SIGHT AND SOUND Magazine Covers and Issues Archive

2006

Issue 188
December

Features #Girl Interrupted Set against a backdrop of the vicious reprisals that marked the end of the Spanish Civil War, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth creates a beautiful and terrifying... more

Issue 187
November

Features #Jewels In The Crown The Venice festival combined Hollywood blockbusters with more innovative indie film-making from Europe and the US. But it was a series of films from Asia... more

Issue 186
October

Features #Out Of The Rubble Oliver Stone's World Trade Center tells the heartwarming story of two policemen plucked from the rubble. But is garnering sympathy for America's 9/11 tragedy now... more

Issue 185
September

Features #Edinburgh 2006: Giant Steps US cinema in the early 1970s is a story of film-makers who refused to sell out. David Thomson celebrates a programme of their work at... more

Issue 184
August

Features #Animation: Timeline Andrew Osmond assesses the new innovative directions being taken with Animated cinema releases this Summer. This timeline is a longer version of what appears in the magazine.... more

Issue 183
July

Features #Cannes 2006: American Decadence And Other Tales Adulterated meat, surveillance and US excess proved the abiding themes of Cannes 2006. Some anticipated films proved duds, but smaller pleasures abounded... more

Issue 182
June

Features #Women, Windmills And Wedge Heels With Volver Pedro Almod?var has made a welcome return to comedy, the country and his favourite actresses. By Paul Julian Smith #Shimura Takashi: The... more

Issue 181
May

Features #Under The Influence Dominik Moll's Lemming shows the influence of Hitchcock's The Birds. How far has the French thriller tradition been shaped by the work of the master metaphysician... more

On cover:

Emmanuelle Beart

Issue 180
April

Weight Of Water: The Dardenne brothers' special brand of realism has twice won them the Palme d'Or. As their most recent Cannes triumph L'Enfant (The Child) - about a young... more

Issue 179
March

Ballad Of The Wild Boys: Nick Cave and John Hillcoat's Australian outback Western The Proposition combines beauty with brutality. Nick Roddick talks to its makers about drugs, music, poetry and... more

On cover:

George Clooney

Issue 178
February

Vengeance Is Theirs: Think of Korean cinema and you probably conjure scenes of gangster glamour and extreme violence. But how accurate are western perceptions, asks Grady Hendrix
Interview: Park Chan-... more

Issue 177
January

Mexico Rising: Interview: Ra?l Ruiz talks about medieval religion and chaos theory and asks whether cinema is one of the three hundred known arts
Western Special: Lonesome Cowboys: Brokeback Mountain... more

2005

Issue 176
December

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
... more

Issue 175
November

Issue 174
October

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.
... more

Issue 173
September

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:... more

Issue 172
August

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... more

Issue 171
July

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... more

Issue 170
June

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... more

Issue 169
May

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... more

Issue 168
April

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... more

Issue 167
March

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... more

Issue 166
February

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... more

Issue 165
January

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... more

2004

Issue 164
December

Sadean Woman: In Anatomy of Hell Catherine Breillat takes the sexual explorations of Romance to new and disturbing extremes. She talks to Geoffrey Macnab about breaking the taboos that clothe... more

Issue 163
November

The Innocents: Finding Neverland bends the truth about J.M. Barrie's creation of Peter Pan to boost its themes of art, death and the afterlife. It's magic, says Kevin Jackson.
Lolita's... more

Issue 162
October

It Happened One Night: Michael Mann claims Collateral is the first major studio picture to use digital for photorealism rather than economy or effects. He talks to Mark Olsen about... more

Issue 161
September

Edinburgh 2004: The Motorcycle Diaries charts the future Che Guevara's South American road trip. Nick James talks to director Walter Salles. Plus Jim Jarmusch's Coffee & Cigarettes; The Hamburg Cell;... more

Issue 160
August

Issue 159
July

Mission Improbable: Michael Moore hopes Palme d'Or winner Fahrenheit 9/11 will provoke the downfall of the Bush regime. B. Ruby Rich thinks he needs to learn a trick or two... more

