Contents Festival Journals: Venice (by Harlan Kennedy); Ottawa (by Leonard Maltin); Toronto (by Mary Corliss); The Great Script Tease (article by Chuck Ross); Wild Bill (article on William Richert, with interview, both by Richard T. Jameson); Polestar (article on Jerzy Skolimowski, with interview, both by Dan Yakir); Now Read The Movie (article by Lawrence O'Toole); Ray Bradbury: Shooting Haiku In A Barrel (interview with Mitch Tuchman); Making Book On TV (article by Stephen Farber); Goldie Gets Serious (article on Goldie Hawn with interview, both by David Thomson); Welcome To The Last Chance, Lampoon (article by Myron Meisel); The 20th New York Film Festival (reports by Elliott Stein, James McCourt and Harlan Jacobson); Book review: "Lulu In Hollywood" by Louise Brooks; Television: The Great Sneak Previews Hunt (by Marcia Froelke Coburn and Richard Corliss); Independents: Smashing Myths About The Information Industry (by Amos Vogel); Green Fire (obituary for Grace Kelly by Richard Corliss).

Contents Marcia Pally on representations of women in film; John Lithgow's journals; David Thomson on Sam Shepard; Midsection: Sight & Sound [new photographic and sound technologies] (Marc Mancini); adventures in film school; Michael Mann interviewed by Harlan Kennedy

Contents Harlan Jacobson on blockbuster movies (Indiana Jones, Gremlins, Ghostbusters); Richard Edland and SPFX; Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, by Mary Corliss, Leone interviewed by Elain Lomenzo; Harlan Kennedy on spy movies; Midsection: Lost Hollywood (Mark Mancini tells the sad, stirring story of a city and the industry that created it); Making Under the Volcano
Harlan Jacobson on blockbuster movies (Indiana Jones, Gremlins, Ghostbusters); Richard Edland and SPFX; Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, by Mary Corliss, Leone interviewed by Elain Lomenzo; Harlan Kennedy on spy movies; Midsection: Lost Hollywood (Mark Mancini tells the sad, stirring story of a city and the industry that created it); Making Under the Volcano

Contents David Lean career review and interview; Richard Schickel on the culture of celebrity; Midsection: Franηois Truffaut (Richard T. Jameson on FT's screen space and sexuality, tributes by Steven Spielberg and Todd McCarthy, an FT interview by Dan Yakir); 1984 Movie Revue; David Thomson on Amadeus

Contents Jack Nicholson interviewed by Beverly Walker; Dan Yakir on Desperately Seeking Susan; Fellini interviewed; Midsection: Latin America (David Thomson and Leonardo Garcia Tsao on Mexico, progressive Mexican films, Cuban film, the Miami Film Festival, the Cuban revolution); excerpt from David Thomson's Suspects

Contents Woody Allen; Marshall Brickman, Allen's collaborator, interviewed by Dan Yakir; movie ratings; Midsection: Humphrey Bogart (career overview by Richard Schickel); Latin American cinema; Hungarian cinema; Elizabeth Taylor tribute

Contents Peter Weir interview; small town America in film (Blue Velvet, Peggy Sue Got Married, True Stories); Sigourney Weaver; Nazi propaganda film; Dennis Hopper; Pee Wee Herman; Venice, Midsection: Festival Roundelay (Venice, Gdansk, Toronto, New York)

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

Contents Cover: Alan Rudoplh's The Moderns by Karen Jaehne
Features:
Broadcast News by Richard Corliss
Remaking And God Created Woman by Marc Mancini
Movies into Plays by Robert Sklar
Robert Florey on Charlie Chaplin by Brian Taves
Midsection - Documentarists into Fiction Filmmakers: Robert M. Young's Dominick and Eugene by Marlaine Glicksman
Singing the Blues in Red and an interview with Ken Loach by Gavin Smith
A World Apart and an interview with Chris Menges by Armond White
Journals: Havana Film Festival by Pat Aufderheide
The Sixth Native American Film Festival by Armond White
Chuck Solomon by Austin Lamont
TV: TV Dramas by Tom Carson
Oscar Predix
13th Annual 'Grosses Gloss' by Anne Thompson

Contents Cover: Who Framed Roger Rabbit by David Chute; Richard Williams by Charles Solomon
Features:
Pascali's Island and an interview with James Dearden by Harlan Kennedy
Paul Schrader interviewed by Karen Jaehne
Dean Stockwell interviewed by Pat McGilligan
Norman Stone on British Cinema and the state of things by Graham Fuller
Israeli Cinema by Dan Yakir
Midsection - '68/'88: Sindey Lumet interviewed by Gavin Smith
Naomi Foner interviewed by Anne Thompson
Sixties British Cinema by Paul Kerr
Sixties German Cinema by Andreas Kilb
Sixties French Cinema by Philippe J. Maarek
Sixties Film Theory by Peter Wollen
Sixties American Cinema by Marcia Pally
The Perfect Sixties Woman: Sylvia Miles by Marlaine Glicksman
Reflections on the Sixties by Peter Boyle, John Cassavetes, Constantin Costa-Gavras, Bruce Dern, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Bob Rafaelson, Andrew Sarris, and Haskell Wexler
Journals: Collective for Living Cinema by Armond White
David Lean at Cannes by Mary Corliss
First New York International Festival of the Arts Film Symposium by Gavin Smith
Books: Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego and The "Twilight Zone" Case by Stephen Farber and Marc Green, reviewed by Gregg Kilday
TV: China Beach and The Wonder Years by Tom Carson

