October 1998
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Features
Blind Date
Elmore Leonard's laid-back pulp is a hard nut for movie-makers to crack, but Steven Soderbergh's understated Out of Sight succeeds where others fail, argues Peter Matthews. Plus Screenwriter Scott Frank talks to Leslie Felperin
The Man Who Would Be Christ
Andrzej Zulawski is known in Britain for only one film - Possession - but his extraordinary Polish and French works are the essence of cinema, argues David Thompson
Managing The Mini Boom
Has the British confidence bubble burst before the mini-studios are even up and running? Geoffrey Macnab talks to four key figures influencing the industry's future
Suspicion
David Mamet swaps America's mean streets for Edwardian England in The Winslow Boy. Nick James visits the set and asks the director about tough talk and Terence Rattigan
Mud In Your Eye
Kuhle Wampe was Bertolt Brecht's response to what he called the "miserable botch-up" of his The Threepenny Opera. Philip Kemp examines Brecht's troubled relationship with cinema
How Low Can You Go?
Why is humiliation comedy so successful? As the Farrelly brothers' There's Something about Mary garners high praise for low laughs, Paul Spinrad surveys the genre from Aristophanes to Dumb & Dumber
Cruise Control
William Friedkin's 1979 thriller Cruising, set among Greenwich Village's gay bars, is ripe for reassessment. Mark Kermode talks to the director, and Paul Burston investigates its changing reputation
Selected reviews
Reviews in this issue:
- Avengers, The
- Buffalo '66
- Déjà Vu
- Divorcing Jack
- East Side Story
- Ever After
- He Got Game
- Kissing a Fool
- Mercury Rising
- Mulan
- Perfect Murder, A
- Players Club, The
- Primary Colors
- Real Howard Spitz, The
- Safe Men
- Secret Défense
- Sixth Happiness
- Small Soldiers
- Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, A
- There's Something about Mary
- Truman Show, The
- Un©ut
- Woo
- Your Friends & Neighbors
- April Story
- Caresses