FILMMAKER SPRING 2005 VOLUME 13, NUMBER 3

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features 38 CHILD AT HEART

Author Rick Moody talks with Miranda July about her Sundance-award-winning debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know. PLUS: Scott Macaulay on how Me and You went from script submission to theaters in under two years. 48 THE WONDER YEARS

After a six-year hiatus, Gregg Araki returns to feature filmmaking with Mysterious Skin, a haunting story about childhood sexual abuse. Peter Bowen reports. Plus: Cam Archer talks with stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet.

54 THE DIVIDED SELF

For his new film, Palindromes, Todd Solondz cast eight actors in the lead role and then took on both sides of the abortion movement. By Matthew Ross.

58 HOOKED ON A FEELING

Steve Gallagher speaks with Andrew Bujalski, writer-director of Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation. 60 TEARS OF EROS

Christophe Honoré’s Ma Mère is the latest film in a new wave of sociosexual cinema adapted from the writing of Georges Bataille. By Andrew Repasky McElhinny.

62 POWER SURGE

Alex Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, based on investigative journalist Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind’s non-fiction book, is a smart, spirited and essential chronicle of America’s largest white collar crime. Scott Macaulay reports.

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line items 68 ACTIVE DUTY

Following the 2004 elections, some filmmakers are diverting their attention towards hands-on activism. By Reed Martin. PLUS: Filmmaker Fisher Stevens on his work with Bring Ohio Back.

72 TRAIN SPOTTING

Filmmaker Jem Cohen reflects on political moviemaking and his brush with Homeland Security.

76 MAKING THE DAY

Four cinematographers discuss some on-set challenges and how they dealt with them.

78 THE SWEET SOUND OF

SUCCESS Alan Jacobson speaks with director Rusty Nails about securing music for no-budget films.

COVER: Director Miranda July, photographed by Autumn de Wilde.

FILMMAKER SPRING 2005