Contents "Fantasy States": Schickel on Ronald Reagan; Indian movie stars who've moved into politics; prostitutes in film; Midsection: Glasnost [New Soviet Cinema] (overview, Tarkovsky, Soviet-American productions, Farewell, Alexander Batchan); Mike Medavoy interview; De Palma's guilty pleasures

Contents Cover: John Huston by Wieland Schulz-Kiel; Anjelica Huston by Beverly Walker
Features:
Full Metal Jacket by Richard Lacayo
Olive North by Richard Corliss
NYFF at 25 by Richard Roud
The NYFF we'd like to see by Matt Groening
Rob Reiner interviewed by Harlan Jacobson
Mikhalkov's Dark Eyes and Konchalovsky's Shy People by Karen Jaehne
Dancers by Marcia Pally
Yves Montand interviewed by Harlan Jacobson
Scenes from Sammy and Rosie Get Laid by Hanif Kureishi
Diane Kurys interviewed by Marcia Pally
Journals: A Star Wars gathering by Marc Mancini
Moscow Film Festival by Pat Aufderheide
TV: The FCC controversy by Lois P. Sheinfeld
Orbits: Fred Astaire by Harold Meyerson

Contents Cover: The Last Emperor and an interview with Bernardo Bertolucci by Tony Rayns
Features:
Cry Freedom by Armond White
Hollywood Blacklist by Pat McGilligan
Sam Ornitz and Jimmy Cagney by John Bright
Writing for Disney by Joan Scott
On the Director's Guild Strike by Alex Gibney and Anne Thompson
Mary Lambert's Siesta by Gavin Smith
Festivals: New York by Stephen Harvey, Elliott Stein, and Harlan Jacobson
Venice and Edinburgh by Harlan Kennedy
Toronto by David Chute and Pat Aufderheide
Journals: Godard's TV ads by H.A. Rodchenko
NY Gay and Lesbian Experimental Film Festival by Jan Stuart
Telluride by Michae Sragow
TV: Trying Times by Tom Carson