Contents Welcome to the nerdhouse: Todd Solondz's Happiness features a sympathetic paedophile. Neil LaBute's Your Friends & Neighbors focuses on misogynists, rapists and philanderers. Charles Taylor wonders why so many US indie fil

Contents Game boy: Chris Rodley interviews eXistenZ director David Cronenberg

Tearing the roof off: Peter Mullan interviewed about Orphans

God's lonely man: Amy Taubin re-examines Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver

A child's demon: David Thomson on Charles

Contents Make it yellow: Jonathan Romney interviews Theo Angelopoulos about Eternity and a Day

Bigger than life: Yvonne Tasker on Kathryn Bigelow's career

The Innovators 1920-1930: Laura Mulvey on Sam Warner

Farewell to Napoli: Nick James on Notting Hi

Contents Rubber reality: Kim Newman on The Matrix

Ms Tough: Leslie Felperin on the career of Judy Davis

Papa yakuza: Tony Rayns interviews Takeshi Kitano on the set of Kikujiro

Dooming the video: the arrival of DVD

The Innovators 1930-1940: Harvey

Contents Blood Symbol: As a new morality campaign against Hollywood violence gains momentum, Mary Harron's film of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis' serial-killer trader tale, is at last being shot. Jeff Sipe talks to Harron and star

Contents Welcome to my nightmare: Incest is a tough subject for any film-maker, but for Tim Roth, a British movie star making his directing debut, it's worth the risk.

Bill Murray: In cold blood: How on

Contents Stanley Kubrick 1928-99 Resident Phantoms: When The Shining was released in 1980 it was dismissed as a technical exercise in horror, but its reputation for distilling the uncanny has grown. Jonathan Romney thinks it may be the

Contents Women directors special soul survivor: In the shape of Holy Smoke's Kate Winslet, Jane Campion offers up another of her complex, strong-willed heroines - but this time, argues Kate Pullinger, with the masochism excised.

Women directors special soul survivor: In the shape of Holy Smoke's Kate Winslet, Jane Campion offers up another of her complex, strong-willed heroines - but this time, argues Kate Pullinger,... more