August 1998

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Features

Bubble Boy

The Truman Show, Peter Weir's satire of a life lived on television starring Jim Carrey, has been fêted in the US for its cleverness. But how clever is it?

Medium Cool

Is the "British renaissance" mere hype or is there a new energy and nerve in UK production? Sight and Sound asks seven film-makers what working in Britain is like for them

Gleaning The Tube

Hollywood film-makers keep revisiting their childhood by cannibalising small-screen 60s hits. Will The X Files outstrip Star Trek's empire, asks Andrew O'Hehir

Bollywood In Britain

The Bombay hit factory is looking to Europe, with films now being set and shot there. Heather Tyrrell follows the glitter trail from Scotland to the London suburbs

Books Special

When Bruce Willis says he doesn't care about the printed word and Truffaut asks what critics dream about, Amy Taubin wonders if dinosaurs are even capable of dreaming. Plus our quarterly round-up of the latest books

Selected reviews

Reviews in this issue:

• Brylcreem Boys, The
• Castle, The
• "Chubby" Down Under and Other Sticky Regions
• Daytrippers, The
• Dr. Dolittle
• Eve's Bayou
• Firelight
• Gadjo dilo
• Gang Related
• Gingerbread Man, The
• Godzilla
• Going All the Way
• Hana-Bi
• Hotel de Love
• Lost in Space
• Magic Sword Quest for Camelot, The
• Metroland
• Monk Dawson
• Palmetto
• Six Days Seven Nights
• To Have & to Hold
• War at Home, The
• Dance of the Wind
• Kingdom [series II], The
• Life Is All You Get
• The Thief