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ARTICLES Sins of the Father: Politics and Patriarchs in the Cinema of Leos Carax by Darragh O’Donoghue Both Good and Bad Fathers figure throughout the short filmography of French filmmaker Leos Carax, movies shown to be largely autobiographical in nature. 10 Everything or Nothing: The Cuban Revolution’s Censorship of Cinema by Matthew David Roe Miguel Coyula Aquino’s new documentary Chronicles of the Absurd testifies to the endless problems faced by Cuba’s filmmakers, dating from the Revolution’s earliest days, laboring under the smoke and mirrors of the government’s ideological dictates. 19 Masahiro Shinoda: At the Vanguard of the New and the Old by Adam Bingham With films like Demon Pond, which are not easily characterized, the director’s contributions to Japanese cinema have received less recognition but a reassessment is underway. 30 The Great Might-Have-Been of the French New Wave by Mitchell Abidor Anarchic, occasionally brilliant…and forgotten. However undisciplined the talent and uneven the results, Jacques Rozier, the last of his generation, deserves reconsideration. 37 INTERVIEWS All We Imagine as Light: An Interview with Payal Kapadia by Graham Fuller Directing her first fiction feature film encouraged the filmmaker to innovate for her story about three nurses within an expansive vision of Mumbai transpiring largely after dark. 4 Histories of French Cinema’s Moving Body: An Interview with Denis Lavant by Arta Barzanji It’s Not Me returns the performer to his collaboration with Leos Carax and their mutual creation, Monsieur Merde, the monstrous character introduced in Tokyo! 16 Meeting with Pol Pot: An Interview with Rithy Panh by Clarence Tsui Turning to fiction filmmaking, the documentarian imagines Meeting with Pol Pot, based on the true story of Western journalists seduced by the genocidal dictator’s propaganda. 26 La Cocina and the American Dream: An Interview with Alonso Ruizpalacios by Paul Risker No reservations required as the filmmaker takes us inside a busy Times Square restaurant, staffed largely by undocumented immigrants dealing with work and personal anxieties. 34 Mapping a Cinematic Grand Tour through Asia: An Interview with Miguel Gomes by Shahnaz Mahmud The director of Grand Tour, which combines period piece and Rom-Com elements, and who filmed throughout Asia, decided that his film would not use narrative conventions. 42 NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE AT WWW.CINEASTE.COM Article: Around The Clock: On an Overnight at MoMA by Will DiGravio. Film Review: Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain reviewed by Graham Fuller. Book Review: Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood’s Master of the Macabre reviewed by Mitchell Abidor and Chris Marker: Early Film Writings reviewed by Nadine Boljkovac. Cover: Zoe Saldaña in Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.
FILM REVIEWS Emilia Pérez Reviewed by Karen Backstein ....................45 Vermiglio Reviewed by Matthew Evangelista.............47 Witches Reviewed by Megan Feeney ........................49 Eureka Reviewed by Robert Koehler .......................51 Babygirl Reviewed by Mary F. Corey .......................53 Separated Reviewed by Charles Musser ......................55
HOME VIDEO REVIEWS Pandora’s Box Reviewed by Thomas Doherty ...................58 Scarface Reviewed by David Sterritt .........................60 Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger Reviewed by Jonathan Murray ..................62 The Long Good Friday Reviewed by Michael Sandlin.....................64 Enough Rope Reviewed by Matthew Hays ......................66 Paper Moon Reviewed by Christopher Bray ..................67 Staff Recommendations: Burn, Witch, Burn, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The Eichmann Trial, The Hop-Pickers, and The Valley of the Bees Reviewed by Cineaste Editors ....................69
BOOK REVIEWS Hard to Watch: How to Fall in Love with Difficult Movies Reviewed by Catherine Russell ..................70 Elmer Bernstein, Film Composer: An Authorized Biography Reviewed by Robert Cashill .......................71 Still Film Crazy (After All These Years): Collected Interviews Reviewed by Phillip Lopate ........................73 George Cukor’s People: Acting for a Master Director Reviewed by David Sterritt .....................74 From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary Reviewed by Karen Backstein ....................75 Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director’s Chair Reviewed by Kurt Brokaw ..........................76 Book Brief Reviews ..............................78
DEPARTMENTS Editorial ..............................................1 Letters ........................................................3 Contributors ............................................57 Short Takes: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, A Photographic Memory, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Sugarcane, Zurawski v Texas........80
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