Issue 105
January 2000

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The cage of reason: Tim Burton is not the only creative force behind Sleepy Hollow, which may be why it's pitched between horror and the spoofery that made his name, argues Kim Newman. 
Fritz Lang: The

Issue 106
February 2000

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My bloody Valentine: To make The Talented Mr. Ripley a "bruising experience", Anthomy Minghella had to restructure Patricia Highsmith's greatest novel. Nick James talks to the director and his editor Walter Murch.<BR

Issue 107
March 2000

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No smoking gun: Michael Mann's The Insider turns a true story of one man's fight to expose the lethal policies of the tobacco industry into an intense conspiracy thriller. Nick James ponders its thematic links with Heat, Manhu

Issue 108
April 2000

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Death and the maidens: Sofia Coppola's adaptation of The Virgin Suicides goes beyond most dystopian visions of susburbia to a poignant landscape of nostalgia and loss. 
Deadpan afterlife: Buster

Issue 109
May 2000

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A law unto herself: In Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts, playing a crusading, mini-skirted, working-class legal aide, has finally found a vehicle worthy of her underrated acting talent. 
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Issue 110
June 2000

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Binoche the erotic face: As two new costume dramas, La Veuve de Saint-Pierre and Les Enfants du Siecle, cast Juliette Binoche as a tragic muse, Ginette Vincendeau wonders if she can ever explore her full potential. 
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Issue 111
July 2000

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East is best: Cannes 2000: From the new Wong Kar-Wai to the new Lars von Trier, this year's Cannes offered quality and controversy in equal measure, as Nick James reports. Plus S&S' annual round-up of the highlights. 
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Issue 112
August 2000

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In the mood for Edinburgh: Wong Kar-Wai talks about his most difficult film-making experience with Tony Rayns. Plus festival highlights: Japan's horror hit The Ring, Mike Figgis' split-screen Time Code, The Beaver Trilogy and

Issue 113
September 2000

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How do you solve a problem like Von Trier?: With Bjork plausible in the lead role and her true pop self singing her own songs, what else is it about Lars von Trier's anti musical Dancer in the Dark that has so divided the crit

Issue 114
October 2000

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Beauty's slow fade: The House of Mirth, a sumptuous adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel, marks a triumphant change of direction for Terence Davies. Philip Horne explains its virtues and talks etiquette and music with the direc

Issue 115
November 2000

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Ugly (In a nice way): Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is one of Australia's most notorious killers. Nick Roddick asks Chopper director Andrew Dominik what attracted him to a man said to have murdered 19 people and arranged

Issue 116
December 2000

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Stealth and duty: Ang Lee's ravishing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon introduces full-throttled romance to the martial-arts genre. Philip Kemp finds out why the director keeps tackling projects so mould-breaking they sca