Issue 158
June

All I Desire: Bad Education marks a further maturing of Pedro Almodovar's style with its spidery plot and elegant mise en scene. And this deeply felt autobiographical work has struck... more

Issue 157
May

I Forgot To Remember To Forget: Scrambling memory and time have become key conceits for contemporary film-makers. Nick James asks what movies like the Charlie Kaufman-scripted Eternal Sunshine of the... more

Issue 156
April

Hell In Jerusalem: Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ has been lambasted for its historical portrayal of the Jews. But does it work as a film, asks Nick James?... more

Issue 155
March

Enigma Variations: 21 Grams, Alejandro Gonzallez Inarritu's powerful follow-up to Amores perros, shuffles scenes from its characters' lives and gets the audience to put the pieces together. Is it a... more

Issue 154
February

Issue 153
January

2003

Issue 152
December

What a carve up!: 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... more

Issue 151
November

Play Madigan For Me: 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... more

Issue 150
October

Issue 149
September

Eurocentric: Edinburgh 2003: 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... more

Issue 148
August

Shock Around The Clock: 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... more

Issue 147
July

Issue 146
June

Sympathy for the devil: 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... more

Issue 145
May

Issue 144
April

Going down: 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.
Eastern Bloc: Berun 2003: Berlin... more

Issue 143
March

Magnificent Obsession: 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... more

Issue 142
February

A Good place to die: 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.
Futu... more

On cover:

George Clooney

Issue 141
January

2002

Issue 140
December

Easy on the megaphone: John Malkovich has just directed his debut film, the political thriller The Dancer Upstairs. He tells James Mottram why he waited so long before getting behind... more

Issue 139
November

On a wing and a prayer: The Venice film festival was under pressure to perform after its director was removed with just months to go. Nick James on new head... more

Issue 138
October

Reasons to be cheerful: Is 2002 the year when British cinema stopped trying so hard to please? Ryan Gilbey celebrates a crop of abrasive new films by Ken Loach, Mike... more

Issue 137
September

Cool measures: Under a new artistic director, the Edinburgh film festival has gone from strength to strength, says Nick James. S&S reviews three of its thoroughly arthouse pleasures.
Pure kamikaze... more

Issue 136
August

An eye for an eye: Minority Report confirms Steven Spielberg as the greatest cinematic orchestrator of our time. Kubrick, Hitchcock, sci-fi, Orwell, neo-noir, slapstick comedy and Tom Cruise combine in... more

Issue 135
July

Rich and strange: This year's Cannes was bursting with good films that successfully mixed art and politics. Our critics pick 30 of the best to look out for. Plus Nick... more

Issue 134
June

Issue 133
May

Mother courage: Jodie Foster has specialised in playing single parents and abandoned children. Linda Ruth Williams watches David Fincher's Panic Room and discovers why.
Boom raider: In Biggie a... more

Issue 132
April

Trans-Europe expression: The Rotterdam and Berlin festivals launch the European film new year. Sight and Sound's critics bring you the movies to watch our for.
Heaven's mouth: 'And Your Mother... more

Issue 131
March

Family album: Wes Anderson's dysfunctional family saga The Royal Tenenbaums is even more audaciously eccentric than Rushmore. Jonathan Romney teases out the wealth of seductively contrived imagery that makes it... more

Issue 130
February

Nice 'n easy: With 1960's Ocean's Eleven Sinatra's Rat Pack proved they could make a rotten Vegas heist movie. Now there's a slick, star-studded remake. Shawn Levy wonders why and... more

Issue 129
January

To be or not to be: British actors are universally respected but tragically underused. Nick James asks why the current batch of lottery-funded Britfilms ignore one of our greatest assets.
... more

On cover:

Michael Caine

2001

Issue 128
December

Babes in Babylon: David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. weaves glam lesbian sleuths, Hollywood doo-wop starlets and limo-riding mobsters into an LA wish-fulfilment dream that suddenly crumbles into nightmare. Graham Fuller is... more

