Film - Best of 2002

ArtForum, Dec, 2002

8. CREMASTER 3 (Matthew Barney) The final film in the CREMASTER cycle; Barney's oedipal battle with Ken Russell, Roger Daltrey, and Richard Serra.

9. Love is a Treasure (Eija-Liisa Ahtila) Ahtila expresses the trauma of suppressed libidinal rage in a blurring of documentary and fiction.

10. C'est le murmure de l'eau qui chante (Brigitte Cornand) Louise Bourgeois's evident trust in Cornand reveals the artist's daily life with a rare intimacy.

FILM: BEST OF 2002 IAN BIRNIE is director of the film department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where he organized film programs on production designer Dante Ferretti and filmmaker Terry Gilliam last fall. His series on film composer Howard Shore begins this month. DAVID BORDWELL is Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His most recent books are Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000) and, with Kristin Thompson, Film History: An Introduction (McGraw Hill, 1994). CHRISSIE ILES is curator of film and video at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, where she has organized film series by Andy Warhol, Liisa Roberts, Gary Hill, and, most recently, Jack Goldstein (see Reviews). AMY TAUBIN, a contributing editor of Film Comment and Sight and Sound and the author of Taxi Driver (British Film Institute, 2000), teaches at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Filmmaker JOHN WATERS is organizing an exhibitio n of his new photographs for American Fine Arts at P.H.A.G., New York, in March 2003.