Introduction: in defense of critical interactivity -- The voice and the eye: a commentary on The heart of darkness script -- Tati's democracy -- Paris journal on Stavisky -- Show business in the end: interview with Jim McBride -- Phantom interviewers over rivette -- "Conversation" with Paul Morrissey -- Geraldine Chaplin interview (from London Journal) -- Obscure objects of desire: a jam session on non-narrative -- Sam Fuller spills his guts -- Catching up with Godard -- A lesson in modesty: speaking with Alain Resnais -- Cinema at a distance: interview with Peter Gidal -- The "presents" of Michael Snow -- Ivan the bearable: Ivan Passer on Cutter's way -- Just Jost -- On location with John Carpenter's The thing -- Jackie Raynal -- Documentary expressionism: the films of William Klein -- Pages from the Endfield file -- The Seberg we missed: interview with Mark Rappaport -- A gun up your ass: interview with Jim Jarmusch -- Trailer for Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema -- Falling down, walking, destroying, thinking: a conversation with Bela Tarr -- Trying to catch up with Raul Ruiz -- A handful of world: the films of Peter Thompson.