Issue 127
November

Casualties of war: Francis Ford Coppola abandoned rather than completed his masterpiece Apocalypse Now. Philip Horne surveys the additional scenes of humour, sex and politics in the director's longer new... more

Issue 126
October

Dead man walking: The Coens' new film The Man Who Wasn't There may look like classic noir, but its ego-bereft hero and homely femme fatale confuse the moral maze, argues... more

Issue 125
September

Gorilla warfare: The new Planet Of The Apes dresses its big stars in elaborate simian costumes and features cutting-edge action scenes. But has Tim Burton lost his way, asks Andrew... more

Issue 124
August

Mr Pink, Mr Indie, Mr Shhh: A favourite of the Coens and Tarantino, Steve Buscemi is the king of indie actors. As he directs his second film Animal Factory, Philip... more

Issue 123
July

Cannes 2001: What's the story, moaning glory: Cannes 2001 boasted new films from Godard, Lynch, Kiarostami, the Coens, Koreeda, Solondz and Claire Denis, plus a re-edited version of Coppola's Apocalypse... more

Issue 122
June

Issue 121
May

Contents Paradise lust: Nicolas Cage is as good as ever in the war romance Captain Corelli's Mandolin, but why is the film
nostalgic for old-style Hollywood, and why is the US so keen on the Europudding, asks Jose Arroyo.

Paradise lust: Nicolas Cage is as good as ever in the war romance Captain Corelli's Mandolin, but why is the film nostalgic for old-style Hollywood, and why is the US... more
Issue 120
April

Contents Emotional engineering: Edward Yang's A One And A Two.... has the family traumas of a soap opera glimpsed through half-closed doors. Nick James celebrates a film that captures Taiwan's middle classes on the verge of a ne

Emotional engineering: Edward Yang's A One And A Two.... has the family traumas of a soap opera glimpsed through half-closed doors. Nick James celebrates a film that captures Taiwan's middle... more
Issue 119
March

Contents Bloodred horizons: When Mike Nichols bought the neo-Western All The Pretty Horses he thought it was the hottest property since The Graduate. Jim Kitses asks if Billy Bob Thonrton's film lives up to expectations.<

Bloodred horizons: When Mike Nichols bought the neo-Western All The Pretty Horses he thought it was the hottest property since The Graduate. Jim Kitses asks if Billy Bob Thonrton's film... more
Issue 118
February

Contents Six degrees of Nosferatu:The circumstances surrounding F. W. Murnau's classic 1922 vampire film are still a subject for speculation. Thomas Elsaesser unravels a web of connections.

Take it like a girl

Six degrees of Nosferatu:The circumstances surrounding F. W. Murnau's classic 1922 vampire film are still a subject for speculation. Thomas Elsaesser unravels a web of connections.
Take it like a... more
Issue 117
January

Contents In bed with the film council: The Film Council's clean-slate approach promises all things to all film-makers. Nick James probes the rhetoric to find out what new British cinema might be.

Thieves on th

In bed with the film council: The Film Council's clean-slate approach promises all things to all film-makers. Nick James probes the rhetoric to find out what new British cinema might... more

2000

Issue 116
December

Contents 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

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... more

Issue 115
November

Contents 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

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... more

Issue 114
October

Contents 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

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... more

Issue 113
September

Contents 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

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... more

Issue 112
August

Contents 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

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,... more

Issue 111
July

Contents 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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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.... more

Issue 110
June

Contents 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.

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... more
Issue 109
May

Contents 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.

... more
Issue 108
April

Contents 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

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... more
Issue 107
March

Contents 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

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... more
Issue 106
February

Contents 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.

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... more
Issue 105
January

Contents 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

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,... more
1999
Issue 104
December

Contents Juggling in the park: Lars von Trier has cast child-woman pop diva Bjork for his new 100-camera musical. Stig Bjorkman talks to the director about what may be the most expensive Danish movie ever made.

Fine Cuts: Sight and Sound samples the highlights of this year's London Film Festival with previews of new films from Claire Denis, Hou Hsia Hsien, Harmony Korine and Shane Meadows among others.

