FEATURES: An interview with David Cronenberg; essays on: fairytale films; timing and vulnerability in Hitchcock’s films, and Raffaello Matarazzo’s melodramas; plus discussions of A Dangerous Method, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and Carnage

Summer in Paris and, so we are told, the city closes down. And indeed the excellent Cinémathèque, with its theater, museum, and archive, is shuttered for the whole of August. But my visit brings a chance to see those seasonal releases that never make it to Cannes (much less to foreign festivals), the genre movies to which locals flock, heedless of awards and international distribution.

Paul Julian Smith writes about the Guadalajara International Film Festival, discussing The Prize and Windows to the Sea