Issue 165
January 2005

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So Many Moustaches!: A cache of films by Edwardian company Mitchell & Kenyon brings to life the ghosts of a lost world. Nick James watches in wonder. 
Fly Guy: In the The Aviator Martin Scorsese pays tribute to Howard Hughes and Hollywood's golden age.

Issue 166
February 2005

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Red, White And Brew: In Sideways Alexander Payne follows two emotionally retarded middle-aged men around the Californian vineyards. But how does he make us like them, asks Mark Salisbury. 
Muscular Contractions: Sex scenes are a matter of letting the a

Issue 167
March 2005

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Lesser Spotted Fish And Other Stories...: Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou charts the problems of an autocratic, obsessive director. 'It's not based on me,' he promises Kevin Conroy Scott. Plus Ali Jaafar explores the underwater world of

Issue 168
April 2005

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Tell It To The Camera: Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation stitches together home movies from his childhood onwards into a no-budget documentary of wrenching emotional honesty and visual power. B. Ruby Rich reports. 
Theatre of Complicity: Catherine Deneuve

Issue 169
May 2005

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Only Human: Douglas Adams' surreal SF comedy Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a huge cult success as a radio series, a TV show and a novel. But does the long-awaited film adaptation work, asks Andrew Osmond. Plus its director-producer team talk to Edw

Issue 170
June 2005

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The Godard Interview: I, A Man Of The Image: The upbeat mood of Godard's Notre musique, in which war is hell, Sarajevo a purgatory and heaven a lakeside idyll, was not built to last. 'It's exhausted,' the director tells Michael Witt. 
The Fickle Finger

Issue 171
July 2005

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Funny Peculiar: Bald, gangly and nervous-looking, Alastair Sim was one of British cinema's great eccentrics. And among its finest actors, argues Michael Brooke. 
Geometry Of Feelings: Alain Delon and Monica Vitti adorn L'eclisse, a chilly, formally dar

Issue 172
August 2005

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Edinburgh Cringe: Festival is a freewheeling Altmanesque comedy about the Edinburgh Fringe festival. So how come it's funny and tragic and romantic all at once? Director Annie Griffin, creator of television's The Book Club, knows how. All comedians 'are l

Issue 173
September 2005

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The Storyteller: Ian Christie explains how Michael Powell's unfinished fantasia of 1973 moves between the imagined and reality, scrolling through his life and loves with wit and sensuality. 
Edinburgh 2005: The Sun: Aleksandr Sokurov's new film is an u

Issue 174
October 2005

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Castles In The Sky: Veteran animator Hayao Miyazaki's new film Howl's Moving Castle draws on motifs from his past work and anime's longstanding fascination with children's literature, writes Andrew Osmond. 
School For Scandal: Dealing with an all-girls

Issue 175
November 2005

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Edward Lawrenson on a thriller that takes a knowing look at Hollywood 
Good Night And Good Luck: Geoffrey Macnab on George Clooney's tribute to speaking your mind 
The Death Of Mr Lazarescu: Mark Cousins on death in Bucharest<br

Issue 176
December 2005

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Script Special: The Man Who Wasn't There: Eliot Stannard wrote Hitchcock's ?rst ?lms and produced one of the earliest screenwriter's manuals. Michael Eaton heralds a forgotten pioneer of British cinema 
Songs For Swinging Lovers: A lurid look at the da