Michael Atkinson is Professor of Film at the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University and former staff film critic for the Village Voice. His previous books include Flickipedia; Ghosts in the Machine: The Dark Heart of Pop Cinema; Blue Velvet; and a collection of poetry, One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michael Atkinson
Part I. Rockets from East Asia
1. Double Trouble: Tsui Hark & Ching Siu-tung
Howard Hampton
2. Bullet Ballet: Seijun Suzuki
Jonathan Rosenbaum
3. Kuala L'Impure: The Cinema of Amir Muhammad
Dennis Lim
4. A Kurosawa Kiyoshi Kit
B. Kite
5. The Bong Show: Bong Joon-ho
Ed Park
Part II. On the European Outskirts
6. Beyond the Clouds: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Geoff Andrew
7. Pawel Pawlikowski: Dreaming All My Life
Jessica Winter
8. Bela Tarr
Jonathan Romney
9. Blunt Force Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski
Michael Atkinson
10. Sharunas Bartas
Laura Sinagra
Part III. Documentarians and Mad Scientists
11. Ken Jacobs
David Sterritt
12. A Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin Arnold
George Toles
13. Ross McElwee
Godfrey Cheshire
14. Judith Helfand: Secret Stories, Video Diaries, and Toxic Comedy
Patricia Aufderheide
Part IV. Lost between Genre and Myth-Making
15. The Beardo: José Mojica Marins
Guy Maddin
16. Dellamorte Dellamore and Michele Soavi
Maitland McDonagh
17. Guy Maddin
Mark Peranson
18. James Fotopoulos
Ed Halter
19. Christopher Munch: For Those We Have Loved
Graham Fuller
Part V. Defiant Lions of the New Wave Generation
20. Pleasures of the Flesh: Walerian Borowczyk
David Thompson
21. Chris Marker: The Return to Work at the Wonder Factory
Joshua Clover
22. Moebius Dragstrip: Monte Hellman Circles Back
Chuck Stephens
23. The Not-Too-Long Discourses of Chantal Akerman
Stuart Klawans
List of Contributors
Index