Film International #37



Contents Film International #37


Editorial
by Daniel Lindvall

McMafia Rising
by Rajko Radovic

Last Year at Mansfield: William E. Jones's Tearoom
by Jim Supanick

Death of the Strong Silent Type: The Achievement of Brokeback Mountain
by Christopher Sharrett

A Cinema of Parallel Worlds: Lynch & Kieslowski + Inland Empire
by John Orr

Performative Radicalism in Contemporary Canadian Documentary Film
by William Anselmi and Sheena Wilson

(Introduction to Capra Award Winner) Faculty Perspective
by Kevin Hagopian

(Introduction to Capra Award Winner) Judge's Perspective
by Katherine Spring

Deep Cuts (Capra Award Winner)
by Benjamin Ogrodnik

Film Happenings
by Liza Palmer

DVD Reviews:
Les maitres du temps (Daniel O'Brien), Gandahar (Daniel O'Brien)

Book Reviews:
Imagining Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster and Art (Roberta Di Carmine), Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (Sunil Manghani), Hitchcock's Music (Ronald H. Sadoff)

Film Reviews:
Burn After Reading (Erica Rowell)

Festival Reports: Toronto International Film Festival 2008 (Barry Keith Grant), Cultural Potential and the Cause of the Auteur: A Report on the Tribute to Todd Haynes, Sarajevo International Film Festival 2008 (Gabriel M. Paletz), San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2008 (Kristen Anderson Wagner), The 2008 Jeonju International Film Festival (Nikki J.Y. Lee), Chantal Akerman, Camden Arts Centre, London (Deirdre Devers)