February 1998

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Features

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 Big Freeze

Ang Lee's The Ice Storm recalls the chill of the 70s and the mature, moody pleasures of Antonioni, Ozu and Bergman, but does it match them, asks Peter Matthews

Massive Attack

Titanic, the most spectacular and expensive of movies, is beautifully executed, well-acted, exciting and yet still not a 'good film', argues José Arroyo

Frontier Fusillade

The Pakistani epic Zar Gul, shot with daring naturalism and real bullets, depicts a society in free fall. Report and interview with director Salmaan Peerzada by Rani Singh

U For Utopia

From the Morlocks below in The Time Machine to heaven above in A Matter of Life and Death, Philip Kemp looks at the could-bes and should-bes of imagined societies

Books Special

Andy Medhurst looks on three new books about British cinema - and despairs. Plus our quarterly round-up of the latest books

Selected reviews

Reviews in this issue:

• Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis
• Clubbed to Death
• Downtime
• Ice Storm, The
• In & Out
• In the Company of Men
• I Went Down
• Jackal, The
• Lucie Aubrac
• Resurrection Man
• Sick The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
• Spice World
• Stella Does Tricks
• Titanic
• Tomorrow Never Dies
• Traveller
• Up "n" Under
• Winner, The
• Woodlanders, The
• Written on the Wind: Re-Release
• À toute vitesse