March 1998
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Features
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. Interview by Erik Bauer
Massacre Of The Innocents
Visions of the atomic bomb and the Virgin Mary haunt the killer child of Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy. Can we make sense of his killings, asks Charlotte O'Sullivan
The Natural
TwentyFourSeven sees young British director Shane Meadows adapt his DIY handicam approach to a shiny black-and-white boxing movie. Geoffrey Macnab talks to him about staying local and just doing it
Sam Fuller Perfect Pitch
The late Sam Fuller, director of Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss, was the last of the Hollywood directors who had really lived a life. Documentary-maker Adam Simon salutes him
V For Video
From video nasties to video diaries, from surveillance to the handicam, video has permanently changed the way we live and the way the movie industry works. By Richard Falcon
Obituaries
1997's late lamented plus featured obituaries for China's King Hu, EastEnders' Julia Smith, James Stewart and experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke
Selected reviews
Reviews in this issue:
- air de famille, Un
- Amistad
- As Good As It Gets
- Bent
- Blackout, The
- Boxer, The
- Breakdown
- Breaking Up
- Butcher Boy, The
- Fairytale A True Story
- Fallen
- Flubber
- Gattaca
- Good Burger
- Good Will Hunting
- Kiss the Girls
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Mrs Dalloway
- Paws
- This Is the Sea
- Ugly, The
- Wag the Dog
- Prisoner of the Mountains