The f

Fine Cuts: Sight and Sound samples the highlights of this year's London Film Festival with previews of new films from Claire Denis, Hou Hsia Hsien, Harmony Korine and Shane Meadows... more
Issue 102
October

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
Issue 101
September

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

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.... more
Issue 100
August

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

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:... more
Issue 99
July

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

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... more
Issue 98
June

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

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
... more
Issue 97
May

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

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
... more
Issue 96
April

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

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... more
Issue 95
March

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

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... more
Issue 94
February

Contents Bayonets in Paradise: Terrence Malick's return to cinema, The Thin Red Line, is a spectacular achievement - but its take on World War II provokes concern, argues Cohn MacCabe. Plus Geoffrey Macnab on author James Jones.

Bayonets in Paradise: Terrence Malick's return to cinema, The Thin Red Line, is a spectacular achievement - but its take on World War II provokes concern, argues Cohn MacCabe. Plus... more
Issue 93
January

Contents Reality is too shocking: Upfront European films - including Lars von Trier's The Idiots, Francois Ozon's Sitcom and Gaspar Noe's Seul Contre Tous - are testing the censors with incest, real sex and graphic
violence. But do we

Reality is too shocking: Upfront European films - including Lars von Trier's The Idiots, Francois Ozon's Sitcom and Gaspar Noe's Seul Contre Tous - are testing the censors with incest,... more
1998
Issue 92
December

Contents With my game face on: There's more to the poker movie Rounders than Matt Damon's stare and director John Dahl's swift atmospheres. It also calls the bluff of America's stonewalling relationship to class. By Shane Danielsen.

With my game face on: There's more to the poker movie Rounders than Matt Damon's stare and director John Dahl's swift atmospheres. It also calls the bluff of America's stonewalling... more

On cover:
Jeanne Moreau
Issue 91
November

Contents Pullinh the pin on Hal Hartley: Hal Hartley's sixth movie, Henry FooL is his first to value real emotion over style, argues Ryan Gilbey. Plus London Film Festival highlights: Chris Darke on Radio On (Rernix); Nick James on Bul

Pullinh the pin on Hal Hartley: Hal Hartley's sixth movie, Henry FooL is his first to value real emotion over style, argues Ryan Gilbey. Plus London Film Festival highlights: Chris... more
Issue 90
October

Contents Blind date: Elmore Leonard's laid back pulp is a hard nut for movie-makers to crack,
but Steven Soderbergh's understated Out of Sight succeeds where others fail, argues Peter Matthews. Plus Screenwriter Scott Frank talks to Le

Blind date: Elmore Leonard's laid back pulp is a hard nut for movie-makers to crack, but Steven Soderbergh's understated Out of Sight succeeds where others fail, argues Peter Matthews. Plus... more

On cover:
George Clooney
Issue 89
September

Contents American Voyeur: Velvet Goldmine is a kaleidoscopic glam-rock fantasia that celebrates artifice and blurs boundaries. Director Todd Haynes talks to Nick James about Oscar Wilde and working class heroes. Plus Mark Sinker traces

American Voyeur: Velvet Goldmine is a kaleidoscopic glam-rock fantasia that celebrates artifice and blurs boundaries. Director Todd Haynes talks to Nick James about Oscar Wilde and working class heroes. Plus... more
Issue 88
August

Contents Bubble Boy: The Truman Show, Peter Weir's satire
of a life lived on television starring
Jim Carrey, has been feted in the
US for its cleverness. But how
clever is it?

Medium Cool: Is the "

Bubble Boy: The Truman Show, Peter Weir's satire of a life lived on television starring Jim Carrey, has been feted in the US for its cleverness. But how clever is... more
Issue 87
July

Contents FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Lucifer Rising:
The Exorcist is probably the scariest
mainstream movie ever made.
As it is re-released, Mark Kermode
takes an exclusive look at unseen
out-takes and talks to all the key
participants.

