Double trouble : Tsui Hark & Ching Siu-tung / Howard Hampton -- Bullet ballet : Seijun Suzuki / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Kuala L'impure : the cinema of Amir Muhammad / Dennis Lim -- A Kurosawa Kiyoshi kit / B. Kite -- The bong show : Bong Joon-ho / Ed Park -- Beyond the clouds : the films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Geoff Andrew -- Pawel Pawlikowski : dreaming all my life / Jessica Winter -- Bela Tarr / Jonathan Romney -- Blunt force trauma : Andrzej Zulawski / Michael Atkinson -- Sharunas Bartas / Laura Sinagra -- Ken Jacobs / David Sterritt -- A few moments of arousal in a film by Martin Arnold / George Toles -- Ross McElwee / Godfrey Cheshire -- Judith Helfand : secret stories, video diaries, and toxic comedy / Patricia Aufderheide -- The beardo : José Mojica Marins / Guy Maddin -- Dellamorte Dellamore and Michele Soavi / Maitland McDonagh -- Guy Maddin / Mark Peranson -- James Fotopoulos / Ed Halter -- Christopher Munch : for those we have loved / Graham Fuller -- Pleasures of the flesh : Walerian Borowczyk / David Thompson -- Chris Marker : the return to work at the wonder factory / Joshua Clover -- Moebius dragstrip : Monte Hellman circles back / Chuck Stephens -- The not-too-long discourses of Chantal Akerman / Stuart Klawans.
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"Outside the shrinking American film-culture market there is a vast movie-crazed world where madmen, geniuses, and apostates roam freely, subject to a relatively minimal degree of corporate industry and spin control. In Exile Cinema, prominent film critics profile the oeuvres of working, thriving international filmmakers - from Bela Tarr to Judith Helfand, from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Guy Maddin to Chantal Akerman and Michele Soavi, from Chris Marker to the newest thresholds of contemporary film. These filmmakers battle the greatest odds a modern artist can face: the opposition of mass culture at large and a medium that requires enormous expenditures in every stage of production and distribution. Naturally, the average American movie-head rarely gets a chance to see these marginalized directors' work and often knows about them only through dazzled rumors and rhapsodic hearsay."--Jacket.