May 1998

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Features

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 notorious 'X' certificate (and other classifications) meant for controversial films from Battleship Potemkin to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. By Ian Conrich

Books Special

Michael Eaton celebrates the streetwise attitude of James Cagney. Plus, our quarterly round-up of the latest books

Forbidding Cinema: The Discreet Harm Of The Bourgeoisie

Michael Haneke's chilling Funny Games provokes the strongest audience reactions. Richard Falcon talks to the director about violence and the power of art

Forbidding Cinema: The Censor And The State

Exclusive: how the impounding of two hardcore porn videos led to a change at the top for Britain's key film and video censors. By Julian Petley and Mark Kermode

Forbidding Cinema: Humbert's Humbert

At last Adrian Lyne's Lotita has caused the controversy its star Jeremy Irons says he always wanted. Nick James talks to him about the problems of playing Nabokov's nympholept

Selected reviews

Reviews in this issue:

• Amy Foster
• Anastasia
• Big Lebowski, The
• Deconstructing Harry
• Double Team
• Great Expectations
• Hanging Garden, The
• Hard Rain
• Lolita
• Martha - Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence
• My Son the Fanatic
• Scream 2
• Shall We Dance?
• Something to Believe In
• Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, The
• U Turn
• Western
• Wild Man Blues
• Happy Together
• Live Flesh
• Salut Cousin!