July 1998

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Features

Lucifer Rising

The Exorcist is probably the scariest mainstream movie ever made. As it is re-released, Mark Kermode takes an exclusive look at unseen out-takes and talks to all the key participants

Magnificent Misanthropes

Purists, sceptics and absurdists all had their day at this year's Cannes. Nick James and Jonathan Romney give their rundown of the good, the bad and the intriguing

The President And The Image

Mike Nichols' Primary Colors turns the novel's satire of Clinton into covert approbation. Stella Bruzzi sees it as the latest attempt to fill the Clinton void with make-believe

Gojira, Mon Amour

Godzilla is back, this time rampaging through New York. But is he the real thing? Ken Rollings looks back over the lizard king's long, distinguished and destructive career

The Big Tease

Trailers cannibalise their parent movies for maximum immediate impact. Andy Medhurst unpicks the only kind of advertising we go out of our way to experience

Z For Zoetrope

From pre-cinema devices to 3-D imaging, Brian Winston describes the key moving-image technologies, in the last of our A-Z series

Selected reviews

Reviews in this issue:

• Barney's Great Adventure
• Blues Brothers 2000
• City of Angels
• Dad Savage
• Deep Impact
• Dream with the Fishes
• Girls' Night
• Guru in Seven
• Guy
• Kiss or Kill
• Kurt & Courtney
• Love and Death on Long Island
• Mad City
• Mimic
• Mojo
• Mr. Magoo
• Object of My Affection, The
• Ponette
• Savior
• Scarlet Tunic, The
• Sling Blade
• Soul Food
• Stiff Upper Lips
• Thousand Acres, A
• Wedding Singer, The
• Wild Things
• Journey to the Beginning of the World