Contents Cover: The restoration of Griffith's Intolerance by Miriam Hensen
Features:
Norman Jewison's In Country by Jay Scott
Chabrol's Story of Women by Marcia Pally
Laurence Olivier by Richard Schickel
Steel Magnolias by Karen Jaehne
A Dry White Season and an interview with Euzhan Palcy by Marlaine Glicksman
Advertisement and Product Placement for Teenagers by Lois P. Sheinfeld
Australian Cinema by Harlan Kennedy
Midsection - Hollywood Cinematographers: The Pantheon of Cinematographers by Todd McCarthy
Vittorio Storaro interviewed by Carol Rutter
Sven Nykvist interviewed by Armond White
The Aesthetics of Cinematography by Armond White
Journals: Jacques Annaud's The Bear by Anne Thompson
The Big Picture by Gavin Smith
Shocker and Wes Craven by Marc Mancini
Books: Robert Altman: Jumping Off the Cliff by Patrick McGilligan, reviewed by Andrew Sarris

Contents Cover: Michael Moore's Roger & Me by Harlan Jacobson
Features:
Film Industry in the Eighties by Gregg Kilday
Memorable Films of the Eighties by Greil Marcus
Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors by Marcia Pally
Atom Egoyan's Speaking Parts by Amy Taubin
Prince's Batdance and Partyman by Armond White
Midsection - Character Actors: What is a 'Character Actor' by David Thomson
A Character Actor's Career by Beverly Walker
Jeff Corey, acting mentor interviewed by Pat McGilligan
Brad Dourif, acting mentor interviewed by Marlaine Glicksman
William Hickey, acting mentor interviewed by Gavin Smith
Acting Teachers by Len Klady
Celebrating the 'Celebactor' by Jack Barth
Journals: Kenneth Branagh's Henry V by Graham Fuller
Chatting with Cary Grant by Everett Mattlin
Festivals: New York by Lisa Katzman; Toronto by David Chute; Venice by Harlan Kennedy

Contents Cover: Frears's The Grifters by Maitland McDonagh
Features:
Barry Levinson interviewed by Gavin Smith
Fritz Lang by Peter Hogue
Murnau and Flaherty's Tabu by Scott Eyman
Theo Angelopoulos by Michael Wilmington
Angelopoulos' Landscape in the Mist by Kathleen Murphy
The Long Take in Angelopoulos' Voyage to Cythera by Raymond Durgnat
Arthur Terry by Frank Thompson
Chinatown and Robert Towne by Mark Horowitz
Wild at Heart by Kathleen Murphy
Memphis Belle by Donald Lyons
Festivals: Venice by Harlan Kennedy; Toronto by David Chute
Books: Emotion Pictures: Reflections on the Cinema by Wim Wenders, reviewed by Peter Hogue; Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison and How to Go to the Movies by Quentin Crisp, reviewed by Dale Thomajan

Contents Cover: Marlon Brando by Richard Schickel, William A. Wellman Jr.
Features:
Why Billy Wilder Belongs in the Pantheon by Andrew Sarris
Graham Greene and Film by David Thomson
Milos Forman and Why Havel? By Jesse Bryant Wilder
Mortal Thoughts and Thelma & Louise by Kathleen Murphy
Delusion and Road Movies by Donald Lyons
Danny Aiello interviewed by Gavin Smith
Eisenstein by Nestor Almedros
Fascism & Hollywood by Anthony Slide
Eroupa by Harlan Kennedy
Hanna Schygulla by Jim Emerson
Jacques Demy by Peter Hogue
Sayles's City of Hope by Robert Horton
Life With Video: The Vampire's Ghost by Richard T. Jameson; Mail-order Video by Elliot Forbes, Eurohorror by Maitland McDonagh; B Westerns by Peter Hogue

Contents Cover: Martha Coolidge and Rambing Rose by Robert Horton
Features:
Claude Chabrol and Madame Bovary by Donald Chase
Uncle Moses and the Yiddish sound film by J. Hoberman
Films as Spritual Life and Diary of Country Priest by Philip Lopate
The 'Unreliable Narrator' in Citizen Kane by Peter Hogue
Against Dances With Wolves by Wayne Michael Sarf
Marcel Carne interviewed by Brian Stonehill
Borzage's Lucky Star by Scott Eyman
The Wages of Fear by Dale Thomajan
On the Set of Twin Peaks: Firewalk With Me by Greg Olson
Festivals: Venice by Harlan Kennedy; Toronto by Kathleen Murphy, David Chute; New York by Robert Horton, Donald Lyons, Nicholas Nicastro
Life With Video: Time Machines by Frank Thompson; Protected to Death by Gregory Luce