M

FONT COLOR='#ff0000'>Lucifer Rising: The Exorcist is probably the scariest mainstream movie ever made. As it is re-released, Mark Kermode takes an exclusive look at unseen out-takes and talks to all... more
Issue 86
June

Contents Chemical Warfare:
Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas turns Hunter S.
Thompson's gonzo journalism into
a manic drugs-and-desperation saga.
Bob McCabe talks to the director
about shooting fast and cheap.

Chemical Warfare: Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas turns Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo journalism into a manic drugs-and-desperation saga. Bob McCabe talks to the director about shooting fast... more
Issue 85
May

Contents Saint Nick:
Why is Nick Nolte Oliver Stone's,
Paul Schrader's and Alan Rudolph's
favourite troubled man? Geoffrey
Macnab considers the last of the
complex tough guys.

X for 'X' films:
What the

Saint Nick: Why is Nick Nolte Oliver Stone's, Paul Schrader's and Alan Rudolph's favourite troubled man? Geoffrey Macnab considers the last of the complex tough guys.
X for 'X' films:... more
Issue 84
April

Contents Absolute precision:
With Live Flesh, Pedro Almodovar
takes a Ruth Rendell crime novel
apart and welds it back together with
politics, passion and elegance.
By Paul Julian Smith.

Scuzzballs like us

Absolute precision: With Live Flesh, Pedro Almodovar takes a Ruth Rendell crime novel apart and welds it back together with politics, passion and elegance. By Paul Julian Smith.
Scuzzballs like... more
Issue 83
March

Contents The mouth and the method:
Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown
brings together blaxploitation and
Elmore Leonard pulp. He explains
why he's a 'method writer' and why
he's not afraid to use the 'N' word.
Intrview by Erik Bauer.

The mouth and the method: Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown brings together blaxploitation and Elmore Leonard pulp. He explains why he's a 'method writer' and why he's not afraid to use... more
Issue 82
February

Contents The road not taken:
Martin Scorsese's life of the Dalai
Lama, Kundun, has upset the Chinese
government and put its distributor
in an awkward fix. Amy Taubin talks
to the director about rage, form and
the beauty of passivity.

The road not taken: Martin Scorsese's life of the Dalai Lama, Kundun, has upset the Chinese government and put its distributor in an awkward fix. Amy Taubin talks to the... more
Issue 81
January

Contents Night Fever:
Boogie Nights examines the well-
endowed and the self-deluded in
the 70s porn industry. Director Paul
Thomas Anderson talks to Gavin
Smith about his fascination with
hardcore's performers.

... more
1997
Issue 80
December

Contents Born Again: Michael Eaton on Alien Resurrection

Gypsy time: set-report on Black Cat, White Cat with Emir Kusturica

Falling angel: Carine Adler's Under the Skin interviews

The dream of well-being: Nancy Condee on the ailing Russian Film Industr

Born Again: Michael Eaton on Alien Resurrection
Gypsy time: set-report on Black Cat, White Cat with Emir Kusturica
Falling angel: Carine Adler's Under the Skin interviews
The dream of well-being:... more
Issue 79
November

Contents L.A. lurid: Amy Taubin interviews Curtis Hanson on L.A. Confidential

The thoughts of Chairman Alan: Alan Parker on the bfi

Hollywood Berlin: Thomas Elsaesser on movies in the Nazi era

Body talk: Linda Ruth Williams on Demi Moore and G.I.Jane

L.A. lurid: Amy Taubin interviews Curtis Hanson on L.A. Confidential
The thoughts of Chairman Alan: Alan Parker on the bfi
Hollywood Berlin: Thomas Elsaesser on movies in the Nazi era
... more
Issue 78
October

Contents Being there: Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth

East End heat: Robert Carlyle and Antonia Bird talk about Face

Close to the edge: the repelling suburbs - Richard Linklater's SubUrbia

Recovery: Atom Egoyan on The Sweet Hereafter

Sharks keep swimmi

Being there: Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth
East End heat: Robert Carlyle and Antonia Bird talk about Face
Close to the edge: the repelling suburbs - Richard Linklater's SubUrbia
... more
Issue 77
September

Contents Robert Mitchum: The four great roles of his career.

