June 1998

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Features

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

Return To Zero

With The General, his new Dublin gangster film, John Boorman returns to his black-and-white, quasi- documentary roots. Philip Kemp talks to him about colour, myth and Lee Marvin in Point Blank

As I Lay Dying

David Thomson ponders the avenging angel that is Lee Marvin's Walker in John Boorman's Point Blank. Is he just the incarnate wish of a dead man?

The Bulb's Got To Blow

After Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Alan Rudolph was "greylisted". But his new Afterglow is a return to form, defiantly a "movie about people," argues John Wrathall

Kiarostami's Uncertainty Principle

More avant-garde than art-house, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's Cannes-winner A Taste of Cherry is rigorous, beautiful and designed to puzzle. By Laura Mulvey

Y For Youth

Mark Sinker picks the pin-ups in movies of all ages, from Mary Pickford to Leonardo DiCaprio

Selected reviews

Reviews in this issue:

• Afterglow
• Apostle, The
• Big Swap, The
• Body Count
• Dark City
• General, The
• Girl with Brains in Her Feet, The
• Gravesend
• Hurricane Streets
• James Gang, The
• Last Time I Committed
• Suicide, The
• Liar
• Man Who Knew Too Little, The
• Most Wanted
• Nowhere
• Real Blonde, The
• Red Corner
• Replacement Killers, The
• Sliding Doors
• Star Kid
• Touch
• U.S. Marshals
• Washington Square
• Wishmaster
• Killer Tongue
• Taste of Cherry, A