaries is also an opportunity to engage audiences weary of the stale conventions of both documentaries and feature films.
The Never-Ending Story:
Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished by Stuart Liebman
An important new historical documentary about Nazi-filmed footage of the Warsaw Ghetto is nevertheless compromised by artsy intrusions that place sentiment above much-needed context about these troubling images. Five Evenings with Nikita Mikhalkov by Louis Menashe
Watching the director's films in a DVD box set over successive evenings gave the author perspective on the talented but often perplexing filmmaker of Burnt by the Sun, revealing a humanism that has given way, professionally and politically, to bombast.
Japan's Nuclear Nightmare:
How the Bomb Became a Beast Called Godzilla by Peter H. Brothers
Japan's biggest export has an origins story rooted in World War II and nuclear cataclysm, with continuing relevance today. Usually regarded as a camp cultural icon, there's more to this monster than meets the eye. INTERVIEWS
Of Chimps and Humans:
An Interview with James Marsh by Cynthia Lucia and Dan Lybarger An experiment in the Seventies to teach a chimp language initiates a dialog about the complex and unsettling relationships between the animal and human worlds, in Project Nim, from the director of Man on Wire.
Ad Astra per Aspera:
An Interview with Patricio Guzman by Haden Guest and Eduardo Ledesma The documentarian behind The Battle of Chile look his cameras deep into Chile's Atacama Desert for Nostalgia for the Light, where he found that the country's recent political turmoil coexists with its ancient past.
Rewriting Fairy Tales, Revisiting Female Identity: An Interview with Catherine Breillat by Maria Garcia The controversial French filmmaker is very much awake to the dramatic possibilities
of fairy tales, as she settles on The Sleeping Beauty for the second part of a trilogy that focuses on girls striving toward their own identity.
Cinema Can Open Windows:
An Interview with Bertrand Tavernier by John Esther For The Princess of Montpensier the director delved into French politics and society circa 1562, where the customs differ but the parallels to today are readily apparent
FILM REVIEWS
Carancho
Reviewed by Matt Losada
Aurora
Reviewed by Monica Filimon
The Princess of Montpensier
Reviewed by Joan M. West
In a Better World
Reviewed by Robert Sklar
Nostalgia for the Light
Reviewed by Dennis West
DVD REVIEWS
Senso
Reviewed by Catherine Russell
Still Walking
Reviewed by R. Kurt Osenlund
The Clowns
Reviewed by Michael Joshua Rowin
Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss
Reviewed by Royal S. Brown
Meet John Doe
Reviewed by Leonard Quart
Staff Recommendations:
Cronos, Le Grand jeu, Mutum, Stars, and Topsy-Turvy Reviewed by Cineaste Editors
BOOK REVIEWS
Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s
Reviewed by Christoph Huber
Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture
Reviewed by Andrew Schenker
They Live
Reviewed by Adam Nayman
Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Sexploitation
Reviewed by Steve Ryfle
Frederick Wiseman
Reviewed by John Semley
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