Contents Cover: Banlieue Films by Berenice Reynaud
Features:
J*U*I*C*E by Jonathan Baumbach
Michael Mann by Richard Combs
Jean Arthur by Dennis Drabelle
Jean-Luc Godard by Armond White; interviewed by Gavin Smith
George Loane Tucker by Frank Thompson
Michele Soavi by Maitland McDonagh
CD-ROM et al. by Kathleen Murphy
Warner Bros. Pre-Code by Dale Thomajan
Two Seconds by Donald Phelps
Michael Curtiz by Donald Lyons
21st 'Grosses Gloss' by Anne Thompson
Festivals: Sundance by Gavin Smith, Rachel Rosen
Oscar Predix

Contents Oscar Redux: reporting on who won, and which Oscar Predix participants got the most right

An affectionate, insightful new documentary portrait of Sam Fuller, by Robert Horton

CLINT EASTWOOD, honoree at the FSLC's 1996 Gala:

-- ''Clint on the Back Nine,'' by Richard Schickel

-- Eastwood as romantic hero, by Kathleen Murphy

-- The Bridges of Madison County, by Richard Combs

Music video plagiarism, by Maria Demopoulos

Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, by Jacob Levich

Hong Kong filmmaker Stanley Kwan (Rouge; Actress; Red Rose, White Rose), by Michael Atkinson

Chinese silents, by Matt Severson

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.: ''The Choreography of Hope,'' by John Tibbetts

John Sayles: the writer-director of Return of the Secaucus 7, Passion Fish, et al. talks about his new film Lone Star; interviewed by Gavin Smith

Chris Smith's ultra-low-budget debut, American Job, by Jim Supanick

From Mexico: Nobody Will Speak of Us When We Are Dead, by Chris Chang

Berlin Film Festival report, by Harlan Kennedy

Life signs from the French cinema: Purple Noon and Nelly et M. Arnaud, by Donald Lyons

Also, Japanese animator Oshii Mamoru, by David Chute - and more.

Contents Cannes '96, articles by Mary Corliss and Harlan Kennedy Los Angeles Noir by Paul Arthur Abbas Kiarostami interviewed by Phillip Lopate and Godfrey Cheshire on Kiarostami Mission: Impossible by Howard Hampton Cinema Sex Magick, the films of Donald Cammell by Chris Chang Marcel Ophuls interviewed by Kurt Jacobsen Trainspotting by Harlan Kennedy

Also, Psycho Revisited, Anthony Mann, Michael Haneke, Bertolucci's Guilty Pleasures and more.

Contents Independence Day and the summer blockbuster syndrome, by Kent Jones

READ IT HERE!

In praise of Dan Ireland's The Whole Wide World, by Kathleen Murphy

READ IT HERE!

Eric Rohmer's Rendezvous in Paris et al., by Armond White

Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang, by Chuck Stephens

WWII: British cinema's stiff upper lip, by Harlan Kennedy

Maurice Pialat achieves his masterpiece, Le Garηu, by Dave Kehr

Hong Kong movie goddess Brigitte Lin, by Howard Hampton

READ IT HERE!

John Carpenter's Guilty Pleasures

Artists making (film) art: Basquiat, Arena Brains, et al., by Chris Chang

Nick Gomez: the director of illtown, New Jersey Drive, and Laws of Gravity interviewed by Gavin Smith

Remembering Jacques Demy's Young Girls of Rochefort, by William Johnson

The Window, a film noir classic, by Paul Arthur

Stanley Kubrick talks! (in a British TV documentary), by Richard Combs

Book review: two biographies of Orson Welles (from David Thomson and Simon Callow), assessed by Donald Lyons; and more.

Contents NYFF as seen by Robert Horton and Phillip Lopate, plus Donald Lyons on Vertigo and Paul Arthur on (the absence of) avant-garde visions.


Kathleen Murphy on Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady.


Elia Kazan's Wild River, by Donald Chase.


Cave painter: Cornel Wilde, by Michael Atkinson.


Venice and Toronto film festivals.


James Benning: the filmmaker as landscape, by Bιrιnice Reynaud.


The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville by Peter Hogue.


Don Siegel's The Killers by Howard Hampton.


Hollywood Egypt: Youssef Chahine, by Dave Kehr.


Jules Dassin: An interview with the director of Naked City, Rififi, et al., by Patrick McGilligan.


James Benning: the filmmaker as landscape, by Bιrιnice Reynaud.


Marcel Ophuls interviewed by Kurt Jacobsen.


Also, Chris Chang on Engelchen, Dale Thomajan on show-going and more.