DEPARTMENTS
Editor’s Notebook: Cristi Puiu Discusses Aurora
Rob White
Marx and Coca-Cola: An American Video
Joshua Clover
New York Notebook: Pesos, Paparazzo, Pastry, Painting
William Johnson
Screenings: At the Edge of History
Paul Julian Smith
Second Time Around: In Memoriam: The French Hitchcock
D. A. Miller
Bedsit Cinema: Amnesias of Murder: Mother
Nataša Ďurovičová and Garrett Stewart
Festival Notebook: Wroclaw, Reykjavik
Edward Lawrenson
London Notebook: Disaster Movies
Alberto Toscano
Encounter: Interview with Olivier Assayas
Rob White
Intertitles: Cahiers jaunes
Paul Thomas
TALKING POINTS
Oshima Revisited
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
The Art of Distribution
Lucas Hilderbrand
Near Dark: An Appreciation
Leo Braudy
FEATURES
Undoing Violence: Politics, Genre, and Duration in Kathryn Bigelow’s Cinema
Caetlin Benson-Allott
Ghost of the Fields: An Interview with Patrick Keiller
Nina Power
Avant-Doc: Eight Intersections
Scott MacDonald
Visionary Television: World on a Wire and Artemis 81
Mark Fisher
BOOK REVIEWS
Cover photo: Kathryn Bigelow during the filming of The Hurt Locker. Courtesy of Summit Entertainment.
Director Kathryn Bigelow shepherded the film through each showing giving interviews every step of the way. Bigelow May 2009 when the film played at the Seattle International Film Festival.