John Woo: With Face/Off takes screen violence and action excitement to new levels.

Kill and kill again: Why

Robert Mitchum: The four great roles of his career.
John Woo: With Face/Off takes screen violence and action excitement to new levels.
Kill and kill again: Why ... more
Issue 76
August

Contents Voodoo Road: David Lynch's new Lost Highway.

Tierra: Basque director, Julio Medem, speaks about his third movie.

Spike Lee: Get on the Bus

Tierra: Basque director, Julio Medem, speaks about his third movie.
Spike Lee: Get on the Bus
... more
Issue 75
July

Contents Tommy Lee Jones: A profile

Unhook the Stars: Nick Cassavettes is carrying on the family business.

Marcel Carne: Paradise regained

Love

Tommy Lee Jones: A profile
Unhook the Stars: Nick Cassavettes is carrying on the family business.
Marcel Carne: Paradise regained
Love... more
Issue 74
June

Contents Infinite city: articles on The Fifth Element

The Kaurismaki effect: Jonathan Romney interviews Aki Kaurismaki's Drifting Clouds

Road rage: Mark Kermode and Julian Petley on the controversy over David Cronenberg's Crash

The thriller inside me:

Infinite city: articles on The Fifth Element
The Kaurismaki effect: Jonathan Romney interviews Aki Kaurismaki's Drifting Clouds
Road rage: Mark Kermode and Julian Petley on the controversy over David Cronenberg's... more
Issue 73
May

Contents The Infiltrator: Mike Newell interview for Donnie Brasco

Ali's rumble: article on When We Were Kings by Gerald Early

To the end of the world: Chris Doyle's Happy Together shooting diary

Sleeping with guns: Wim Wenders on-set interview for The

The Infiltrator: Mike Newell interview for Donnie Brasco
Ali's rumble: article on When We Were Kings by Gerald Early
To the end of the world: Chris Doyle's Happy Together shooting... more
Issue 72
April

Contents Dealing with the now: Abel Ferrara interview for The Addiction

Talking too much with men: Hadani Ditmars on Iranian film-making

Compulsion: Peter Wollen on Hitchcock's Vertigo

The Jeweller's eye: Pat Kirkham on Saul Bass' Vertigo credits seque

Dealing with the now: Abel Ferrara interview for The Addiction
Talking too much with men: Hadani Ditmars on Iranian film-making
Compulsion: Peter Wollen on Hitchcock's Vertigo
The Jeweller's eye: Pat... more
Issue 71
March

Contents Kiss kiss bang bang: article on Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet

Songs from the heart: Andy Medhurst on Allison Anders' Grace of My Heart, plus interview with Anders

Confrontations: Tsai Ming-Liang talks to Tony Rayns

War zone: Iain Sinclair on S

Kiss kiss bang bang: article on Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet
Songs from the heart: Andy Medhurst on Allison Anders' Grace of My Heart, plus interview with Anders
Confrontations: Tsai... more
Issue 70
February

Contents Pax Americana: Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!

Hill on Hawks: Walter Hill on Howard Hawks

Hawks and the angels: Larry Gross on Only Angels Have Wings and Hemingway

I don't wanna be like everyone else: Quadrophenia article by Jon Savage

Suspense

Pax Americana: Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!
Hill on Hawks: Walter Hill on Howard Hawks
Hawks and the angels: Larry Gross on Only Angels Have Wings and Hemingway
I don't wanna... more
Issue 69
January

Contents The dead: Christopher Walken article

Desperation and desire: Leslie Dick on Roeg's Don't Look Now

The look of Evita: interviews with the film's production designer and costumer

Andrei Tarkovsky special: celebration including career overview by

The dead: Christopher Walken article
Desperation and desire: Leslie Dick on Roeg's Don't Look Now
The look of Evita: interviews with the film's production designer and costumer
Andrei Tarkovsky special:... more
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