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.

"This superb collection represents a 'who's who' of contemporary film criticism that brings the reader into closer contact with some of the most important filmmakers working today. Elegant and erudite, this is a key volume for twenty-first-century film studies, a volume to read again and again with pleasure and wonder." — Wheeler Winston Dixon

• Acknowledgments IntroductionMichael Atkinson Part I. Rockets from East Asia 1. Double Trouble: Tsui Hark & Ching Siu-tungHoward Hampton 2. Bullet Ballet: Seijun SuzukiJonathan Rosenbaum 3. Kuala L'Impure: The Cinema of Amir MuhammadDennis Lim 4. A Kurosawa Kiyoshi KitB. Kite 5. The Bong Show: Bong Joon-hoEd Park Part II. On the European Outskirts 6. Beyond the Clouds: The Films of Nuri Bilge CeylanGeoff Andrew 7. Pawel Pawlikowski: Dreaming All My LifeJessica Winter 8. Bela TarrJonathan Romney 9. Blunt Force Trauma: Andrzej ZulawskiMichael Atkinson 10. Sharunas BartasLaura Sinagra Part III. Documentarians and Mad Scientists 11. Ken JacobsDavid Sterritt 12. A Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin ArnoldGeorge Toles 13. Ross McElweeGodfrey Cheshire 14. Judith Helfand: Secret Stories, Video Diaries, and Toxic ComedyPatricia Aufderheide Part IV. Lost between Genre and Myth-Making 15. The Beardo: José Mojica MarinsGuy Maddin 16. Dellamorte Dellamore and Michele SoaviMaitland McDonagh 17. Guy MaddinMark Peranson 18. James FotopoulosEd Halter 19. Christopher Munch: For Those We Have LovedGraham Fuller Part V. Defiant Lions of the New Wave Generation 20. Pleasures of the Flesh: Walerian BorowczykDavid Thompson 21. Chris Marker: The Return to Work at the Wonder FactoryJoshua Clover 22. Moebius Dragstrip: Monte Hellman Circles BackChuck Stephens 23. The Not-Too-Long Discourses of Chantal AkermanStuart Klawans List of ContributorsIndex

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.

"This superb collection represents a 'who's who' of contemporary film criticism that brings the reader into closer contact with some of the most important filmmakers working today. Elegant and erudite, this is a key volume for twenty-first-century film studies, a volume to read again and again with pleasure and wonder." — Wheeler Winston Dixon

• Acknowledgments IntroductionMichael Atkinson Part I. Rockets from East Asia 1. Double Trouble: Tsui Hark & Ching Siu-tungHoward Hampton 2. Bullet Ballet: Seijun SuzukiJonathan Rosenbaum 3. Kuala L'Impure: The Cinema of Amir MuhammadDennis Lim 4. A Kurosawa Kiyoshi KitB. Kite 5. The Bong Show: Bong Joon-hoEd Park Part II. On the European Outskirts 6. Beyond the Clouds: The Films of Nuri Bilge CeylanGeoff Andrew 7. Pawel Pawlikowski: Dreaming All My LifeJessica Winter 8. Bela TarrJonathan Romney 9. Blunt Force Trauma: Andrzej ZulawskiMichael Atkinson 10. Sharunas BartasLaura Sinagra Part III. Documentarians and Mad Scientists 11. Ken JacobsDavid Sterritt 12. A Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin ArnoldGeorge Toles 13. Ross McElweeGodfrey Cheshire 14. Judith Helfand: Secret Stories, Video Diaries, and Toxic ComedyPatricia Aufderheide Part IV. Lost between Genre and Myth-Making 15. The Beardo: José Mojica MarinsGuy Maddin 16. Dellamorte Dellamore and Michele SoaviMaitland McDonagh 17. Guy MaddinMark Peranson 18. James FotopoulosEd Halter 19. Christopher Munch: For Those We Have LovedGraham Fuller Part V. Defiant Lions of the New Wave Generation 20. Pleasures of the Flesh: Walerian BorowczykDavid Thompson 21. Chris Marker: The Return to Work at the Wonder FactoryJoshua Clover 22. Moebius Dragstrip: Monte Hellman Circles BackChuck Stephens 23. The Not-Too-Long Discourses of Chantal AkermanStuart Klawans List of ContributorsIndex

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.

"This superb collection represents a 'who's who' of contemporary film criticism that brings the reader into closer contact with some of the most important filmmakers working today. Elegant and erudite, this is a key volume for twenty-first-century film studies, a volume to read again and again with pleasure and wonder." — Wheeler Winston Dixon

• Acknowledgments IntroductionMichael Atkinson Part I. Rockets from East Asia 1. Double Trouble: Tsui Hark & Ching Siu-tungHoward Hampton 2. Bullet Ballet: Seijun SuzukiJonathan Rosenbaum 3. Kuala L'Impure: The Cinema of Amir MuhammadDennis Lim 4. A Kurosawa Kiyoshi KitB. Kite 5. The Bong Show: Bong Joon-hoEd Park Part II. On the European Outskirts 6. Beyond the Clouds: The Films of Nuri Bilge CeylanGeoff Andrew 7. Pawel Pawlikowski: Dreaming All My LifeJessica Winter 8. Bela TarrJonathan Romney 9. Blunt Force Trauma: Andrzej ZulawskiMichael Atkinson 10. Sharunas BartasLaura Sinagra Part III. Documentarians and Mad Scientists 11. Ken JacobsDavid Sterritt 12. A Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin ArnoldGeorge Toles 13. Ross McElweeGodfrey Cheshire 14. Judith Helfand: Secret Stories, Video Diaries, and Toxic ComedyPatricia Aufderheide Part IV. Lost between Genre and Myth-Making 15. The Beardo: José Mojica MarinsGuy Maddin 16. Dellamorte Dellamore and Michele SoaviMaitland McDonagh 17. Guy MaddinMark Peranson 18. James FotopoulosEd Halter 19. Christopher Munch: For Those We Have LovedGraham Fuller Part V. Defiant Lions of the New Wave Generation 20. Pleasures of the Flesh: Walerian BorowczykDavid Thompson 21. Chris Marker: The Return to Work at the Wonder FactoryJoshua Clover 22. Moebius Dragstrip: Monte Hellman Circles BackChuck Stephens 23. The Not-Too-Long Discourses of Chantal AkermanStuart Klawans List of ContributorsIndex