Contents Director Gillian Armstrong, Jean Renoir, Roger Corman, Ladies' night, Bringing the War Home, Saul Zaentz interview.

Contents Gene Kelly, Images in Exile, Yukio Mishima, Emilio Estevez, Television History of Central America, Paper tiger TV, Eastwood tapes, John Bailey interview.

Contents Sam Peckinpah, The great escape for gays, Rebecca DeMornay, Blackboard Jungle, Life after Punk, Ten spy films, Paul Bartel interview.

Contents Francois Truffaut, Return to Ox, Heimat German saga, Rip Torn, New York Independents make movies, The Ratings game, The Peckinpah Tapes, Masahiro Shinoda interview.

Contents Reminiscences and reflections on the art of filmmaking, 1975-1985 Ten Years That Shook the World, Nineteen people who shaped the decade, The Big Picture, The Best of 'American Film'.

Contents COVER:

ROSANNA ARQUETTE


FEATURES :

Dialogue on Film: BARBARA CORDAY tells how Cagney & Lacey was born and where she thinks television is headed (Includes pic of Sharon Gless & Tyne Daly).

Point of View: Rear-Garde - This year's 'Biennial' testifies to the weakness of the movement.
ROSANNA ARQUETTE - Material Girl (Pix include Madonna, Tommy Lee Jones).

Directors at War - While GEORGE STEVENS was filming the army in Europe, JOHN FORD was fighting the navy in the Pacific.

Fiction: My First Script, by Ellie Burns.

Fear Ate His Soul - Afraid of being alone, RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER created a tawdry world of hangers-on to fill the void.

Once Upon a Time in the West - Heaven's Gate director MICHAEL CIMINO wanted to get it right, down to the last blade of grass.

The Evolution of a Monkee- MICHAEL NESMITH has come a long way, baby.

From the Director: Film, a Cultural Travelogue by Jean Furstenberg (With small pic of Sissy Spacek).

Contents Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran', Off-Hollywood producers, The Emerald Forest, Who really wrote 'Citizen Kane'?, Brazil, SPFX 101, Betaville, Caleb Deschanel interview.

Contents John Malkovich, Indian cinema, A place in the sun, Tony Buba, The Bullfighter and the Director, The rise and fall of Britain's leading theoretical film journal 'Screen', Bud Yorkin interview.

Contents Claude Lanzmann in Poland, Ally Sheedy, South Africa independent filmmakers, Jean A. Mercier, Film editors, Federico Fellini, Alan J. Pakula interview.

Contents Whoopi Goldberg, Director Andrei Konchalovsky, Guns in movies, The price of Japan's prosperity, Gotta Dance, Richard Sylbert interview.

Contents Julie Christie, Yugoslavia filmmakers, Grace Jones, American Playhouse, children's television, Fred Zinnemann interview.

Contents Billy Wilder, Heartburn, Alec Guinness, Red Dawn, Alan Rudolph, Mission to Moscow, Acting for John Ford, Writing bloody writing, Great Balls of Fire, Peter Weir interview.

Contents Sean Penn, Fine Art of Tasteless Television, Robert Mandel Director, Christine Lahti, 9 1/2 Weeks, James Wong Howe, baseball films, Hector Babenco interview.

Contents Barbara Hershey, Movies morals & kids, Artifacts of moviemaking, Gordon Willis, Moonlighting, What's wrong with today's films?, The Big Trail, John Sayles interview.

Contents William Desmond Taylor murder, Top Gun, commercials in public television, Stephen King as director, Chords and discords, The Wild One, Peter Bogdanovich interview.

Contents William Hurt, How not to make a movie, Films Alfresco, Channel 4, Menahem Golan & Yoram Globus, network news shows, Wheel of Fortune success, Hollywood's vintage 'goddesses', Wayne Wang interview.

Contents Producer Michael Mann, Name of the Rose, Joe Bob Briggs, Caravaggio, Spike Lee, Louise Brooks' last days, Slices of the Big Apple, Agnieszka Holland interview.

Contents Burt Lancaster & Kirk Douglas team up, David Byrne 'Talking Heads', British Producer David Puttnam, Jim Jarmusch, Cloning of 'Cosby', Christopher Isherwood remembered, Bernardo Bertolucci in the Forbidden City, Horton Foote interview.

