The Guardian Rouben Mamoulian, the natural born cineaste: A consistent innovator, Mamoulian was one of the first directors to rise to the challenges of sound and colour.

Undercurrent The Durability of Filmmaking in a Temporary Country.

Offscreen The Face of Quatermass: National Identity in British Science-Fiction.

Screening the Past Against the Flow of Time: Michael Mann and Edward Hopper.

Rouge Mitchell Leisen.

Sight & Sound Who needs critics? and Critics on Critics.

Cineaste Mr. Freedom: An Interview with William Klein.

Cineuropa Interview with Thomas Vinterberg.

The Boston Phoenix Brief Fling: Carole Lombard’s nine years of stardom.

Cinema-Scope Time and the Hour: For the Melancholy Mastery of Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Film-Philosophy Towards a Theory of Film Worlds (pdf).

Filmmaker Mood Swings: An interview with Mike Leigh.

Filmmaker 25 New Faces of Independent Film: Filmmaker's 10th annual survey of new talent.

Future Movies Shane Meadows talks Somers Town.

LA Weekly Manny Farber, 1917-2008: Critic's passing leaves a Space.

MovieMaker Giuseppe Tornatore Dives Into the Great Unknown.

Sight & Sound Dream Tickets: The once hugely popular double bill saw unlikely pairings throwing new light upon one another. Now a selection of experts pick their perfect twosomes that are more than the sum of their parts (PDF File).

LA Weekly Richard Quine: Dying is Easy. A journalist recalls his fateful encounter with Hollywood's most tragic comedy director.

Village Voice On the Eve of Their Momma's Man Opening, Jacobs Father and Son Talk Shop and Family: The films of Azazel Jacobs are on the offbeat end of the cinema spectrum.

Bright Lights Film Journal Paradise Betrayed: Talking with Terence Davies about Of Time and the City.

Bright Lights Film Journal A Quiet Storm: Charles Burnett on Namibia and His Post-Killer of Sheep Career.

Sight & Sound Cannes 2008: A royal rumpus.

Filmmaker Moral Burdens: Interview with Fatih Akin.

GreenCine Tell No One: Guillaume Canet and Harlan Coben.

The Boston Phoenix The awful truth: Leo McCarey was better in the ’30s.

Cineaste The Cinema of Identification Gets on my Nerves: An Interview with Christian Petzold.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog interview, Encounters at the End of the World.

GreenCine Interview: Olivier Assayas's "Archetypally Modern Drama".

Filmmaker They Shoot Pictures Don't They?: Famed documentarian Errol Morris dissects what we saw (and didn‘t see) in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse photos in Standard Operating Procedure.

The Guardian 'The bloodshed had to be shown': At 80, Andrzej Wajda has made the bravest film of his career: a graphic account of the killing of 8,000 Polish officers.

Time Out Mike Leigh's London locations.

Sight & Sound French Cinema Now: French Exceptions.

Sight & Sound Mizoguchi Kenji: Artist Of The Floating World.

indieWIRE Profile: "My Blueberry Nights" Director Wong Kar-Wai.

Senses of Cinema Nina Menkes: The Warrior and her Jiang Hu.

Cinema-Scope Trainspotting with James Benning.

Bright Lights Film Journal Peter Watkins and the Politics of Expression.

The Boston Phoenix Separate Ways: Ritwik Ghatak at the Harvard Film Archive.

Cineaste Contemplating Status and Morality in Cassandra's Dream: An Interview with Woody Allen.

Cineuropa Interview with Carlos Saura.

Sight & Sound Brothers in Harm: Veteran director Sidney Lumet is back in the hot seat with a heist thriller Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

GreenCine Gregg Araki's Stoner Comedy.

The Guardian A camera instead of a rifle: Combining real and staged footage, Overlord is a remarkable account of D-Day. Director Stuart Cooper explains his debt to the film-makers who followed soldiers into battle.

indieWIRE Interview with 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days Director Cristian Mungiu.

Bright Lights Film Journal Beyond the Fifth Generation: An Interview with Zhang Yimou.

