Cinema Scope. 36.

As editor Mark Peranson notes, the new issue of Cinema Scope is dedicated to Manny Farber, "the most important film critic of the 20th century," and features an appreciation by none other than Jean-Pierre Gorin.

Peranson's also recently completed, as in directed and produced, Waiting for Sancho, "a kind of experimental 'making of' the critically acclaimed El Cant dels Ocells (Birdsong/Le Chant des Oiseaux)," and the site's got a page with two paragraphs and a clip.

Other features: Jason Anderson on "Blindness and blindness" and Christoph Huber on "the melancholy mastery of Jean-Claude Van Damme."

Interviews: Violeta Kovacsics and Adam Nayman talk with Lisandro Alonso about Liverpool and Robert Koehler talks with Azazel Jacobs about Momma's Man.

Also: Scott Foundas on Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, Quintin on Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles, Richard Porton on Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, another round of "Global Discoveries on DVD" from Jonathan Rosenbaum and Jim Finn on why some of "the best festivals for films that opened up new, contemporary ideas of what cinema could be" are dying.

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