Contents The Mission, Laurence Olivier on his life, The Color of Money, Alex Cox, Hollywood does Broadway, Land of the Pharaohs, Luis Puenzo interview.

Contents Peter Weir & Harrison Ford 'The Mosquito Coast', Gone With the Wind sequel?, Beth Henley, CBS Morning News, Jerzy Skolimowski 'The Lightship', Call of the wild, Legacy of Langlois, Sydney Pollack interview.

Contents The Russians are Coming, The Color of Money, Australian director Bruce Beresford, happy endings, Rock Hudson in the closet, Platoon, Crocodile Dundee & Stand by me, Ismail Merchant & James Ivory interview.

Contents Features:

Mia Farrow.

Dance, Girl, Dance - The Red Shoes is the ultimate ballet movie, but Moira Shearer had to be dragged kicking and screaming into her starring role.

Michael Powell interviewed.

Bleak Chic - Forget the feel good movies of the eighties. This decade will be remembered for its tales from the dark side - the New American Gothic.

Up In Smoke - How far should film and television go in sponsoring the antidrug message? Pix include: Cheech and Chong. Scenes from Reefer Madness, Easy Rider, The Man With the Golden Arm, Platoon and Sid and Nancy.


Plus regular monthly departments:

Dialogue On Film - Stanley Kramer. Pix include Frank Lovejoy & James Edwards in Home of the Brave. Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind.

Newsreel - Pix include: Tom Selleck & mother. Dennis Quaid.

On the Air - Out of Africa, by JM Coetzee. Ali Mazrui's The Africans was denounced as anti-Western propaganda. A white South African gives his perspective.

Close Up - Stuart Gordon. The director of Re-Animator strikes again with Dolls.

Fast Forward - Pix include: Robert Mitchum & Barrie Chase in Cape Fear. Danny DeVito in Ruthless People.
Trailers - Pix inlcude: Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon. Mickey Rourke & Charlotte Rampling in Angel Heart. Richard Dreyfus & Danny DeVito in Tin Men.

From the Director - The Producer: The Person With the Dream (by Jean Picker Furstenberg).

Freeze Frame - Full page pic of Lucille Ball & Eddie Albert in The Fuller Brush Girl.

Contents Raising Arizona, The Ten Best unproduced Screenplays, Barbara Stanwyck, Business for Art's Sake, movie stars on TV, The truth about lying in Hollywood, Paul Bern, Robert Townsend, Stuart Cornfeld interview.

Contents Inside 'Ishtar', Trying to take over Disney, Jimmy Woods, Joe & Kenneth & Gertrude & Alice-the treatment of gays in film, a round-table discussion of producers, Robert Redford 'The Milagro Beanfield War', 'Swimming to Cambodia', Leonard Goldberg interview.

Contents Cover:

Kevin Costner & David Mamet


Features:

I Lost It At the Movies - How a virgin from Broadway learned to stop worrying, love Hollywood, write The Untouchables and direct House of Games from his own script. By David Mamet. Pix include Robert De Niro, Kevin Costner, Andy Garcia.

Kevin Costner - The Untouchables' New Ness.

The Tavianis - A Family Affair. On the set with two Italian brothers making a film about two Italian brothers on the set with D. W. Griffith. Pix include Greta Schacchi, Desiree Becker, Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Omero Antonutti in Good Morning Babylon .

The Last Days of Orson Welles - In which his friends are candid about the great man and one another.

Regular Monthly Departments:

Newsreel - Includes pic of Peter Falk in The Sky Above Berlin.

Dialogue on Film - Jessica Lange. Includes pic of Sam Shepard in Country.

Behind the Scenes - Light at the End of the Tunnel. Stanley Kubrick turned his East London set into a Vietnamese city for Full Metal Jacket. Includes pic of Adam Baldwin.

Off the Set - Truth or Consequences. David Freeman used to write "true" stories for New York magazine that he really made up. Then he made up a screenplay based on his own true story. The result was Street Smart . Includes pix of Christopher Reeve.

Close-Up - William Richert. Beat poet-turned-filmmaker breaks all the molds with Jimmy Reardon.

Fast Forward - Best bets among the month's releases on tape. Pix include: Dexter Gordon in 'Round Midnight.

Trailers - Pix include: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon & Cher in The Witches of Eastwick. Tom Hanks & Dan Aykroyd in Dragnet 1987 . John Candy in Spaceballs .