The Boston Phoenix Shohei Imamura: The Anti-Ozu.

Cinema-Scope Songs Sung Blue: The Films of Michael Robinson.

Filmmaker The Great Debater: Interview with Denzel Washington.

GreenCine John Sayles: "I Want My Characters to Be Like Your Friends."

The Guardian Down with the Kids: First there was Elephant, about the Columbine High School massacre, and now Gus van Sant has made Paranoid Park, about a young skateboarder.

Midnight Eye Interview with Koji Wakamatsu.

Rouge Pretending that life has no meaning: Interview with Paul Schrader.

Cineaste Avoiding Labels and Lullabies: An Interview with James Mangold.

GreenCine Charles Burnett Celebrates a Milestone.

The Observer Who does Bob think he is?: There are six - or is it seven? - 'Dylans' in Todd Haynes's I'm Not There. The director talks exclusively to Sean O'Hagan about the weirdest rock biopic ever.

indieWIRE Interview with Julian Schnabel, director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

IonCinema! Interview: Noah Baumbach - Margot at the Wedding.

MovieMaker Francis Ford Coppola: Exclusive Video Interview.

Reverse Shot Gus Van Sant Feature.

Village Voice Senegal's Son: For Ousmane Sembène, an icon of African cinema, the personal was always political.

Sight & Sound Robert Bresson: Alias Grace.

The Guardian 'Film-making is an adventure': Shekhar Kapur's film Elizabeth was a critical and commercial success that broke all the conventions of costume drama. Can he repeat the trick with its sequel?

IonCinema! NYFF Interview: Catherine Breillat.

LA Weekly An American Realist: Robert Redford and the façade of a nation.

Midnight Eye Paul Verhoeven Like It: Takashi Miike at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.

MovieMaker John Carpenter's Business of Insanity: With five remakes of his work in two years, John Carpenter is happily riding the Halloween gravy train.

Time Out Interview with Michael Haneke.

The Boston Phoenix Wes Anderson talks about India, Owen, and the short.

The Guardian 'Storytelling was his life's elixir': Crime reporter, screenwriter, soldier, director - Sam Fuller was a lot of things. But whatever he did, he was foremost a master yarn-spinner, his friend Wim Wenders remembers.

Film Comment Foreign Affairs: David Cronenberg talks about his strangely intimate new Russian mafia movie Eastern Promises and snuff films on the Internet.

Film International From Short Story to Film to Autobiography: Intermedial Variations in Ingmar Bergman's Writings and Films.

indieWIRE Interview with "Lust, Caution" Director Ang Lee.

IonCinema! Interview with Johnnie To (Exiled).

Sight & Sound A World Without Pity: A Mighty Heart, based on Mariane Pearl's memoir of the kidnap of her journalist husband Daniel, completes a trilogy of films by Michael Winterbottom that probe the post-9/11 world.

Cineaste Making Friends the Hard Way: An Interview with Patrice Leconte.

Cinema-Scope The Stubborn Utopian: The Films of Alexander Kluge.

Senses of Cinema "Me, I Just Film My Life": An Interview with Jonas Mekas. [ Jonas Mekas.com ]

Reverse Shot An Interview with Volker Schlöndorff.

Time Out Ken Loach interview.

Village Voice Scotland Bard: Bill Douglas filmed life as it was: hard, bleak, cruel.

Bright Lights Film Journal Silent Light or Absolute Miracle: An Interview with Carlos Reygadas at Cannes 2007.

Sight & Sound Love in the afternoon: D.H. Lawrence's iconic tale of unbridled passion has had many interpreters. But none has captured its title character's sensual awakening as effectively as Pascale Ferran in Lady Chatterley.

The Boston Phoenix Michelangelo Antonioni 1912-2007

Close-Up Film God’s Lonely Man: An Interview with Paul Schrader.

The Guardian Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007.

Cineuropa Interview with Jaco Van Dormael.

Film Comment Steve Buscemi Uncut: The indie poster boy’s Q&A with Harlan Jacobson in full.

