CONTENDERS

Girlfight’s Karyn Kusama and Shadow Boxers’s Katya Bankowsky discuss the boxing film with Peter Bowen. Plus, d.p.s on shooting the fight scene.

EXQUISITE CORPSES

Scooter McCrae interviews The American Nightmare director Adam Simon about the Golden Age of American horror movies. Plus, McCrae’s list of great unknown fright films; the poster art of Mexican fantasy and horror films; and independent directors on their favorite horror classics.

WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD?

Writer J. T. Leroy phones up Cecil B. DeMented’s John Waters.

FRANÇOIS AND HIS FRIENDS

Peter Bowen on the shifting cinematic styles of François Ozon.

PLEASEBUYMYFILM.COM

Jessica Santana on new e-commerce film market sites.

25 NEW FACES OF INDEPENDENT FILM

Filmmaker spotlights a fresh collection of emerging talent.

A MOST EXCELLENT MADNESS

Ray Pride sits down with Fever’s Alex Winter.

THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL

Scott Macaulay discusses the horror of Requiem for a Dream with director Darren Aronofsky.

UNSOLVED MYSTERIES

Travis Crawford on the philosophical genre play of rising international auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

CITY OF NIGHT

Peter Bowen talks with Urbania’s Jon Shear.

LONESOME COWBOY

Filmmaker Lisa Gossels speaks to Aiyana Elliott about her doc, The Ballad of Ramblin’ Jack.

RAISING THE BAR

Adam Pincus talks with filmmaking sophisticate Raymond DeFelitta.

FIREMAN’S BALL

Arnold Salas interviews Just One Time’s Lane Janger.

THE SUPER EIGHT

DVDs

Arnold Salas on Dario Argento’s cult horror rereleases.

FESTS

Cannes by Noah Cowan; New York Latino by Arnold Salas; Oberhausen by Wellington Love; Seattle by Brandon Judell; Florida by Mary Glucksman.

BACK PAGE

Nikola Tesla in Colorado.

BOOKS

Taxi Driver, Getting Away With It.

WARES

UNPROCESSED

Ray Pride on the digital photography of Natacha Merritt.

GROUND CONTROL

Patrick Stettner’s The Business of Strangers.

DEPTH OF FIELD

The photographs of Abbas Kiarostami.

SOUTH OF THE BORDER

Les Bernstien’s Night Train.

THE GIRl GETS AROUND

Amy Talkington’s The New Arrival.

RUSSIAN ROULETTE

Deborah Twiss and Todd Morris’s Molotov Samba.

GAME OVER

Dan Minahan’s feature Series 7.

DOWN AND DIRTY

Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher.

ALL THAT TAHOE ALLOWS

On the set of Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s The Deep End.

WHAT I REALLY WANT TO DO…

Tristan Patterson on the InDigEnt film slate.

LOST AND FOUND

Emily Golembiewski on the films of Jay Rosenblatt.

THE BEAT GOES ON

Jean-Michel Basquiat is resurrected in Downtown 81.