Cover: Francis Ford Coppola by Kent Jones
Features:
Coppola’s The Godfather revisited by Richard Combs
Vanilla Sky by Howard Hampton
Joris Ivens by Paul Arthur
Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher by Richard Combs
27th Annual Grosses Gloss by Jeffrey Spaulding
Film industry wrap-up by Roger Smith
Readers’ Poll Best Films of 2001
Guilty Pleasures by Olivier Assayas
Frameups: Serge Livrozet by Serge Kaganski
Hot Set: Todd Haynes’s Far From Heaven by Amy Taubin
Paris Journal: current French Cinema by Jean-Michel Frodon
plus a look at Bertrand Bonello’s The Pornographer by Chris Darke
Sound & Vision: The Ghost World soundtrack by Jason Gross & photographer Gregory Crewdson by Chris Chang
Distributor Wanted: Abel Ferrara’s R-Xmas by Amy Taubin
Storyboard: War Movies by William T. Vollmann
First Look: François Ozon’s Eight Women by Frédéric Bonnaud
Discovery: Paradox Lake director Przemyslaw Shemie Reut by Chris Chang
Festivals: Sundance by Gavin Smith, Rachel Rosen, and Nicole Armour; Rotterdam by Chuck Stephens
Screenings: Les Destinées by Kristin M. Jones, Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India by David Chute, Human Nature by Alice Lovejoy, Esther Kahn by Jessica Winter
Home Movies: The Lady in Red by Gavin Smith