COLUMNS
THE SUPER EIGHT
FESTS
Rotterdam and Berlin by Noah Cowan; Sundance by Peter Bowen; Sarajevo by Scott Macaulay; SxSW by Josh Zeman; International Festival of Latin America Cinema by Laura Kern; and Hollywood Black Film Festival by Moira Griffin.
BACK PAGE
Cinematographer Teodoro Maniaci.
BOOKS
The Director’s Vision, Projections 10and Celluloid Mavericks.
WARES
Movie Magic scheduling and budgeting software by Robin O’Hara.
DVDs
Martin Südderman on Two-Lane Blacktop, Possession, Liquid Sky and Coming Out.
REPORTS
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Tristan Patterson on Mike Mills’s Architecture of Reassurance.
SEND IN THE CLOWNS • ONLY CONNECT
Julian P. Hobbs’s killer doc Collectors, and Scott Saunders’s digital This Close to Nothing.
FLOATERS • CUT RATE • DUE SOUTH
Michael Benson’s Zero, New York City’s Edit Center, and Richard Shepard’s Mexico City.
GLAMAZON • SPACE INVADER
Charles Atlas’s Fairy Contrary, and Andrew Horn’s The Nomi Song.
DRAWING CLASS • TEN
Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World, and the Los Angeles County Museum’s "Artificial Humans" film series.
PINS & NEEDLES
Miike Takashi’s Audition.
SIAMESE SPIN
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Mysterious Object at Noon.
KOREAN VICE
Lee Myung-Se’s Nowhere to Hide.
IFP RANT
James Schamus’s IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards keynote speech.
SOUVENIRS
Tom Kalin’s video cycle "Third Known Nest."
MI FAMILIA
Laurie Collyer’s Nuyorican Dream.
STAR TURN
The Big Kuhuna’s Peter Facinelli.
HOOP DREAM
Moira Griffin on Love & Basketball’s Sanaa Lathan.
SIBLINGS
Lisa Krueger’s Committed.
DEATH OF THE DIRECTOR
Scott Macaulay ponders the shrinking role of the auteur in independent film.
MÉNAGE À TROIS
Buddy Boy’s Emmanuelle Seigner; Stan Schwartz on Maybe’s Romain Duris; Solveig Anspach’s Chin Up!.
