2003
Issue 141
January 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Odd Man Out</FONT>: Director David Cronenberg and star Ralph Fiennes both identify with Spider, the shabby schizophrenic misfit at the heart of Cronenberg's new film. Kevin Jackson and Nick James find out why.<BR>
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Issue 142
February 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>A Good place to die</FONT>: A young Mexican's debut feature tackles love, death, redemption and cross-generational sex with skill and sensitivity. Demetrios Matheou talks to Carlos Reygadas about Japon.<BR>
<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Futu
Issue 143
March 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Magnificent Obsession</FONT>: With his new film Far from Heaven director Todd Haynes, like Fassbinder before him, has been inspired to new heights by Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. Plus Nick James discusses the Sirk style wit
Issue 144
April 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Going down</FONT>: Spike Lee's 25th Hour translates the fear and anxiety of its jail-bound anti-hero into a hymn to post-9/11 New York. By Amy Taubin.<BR>
<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Eastern Bloc: Berun 2003</FONT>: Berlin 2003 played host
Issue 145
May 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Don't fence me in</FONT>: Jack Nicholson gave 1970s cinema a new kind of leading man, and he's gone on making unpredictable choices ever since. But are his best roles those where he's least comfortable, asks Danny Leigh.<BR>
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Issue 146
June 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Sympathy for the devil</FONT>: Max, a fictional account of Hitler's early days as a struggling artist, seeks to reveal the man behind the monster. Demetrios Matheou and Richard Black ask why other Hitler portraits resort to ridicule.
Issue 147
July 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Thieves like us</FONT>: Lars von Trier's Dogville was the talking point at this year's Cannes. On an exclusive visit to the set, Stig Bjorkman talked to the director and his star Nicole Kidman Plus our round-up of Cannes 2003.<BR>
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Issue 148
August 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Shock Around The Clock</FONT>: The second series of 24 understands the fears that drove America to war in Iraq, claims David Thomson, as he re-imagines the show directed by David Lynch and Tarantino.<BR>
<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>In The
Issue 149
September 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Eurocentric: Edinburgh 2003</FONT>: From a festival with a 'New Europe' theme we feature Mike Hodges' thriller I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, a dark revenger's tragedy. The director talks to Stephen Chibnall about self-loathing and London
Issue 150
October 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Turning on a dime</FONT>: As volume one of Kill Bill is released, Quentin Tarantino tells Mark Olsen how he gets his audience just where he wants them and why he makes movies in his head.<BR>
<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Darkness falls</FON
Issue 151
November 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Play Madigan For Me</FONT>: Clint Eastwood has returned to pre-Dirty Harry days to make a crime film that matches the best of his Westerns. Adrian Wootton dissects the moral universe of Mystic River.<BR>
<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Sex And
Issue 152
December 2003
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<FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>What a carve up!</FONT>: Horror films endlessly devour and regurgitate characters and ideas. Mark Kerrnode asks what new versions of 1970s shockers The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Alien might mean for today's audiences. Plus Kim New