September 1998

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Features

American Voyeur

Velvet Goldmine is a kaleidoscopic glam-rock fantasia that celebrates artifice and blurs boundaries. Director Todd Haynes talks to Nick James about Oscar Wilde and working-class heroes. Plus Mark Sinker traces glam's roots in Mod culture and Hammer horror

Electra Takes A Train

What goes through a novice assassin's head? Jonathan Romney salutes Jacques Rivette's Greek tragedy for the 90s, Secret défense

Alan Clarke: In It For Life

From the skinheads of Made in Britain to the soldiers of Contact, Alan Clarke gave British TV its most disturbing images of our culture. Howard Schuman pays tribute

A Rage In Harlesden

Stuart Hall celebrates Babymother, a vibrant dancehall musical-cum- melodrama that gives girl power a new twist

Genius Is Just A Word

Julien Duvivier, director of Pépé le Moko, was a master of European noir and psychological realism. Lenny Borger reappraises his career

Selected reviews

Reviews in this issue:

• All the Little Animals
• Armageddon
• Cousin Bette
• Horse Whisperer, The
• Land Girls, The
• Last Days of Disco, The
• Lethal Weapon 4
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Men with Guns
• Nephew, The
• Paulie
• Saving Private Ryan
• Spanish Prisoner, The
• Species II
• X Files, The
• Zero Effect
• Babymother
• Bossu, Le
• Character
• Hands
• Love Is the Devil Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
• Mr. Nice Guy
• Vie de Jésus, La