Freeze Frame - Full page pic of Janet Leigh in Living It Up .

Contents Madonna, James Bond at twenty-five, Platoon, writers forum, Luis Valdez 'Zoot Suit', The Witches of Eastwick, Fred Schepisi interview.

Contents Tony Huston 'The Dead', Stanley Kubrick 'Full Metal Jacket', Bruce Weber in Hollywood, Bob Hoskins, Executive discussion, John Sayles, Emily Lloyd, working for Samuel Goldwyn, Phil Joanou, Jim McBride interview.

Contents Matthew Modine, Alex Cox in Nicaragua, RoboCop Paul Verhoeven, Austin Furst Jr, Norman Mailer as director, Dennis Franz, Hope and Glory, Karen Arthur interview.

Contents Micky Rouke, Bernardo Bertolucci 'The Last Emperor', Gore Videl lawsuit, 'Thirtysomething', 'Forever', the 'Billionaire Boys Club', Jean Harlow-Greta Garbo & the Blacklist, Mary Lambert, John Schlesinger interview.

Contents Oliver Stone, Eddie Murphy, Hollywood unions, your favorite old movie stars, new young European-trained cinematographers, Miranda Richardson, TV Justice programs, Barbara Hershey 'Shy People', Meet Frank Capra, Roland Joffe interview.

Contents STREEP AND NICHOLSON: MAKING IRONWEED

In this issue:

(Re)Creating Ironweed - The author likens adapting novels for the screen to self-amputation. But sometimes the operation is a success.

Bright Lights, Camera, Action - You're not eh kind of novelist who imagines himself on a movie set, see, but you want the film version of your book done right ... Jay McInerney and James Bridges talk about Bright Lights, Big City.

Private Eye - When people talk, Errol Morris listens - the better to create his deadpan, offbeat documentaries. The Thin Blue Line, an investigation of a Texas crime, may be his breakthrough.

Who's On Next - Ten people to watch in the coming year.

Daniel's Day - Daniel Day-Lewis can transform himself from a working-class brat into an aristocratic snob in an instant. His newest films should move the quirky British actor into the mainstream.

Focus: Au Revoir les Enfants - Louis Malle's new film, suffused with grief.

Focus: Television - Fifty years wandering throught the vast wasteland.

Dialogue On Film: Alan Parker - "It's not my job to make you comfortable in the cinema", says the director of Midnight Express and Angel Heart.

Behind The Scenes: Class Act - School Daze, the new film from the director of She's Gotta Have It, takes an unorthodox look at black student life - and some folks aren't too happy about that.

Viewfinder: White Wash - Bathed in liberal sentiment, Sir Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom offers one-dimensional characters and astonishingly simplistic politics.

Contents AFI Life Achievement Award Winner JACK LEMMON

In this issue:

The Old Gringo - With The Milagro Beanfield War, Robert Redford takes on a byzantine novel about Latino culture, bad weather, and an army of character actors. Who says Redford always plays it safe.

Jack Of All Trades - Jack Lemmon has done it all - acting, directing, producing - and won two Oscars along the way. Plus, he's survived a fickle Hollywood for over thirty years.

Nuts - Ace screenwriter Jay Presson Allen returns to television to produce 'Hothouse', a show about a psychiatric clinic where the shrinks can be as neurotic as their patients.

Back In The USSR - An inside look at glasnost in action by the head of the Soviet Filmmakers Union.

Blonde On Blonde - A love letter for Melanie Griffith

Focus: Beatrice - Betrand Tavernier's latest look back in anguish.

Focus: The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On - A banzai film from Japan throws darts at the emperor.

Dialogue On Film: Stirling Silliphant - The Oscar-winning screenwriter is a consumate craftsman. Here he tells how to keep the bankable scripts coming.

Off The Set: Revenge Of The Nerd - Producer Paul Maslansky was just another Hollywood schlepper - until Police Academy. Four sequels and millions of dollars later, everyone in town takles his calls.

Behind The Scenes: True Colors - Sure, Dennis Hopper's on screen and off drugs. But can he still direct?

Flashback: The Paper Chase - On a roll - in one way, at least.

Viewfinder: Wars Of The World - In the nuclear age, do science-fiction fantasies - like the author's new film, Light Years - provide an escape from reality?

Contents Gary Oldman, 'Track', CBS '48 Hours', black film artists, Ed Pressman, 'The Wizards of Speed and Time', Douglas Sirk, Vincente Minnelli films, Tony Bill interview.