Filmmaker Survivor: With Rescue Dawn director Werner Herzog returns to the jungle to adapt one of his most powerful documentaries, Little Dieter Needs to Fly.

GreenCine Philip Haas: Understanding the Situation.

IonCinema! Interview: Shane Meadows.

Kamera International man of mystery: David Lynch.

MovieMaker Henry Jaglom's Moment of Truth: Film's freest director dissects the Hollywood machine in Hollywood Dreams.

Sight & Sound Ken Russell: Sweet Swell of Excess.

Film Monthly Michael Bay Transforms Very Well.

Film-Philosophy (pdf) Hitchcock and Hume Revisited: Fear, Confusion and Stage Fright.

Filmmaker You Don’t Know Jack: In Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, Mary Jordan takes us into the mind of one of the forgotten geniuses from the 1960s New York avant-garde scene.

GreenCine “The Structure of Human Life”: Kim Ki-duk.

The New York Times Edward Yang, 59, Director Prominent in New Taiwan Cinema, Is Dead. Plus, Remembering Edward Yang (Village Voice).

The Boston Phoenix Keeping it Real: Sticking to the facts in a post-9/111 world, Michael Winterbottom and Paul Greengrass lead a new breed of filmmaker.

Cinema-Scope Beyond Brut: The Art of Cornel Wilde.

Village Voice A Critics' Duet on Nashville: Remembering Robert Altman through the words of Voice critics past.

The Observer Showman and shaman: From M*A*S*H to country-house murder, the maverick from Kansas followed his own star, says Philip French, delighting us and changing the course of cinema along the way.

Film International Charles Warren discusses the links between Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, and American philosopher Stanley Cavell.

Sight & Sound Girl Interrupted: Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth creates a beautiful and terrifying fantasy netherworld for the young girl at its centre. Could it be an update of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Mark Kermode asks the director.

Senses of Cinema Dziga Vertov: The Idiot.

Film Monthly Interview: Aronofsky's Fountain of Love.

Filmmaker Interview: Richard Linklater’s new film is an affectionate comedy that critiques American corporate culture by telling the stories of the working class people it most often neglects.

GreenCine Tales from the Brothers Quay.

indieWIRE Interview: Barbara Kopple, co-director of "Shut Up & Sing".

Filmmaker Sound of Silence: James Ponsoldt talks with Kelly Reichardt about Old Joy.

The Guardian 'This is seat-of-your-pants stuff': Who says film has to be a costly, lumbering beast? Mike Figgis is capturing the capital with cheap cameras and a trumpet.

Midnight Eye Interview with director Takashi Yamazaki.

MovieMaker Requiem for a Dreamer: Michel Gondry explores The Science of Sleep.

Pop Matters Beautiful Freaks: Frequently presenting people living cruel and impossible lives, Lech Kowalski's films observe in detail how they navigate their existence, successfully or not.

Reverse Shot Nicolas Winding Refn: An Interview.

Time Out Alan Bennett: Interview.

GreenCine Raúl Ruiz and the Poetics of Cinema.

Rouge Erice-Kiarostami: The Pathways of Creation.

Sight & Sound I'm Not A Political Filmmaker Goddamit!: Interview with Oliver Stone.

BBC The co-directors of Echo Park LA on making a film in the blink of an eye (Video Interview).

BBC: Calling the Shots Interview with Ridley Scott.

The Boston Phoenix John Huston: Reflections on a Golden Filmmaker.

Cinema-Scope Scratch That Itch: William Friedkin on Bug.

Film Comment Paul Schrader: The Book I Didn't Write.

Film International Resurrecting Horror: "Rottweiler" and the Fantastic Films of Brian Yuzna

Film Monthly Guillermo Del Toro/Pan’s Labyrinth Interview.

Senses of Cinema Otto Preminger and the End of Classical Cinema.

Undercurrent In an excerpt from his forthcoming book on Alexander Dovzhenko, author Marco Carynnyk weaves biography and analysis in a consideration of the sources and patterns of Dovzhenko's Earth.

