February 1999
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Features
Bayonets In Paradise
Terrence Malick's return to cinema, The Thin Red Line, is a spectacular achievement - but its take on World War II provokes concern, argues Colin McCabe. Plus Geoffrey Macnab on author James Jones
Banging Big With Iron Mike
James Toback, director of the notorious Fingers and this month's Two Girls and Guy, is not afraid of taking risks. He talks to David Thompson about working with Wu-Tang Clan, spending the night with Mike Tyson and making Robert Downey Jr squirm
The Big Tease
The Oscar-nominated Danish film The Celebration, the first Dogma movie to be released in the UK, uses shock tactics to tell a traditional tale of a family falling apart. Geoffrey Macnab interviews director Thomas Vinterberg
Dreaming The Unthinkable
Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful sets a comedy in a concentration amp. Does it tell a partial truth, or has the director gone too far, asks J. Hoberman
Books Special
Fassbinder set out to make films that courted controversy and commented on his times. Sheila Johnston reviews two very different takes on his work. Plus our quarterly round-up of the latest books
Selected reviews
Film of the Month: Psycho
Gus Van Sant's rerun of Hitckcock's, Psycho is more like a mild cover version than a full-blown remake. But it's all in the mix, argues Gavin Smith
Hideous Kinky
Two Girls and a GuyReviews in this issue:
- Babe Pig in the City
- A Bug's Life
- Bulworth
- 54
- Hideous Kinky
- Hilary and Jackie
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back
- Life is Beautiful
- Living Out Loud
- Mean Guns
- Meet Joe Black
- A Night at the Roxbury
- Pecker
- Film of the Month: Psycho
- Sex Life in L.A.
- Shakespeare in Love
- The Siege
- Star Trek Insurrection
- Stepmom
- Two Girls and a Guy