Contents LILY TOMLIN

In this issue:

All Of Her - In the mainstream yukster Big Business, Lily Tomlin defies genre and gender to concentrate on the human comedy.

Hollywood And It's Discontents - Broadway's golden boy goes out West.

Broadcast Blues - When CBS News executives challenged "The A-Team" with a news show, they learned the true meaning of Nielsen.

Bombs Away - They say you're only as good as your last movie, yet some of the biggest names in Hollywood have made some of the biggest flops.

Focus: White Mischief - The sun sets on the British Empire - In this black comedy aboutcolonial Africa.

Focus: Who Killed Vincent Chin - Japan-bashing turns murderous in Motor City

Dialogue On Film: Percy Adlon - Bagdad Cafe, the latest film from the German director of Sugarbaby, takes a long gentle look at America.

Preservation: Some Enchanted Evenings - If dance is the most perishable art, television runs a close second. The restoration of Fred Astaire's acclaimed TV specials gives new life to both.

Close-Up: Shawn Slovo - The personal is the political for this screenwriter, daughter of South Africa's most famous white radicals.

Contents Francis Coppola, Wim Wenders, agent Jeremy Zimmer, Garth Drabinsky, 'Call me Madame', 'The Commissar', A guide to political discourse TV-talk-show-style, Steven Spielberg interview.

Contents Debra Winger, Paintings of Davis Cone, Robert Zemeckis, The Jewish problem, 'Eight Men Out', 'Boyfriends and Girlfriends', James Dearden ' Pascali's Island', Frank Sinatra on tape, Steven Bochco interview.

Contents Clint Eastwood, director Paul Schrader, Marcel Ophuls interview, American flops-European Hits, 'Running on Empty', Black comedians and their roles, 'Shame', Adrian Lyne interview.

Contents Jodie Foster, Yoko Ono & John Lennon 'Imagine', David Cronenberg 'Dead Ringers', Martin Scorsese, Willem Dafoe, entertainment lawyers discussion, Haskell Wexler interview.

Contents Steve Martin 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrel', How Hollywood fixed an election, Julien Temple rock video whiz, The Kennedys, Hilary Henkin, 'A Dangerous Life', director Ivan Passer interview.

Contents Dustin Hoffman, Stephen Frears, 'Mississippi Burning', TV movies, director Martha Coolidge interview.

Contents The future of talking pictures, What to expect in movies, Ted Turner, Robert Towne 'Tequila Sunrise', Lawrence Kasdan 'The Accidental Tourist', Larry McMurtry, Tuesday Weld, producer Michael Shamberg interview.

Contents Gregory Peck, Dennis Potter, 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen', The incredible shrinking epic, Martin Scorses, British sex dramas, Carole Lombard, director John Frankenheimer interview.

Contents Sexual cynicism in the movies, Theresa Russell, Hollywood 'sex goddesses', Thomas McGuane, first-time directors, Alec Guinness, 'The Wild Bunch', French director Louis Malle interview.

Contents Sean Connery & his career & future, Comic books into movies, John Cassavetes, James L. Brooks, Bruce Weber documentary on Chet Baker jazz, 'Moonlighting', Joan Micklin Silver interview.

Contents Dennis Quaid 'Jerry Lee Lewis', Gale Ann Hurd, Return of the Return of the summer sequel, The price club, Independent filmmakers, Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, Fellini's '8 1/2', Otto Preminger films, Jill Godmilow interview.

Contents Spike Lee & Robert Townsend, Rob Reiner & Billy Crystal, Film School Confidential, John Fante, Lucille Ball, Shelley Duvall, Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Schrader interview.

Contents Sergio Leone, Euzhan Palcy, Foreign intrigue, Danny DeVito, David Weisman, Robert Bolt, John Patrick Stanley interview.

Contents Robert DeNiro, Sound designers, Laura Dern, Irwin Winkler devoted to betrayal, William Wellman, Midge Sanford & Sarah Pillsbury interviews.

Contents American Film critic's poll of the 1980s, 'Not Afraid of the Dark', Martin Ritt conversation, paternity pictures, video classics reviewed, Jim Henson interview.

Contents Holly Hunter, Ron Shelton, Production Code enforcer Joe Breen, Wild pitches to sell your movie, Bert Fields entertainment lawyer, holiday tearjerkers, production designer Richard Sylbert interview.