LA Weekly Not of this Earth: American Cinematheque fetes Roger Corman at 80.

MovieMaker Master of the Universe: Director Frank Coraci has the world in the palm of his hand.

Village Voice In Living Color: Tashlin's eye-popping '50s artifacts pile on gags like live-action Looney Tunes.

Slant Magazine Tashlin.

Bright Lights Film Journal "How My Brain Works": An Interview with Michel Gondry.

British Film Institute Carol Reed Centenary.

Close-Up Film Pedro Almodóvar chats about Volver.

Filmmaker Check Your Head: Two years after his short film about a drug-addicted inner-city teacher won Sundance, Ryan Fleck returned with his feature-length adaptation of that story, Half Nelson.

Sight & Sound Songs For Swinging Lovers: Hou Hsiao-Hsien may be a long-established name to the cognoscenti, but his work is still little known in the UK. Three Times, his exquisite new tripartite film, is about to change all that.

Off Screen The Great Artist, the Little Fellow: Reading Charlie Chaplin and James Agee.

Reverse Shot Robert Altman: An Interview.

Rouge Dziga Vertov: Storyboard.

Slant Magazine Flesh and Desire: The Films of Frank Borzage.

Close-Up Film Urban Heroes/Urban Monsters: The Cinema of Martin Scorsese.

Future Movies North & South: Acclaimed director Laurent Cantet discusses his new film, Heading South.

Bright Lights Film Journal Four Films in Search of an Author: Egoyan Since Exotica.

Film Comment Elaine May in Conversation with Mike Nichols.

The Guardian Where angels fear to tread: No subject could be more sensitive and difficult to film than the destruction of the World Trade Center. But after a particularly bad run in Hollywood, director Oliver Stone has everything to play for.

Off Screen  The "Cult" of Kubrick.

Cinema-Scope Richard Kelly's Revelations: Defending Southland Tales.

Filmmaker Agent Provocateur: With The Outsider, cinematic bad-boy James Toback gets in front of the camera for first-time filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki.

GreenCine In The Puffy Chair with the Duplass Brothers.

The Guardian Man on the moon: Women with a fetish for smelling rice, people shot through plugholes and now a musical about a prince and a raccoon in love. Dare you enter the extraordinary world of film-maker Seijun Suzuki?

indieWIRE Interview: Larry Clark, Director of "Wassup Rockers".

I On Cinema! Interview: Michael Winterbottom.

LA Weekly Remembering Pitfall: How De Toth’s noir prefigured the era of the antihero (by Bertrand Tavernier).

Midnight Eye Interview: Shunichi Nagasaki.

MovieMaker The Color of Forbidden Fruit: Chen Kaige lights up the screen with The Promise.

Off Screen Dario Argento, Maestro Auteur or Master Misogynist?

Cineuropa Bruno Dumont: An interview with the provocative French director who brought his latest film, Flandres, to the Cannes Film Festival competition.

Film Comment A Painful Case: A Conversation with Cristi Puiu, a director under the influence.

Filmmaker Teenage Wasteland: Scott Macaulay talks with David Slade about his searing story of sexual trespass and vigilante justice, Hard Candy.

GreenCine Fernando Solanas: “I am the Camera”.

The Guardian 'I've never been in the firing line like this before': Director Richard Linklater is known for his gentle, Gen-X movies. Now he's taking on the American meat industry with Fast Food Nation.

kamera The Ozon layer: Antonio Pasolini talks to François Ozon about his career and his new film, Le temps qui reste (Time to Leave).

MovieMaker Writer-Director David Jacobson tackles complex characters in Down in the Valley.

Pop Matters Shh…Its’s Starting: Mechanical Animal. Who's the perfect silent film comedian for our techno-centric age? Here's a hint: he's the classic 'stoneface' who made machines his friends, not his entertainment enemies, during the course of his amazing cinematic career.

Senses of Cinema  Spotlight on Hou Hsiao-hsien.