Film Comment. May/June 05.

"Where do we stand with Michael Powell - allowing room somewhere inside that question for his partner, and crazy-mirror reflection, Emeric Pressburger?" asks Richard Combs in the new issue of Film Comment. "Fixing Powell's position has now become a major critical enterprise, starting slowly in the mid-Sixties and turning into an industry from the Seventies onwards, in which P & P were discovered and discovered again, as if their hiddenness could never be quite overcome." Dipping deeply into Powell's autobiography, A Life in Movies, Combs nudges the enterprise a tad forward yet again.

Another revisitation, this one from Kent Jones: "If you received The American Cinema at the right moment in your life, and many people including myself did, it came with the force of a divination, a cinematic Great Awakening." This is a highly personal appreciation of Andrew Sarris and we can be glad FC is running the full "author's cut," so to say, online.

Another online exclusive: Two interviews with Jean Rouch, both from the Fall/Winter 1967 issue: Jacqueline Veuve and James Blue.

And yet two more: Grady Hendrix interviews Johnnie To and Kristin M Jones reviews Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love.

Then there's Chris Chang on We Jam Econo and Amy Taubin's shout-out to distributors: Pick up Claire Denis's The Intruder!

Posted by dwhudson at May 13, 2005 12:32 AM