Contents Sylvester Stallone, Ron Kovic 'Born on the Fourth of July', Isabelle Adjani, Irish writer Neil Jordan, military techno-thrillers, Anthony Mann, Paul Mazursky interview.

Contents Jack Nicholson, Hollywood 50s scandal rag 'Confidential', Bob Rafelson, wide-screen movies, Julie Christie, on-location in Arizona, actress-director Lee Grant interview.

Contents Tribute to David Lean, Rules of the Game, Natsha Richardson 'The Handmaid's Tale', John Turturro, on-location in Florida, Alejandro Jodorowsky cinematic master of the surreal.

Contents Tom Hanks, If critics picked the Oscars, John Waters, Hitchcock goes 'Psycho', riddle of the archives, David Lynch 'Twin Peaks', Garry Marshall interview.

Contents In praise of actors, 'Last Exit to Brooklyn', AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival, Top 40 entertainment companies, Peter Guber & Jon Peters, Laser-disc machines, James Woods interview.

Contents Nicolas Cage, Great scenes written at the last minute, Summer movie preview, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Roger Corman, Bill Moyers interview.

Contents Julia Roberts, Canadian film, Michael Powell, Casting characters, Louis Malle, producers Richard & Lili Zanuck interview.

Contents The script men, Denzel Washington, Patrizia von Brandenstein, Film school pop quiz, Yugoslavia's director, Greta Garbo, Cannes publicity, Jessica Lange interview.

Contents Philip Kaufman, 35 years of rock in film, Jim Sheridan director, Spanish Dracula, Uma Thurman, Michael Apted & Alan Parker, Television sports, screenwriter Larry Ferguson interview.

Contents Jeff Bridges, Jim Morrison, Tribeca stories, Sex for kicks, Fritz Lang, actor Tim Reid interview.

Contents Anjelica Huston, Barry Levinson in Baltimore, 1990 movie-book collection, J. Stuart Blackton, Robert Altman, Hair-and-Makeup on the job, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond interview.

Contents Coppola's 'Godfather' third chapter, Andy Garcia, Bernardo Bertolucci, The diary of Anne Archer, Producer duos A-list, Liam Neeson, Super 8 memories, William Friedkin interview.

Contents Michelle Pfeiffer, location manager Bruce Lawhead, Michael Curtiz Hungarian director, 1991 Film Festival guide, 'An American Family', director John Schlesinger interview.

Contents Matt Dillon, Looking for trouble, Radio heirwaves, State of the art of film composing, Ennio Morricone interview, Penelope Spheeris & Danny Elfman rebels, production designer Ken Adams interview.

Contents Sissy Spacek, Tribute to Kirk Douglas, Oliver Stone discussion, 10 Best Unproduced Screenplays, Amblin producer Frank Marshall interview.

Contents The critics picks, Andrei Konchalovsky and Roman Polanski about Soviet sets, Young Bogart prep-school rebel, Jazz movie classics, Keith Carradine, editor Anne Goursaud interview.

Contents Cutting-edge director John McNaughton, Producers as masters of the deal, Robert Mitchem video classics, documentarist Frederick Wiseman interview, Susan Sarandon, Oscor Micheaux, Stanley Kramer & Paul Winfield interview.

Contents The Summer movies, Method acting, writer-director Richard Brooks, Vincent Spano & Chazz Palminteri, Americans in Europe, John Sayles.

Contents Betting on bestsellers, The film-school way, Kathryn Bigelow & James Cameron, 'The Addams Family', Laura Dern.

Contents Cinema Psyche, Joel & Ethan Coen's bizarre 'Barton Fink', Who's minding the archives?, directors Charles Burnett & Charles Lane, Myrna Loy, Sean Penn with attitude.

Contents Gus Van Sant, 'Madame Bovary', editor Thelma Schoonmaker, Sidney Poitier dialogue, Costumers' sketch pad, Andrei Codrescu, Kenneth Branagh 'Dead Again'.

Contents In bed with America, Peter Greenaway, Sizing up Jodie Foster, Glenn Close dialogue, Richard Ford, Jeremy Irons.

Contents David Cronenberg 'Naked Lunch', Akira Kurosawa, Pedro Almodovar 'High Heels', Randa Haines dialogue, Armand Assante 'Mambo King'.