April 1998

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Features

Absolute Precision

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

Scuzzballs Like Us

Woody Allen in the documentary Wild Man Blues is self-obsessed and misanthropic. So is the fictional Allen in Deconstructing Harry. Jonathan Romney wonders if either one is 'real'

Returning To Zero

Aleksandr Sokurov's elegiac Mother and Son comes highly praised by Paul Schrader, Nick Cave and Susan Sontag. Ian Christie describes the strange career that led to this moment of triumph

Riff-raff Realism

Combining realism with excess and fantasy, 'spiv' films of the 40s, such as Odd Man Out, The Third Man and They Made Me a Fugitive, offer a rich inheritance for British cinema, argues Peter Wollen

Moonshine Maverick

Harmony Korine wrote kids, is 23 years old, and his directorial debut Gummo has been labelled "repellent"by US critics. Geoffrey Macnab talks to him about dysfunctional teens and the censors

W For War

From Boer War silent footage to China's version of the Opium Wars, war films mix history with hysteria, passion with propaganda. By Andrew Kelly and Edward Lawrenson

Selected reviews

Reviews in this issue:

• Best Men
• Different for Girls
• Gummo
• Jackie Brown
• Kundun
• Love etc.
• Man in the Iron Mask, The
• Middleton's Changeling
• Money Talks
• Mortal Kombat 2 Annihilation
• Mousehunt
• Oscar and Lucinda
• Postman, The
• Rainmaker, The
• Secret Agent, The
• Sphere
• Telling Lies in America
• Ulee's Gold
• 24 7
• Junk Mail
• Mother and Son
• River, The
• Rothschild's Violin
• Voleurs, Les