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Motion pictures

Lonely island

by Francine Prose,

Mike Leigh's intimate cinema

Reborn to be wild

by Terry Southern,

Adult situations

by Brett Fletcher Lauer,

Godard the Obscure

by J. Hoberman,

What happened to the icon of ’68?

Bollywood Shuffle

by George Michelsen Foy,

A white actor tries to break into Hindi film

Holler back

by Harper’s Staff,

A Foreign Policy You Can’t Refuse

by John C. Hulsman, A. Wess Mitchell,

By John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell, from “Pax Corleone,” published in February on the website of The National Interest. Hulsman is a scholar in residence at the German…

Dictator’s Cut

by Elham Rajabpur,

From “Oliver Stone’s Presence in Iran: Opportunity or Threat?” by Elham Rajabpur, published December 3 in the Iranian daily Keyhan News. Translated from the Farsi by the Open Source Center,…

A tsar is born

by Harper’s Staff,

The mental kitchen

by W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden,Translated by Richard Howard,

Habits of seeing

by Jennifer Szalai,

The unsettling films of Michael Haneke