DESKTOP REVOLUTION

Scooter McCrae profiles The Edit Center’s novel use of Final Cut Pro (FCP). Plus, Alan Oxman’s FCP tips.

ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH

Jack Lechner sits down with four directors to discuss the making of their second features.

SUNRISE, SUNSET

Chuck Stephens talks with E. Elias Merhige about Shadow of the Vampire.

MARTIAL ARTIST

Andy Klein on Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Plus, The Top Martial Art Masterpieces.

DANGEROUS BEAUTY

Travis Crawford talks with Italian star Asia Argento about her directorial debut, Scarlet Diva.

CRIMINAL MINDED

Tristan Patterson chats with Steve Buscemi about Animal Factory. Plus, novelist/screenwriter Edward Bunker.

INTO THE WOODS AGAIN

Scott Macaulay talks with Joe Berlinger about Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows.

STAGE FLIGHT

Mark Olsen chats with Kenneth Lonergan about his film You Can Count on Me.

OUTSIDER ART

Ray Pride talks to Before Night Fall’s Julian Schnabel.

RANDOM HEARTS

Adam Pincus speaks to Signs and Wonder’s Jonathan Nossiter.

THE SUPER EIGHT

DVDs

Scooter McCrae on hooking yourself up with a code-free DVD player.

WARES

Scott Saunders takes a look at the new Avid/IBM collaboration.

FESTS

Toronto Film Festival coverage by Travis Crawford; Ray Pride on the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

BOOKS

The Films of Mike Leigh reviewed by Caveh Zahedi, My Life with Antonioni reviewed by Ray Pride.

SKATE RATS FOR LIFE

Stacey Peralta’s Dogtown and Z-Boys.

DEER HUNTERS

Jeff Daniels’s Escanaba.

A GREAT DIVIDE

Ryan Deussing’s Confederacy Theory.

WITHOUT RESERVATION

Dan Junge’s Chiefs.

BRIDES AND MONSTERS

Chuck Stephen talks to Curtis Harrington.

EXILES

The Story of Ericka and Klaus Mann.

GIRL CRAZY

Richard Kern’s Model Release.

WET BEHIND THE EARS

Chuck Stephens on Suzhou River’s Zhou Xun.

THE KIDS AREN’T ALRIGHT

Gabrielle Idlet on Jordan Melamed’s Manic.

SLACK RAIN, DRIFTING CLODS

Chuck Stephens on Hazy Life and Timeless Memory.

TORONTO PORTFOLIO

Photographs by Richard Kern.
Sade’s Benoit Jacquot and Isild de Besco; Mia Trachiger’s Bunny; Katherine Isabelle and Emily Perkins in Ginger Snaps; Beth B’s Breathe In, Breathe Out; Baise-Moi’s Coralie Trinh Thi and Virginie Despentes; Bryan Johnson’s Vulgar; Franke Potente and Bruno Fürmann in The Princess and the Warrior; actress Charlotte Rampling; Robert Duvall and Ally McCoist star in Michael Corrente’s A Shot at Glory; Yongyoot Thongkongtoon’s The Iron Ladies.

IFP GOTHAM AWARDS

Photographs by Robert Zash.

BROKEN CHINA

Patrick Z. McGavin on Yi Yi’s Edward Yang.