Film Comment

EDITOR’S LETTER

HETHER YOU’RE talking about movies or the world in general, these are bewildering times to live in. Institutions can change rapidly or disappear entirely—and furthermore, without anyone even noticing—as the very notion of history seems to drop out of the picture. In the long jostling history of one phenomenon we watch closely—the movies!—the acquisition of Fox by Disney

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