July 1999

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Features

#Blood Symbol

As a new morality campaign against Hollywood violence gains momentum, Mary Harron's film of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis' serial-killer trader tale, is at last being shot. Jeff Sipe talks to Harron and star Christian Bale on set

#The Vienna Project

Behind The Third Man, rereleased this month, is a dramatic true-life tale of double agents and displaced exiles. Peter Wollen explores the missing links connecting Alexander Korda, Graham Greene, Kim Philby and Winston Churchill

Back To The Blackboard

Bertrand Tavernier's It All Starts Today is a gritty slice of social realism in the Ken Loach vein set in an impoverished primary school. Ginette Vincendeau examines Tavernier's recent commitment to the French underclass

Cannes: Tunnel Visions

Cannes' big competition films may have dismayed and confused critics, but at least it was a good year for modest successes. Jonathan Romney and Nick James review the highs and lows. Plus debut director Jasmin Dizdar, whose Beautiful People won acclaim, offers his festival diary

The Innovators 1940-1950: Sharp practice

Renowned for Citizen Kane, Gregg Toland was one of the great cinematographers of the century, achieving a sharpness of focus that defied available technology. George Turner looks at how he did it

Interface

This new quarterly section covers new media, digital culture and the intersection of art and the moving image. Mark Sinker discusses digicams and voyeurism; Isaac Julien considers the art-film divide; and Kate Saunders auditions the synthespian. Plus news and reviews

Selected reviews

#Film of the Month: Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace

You know the drill: the effects are good, but the story's a tangle of expository waffle. Andrew O'Hehir reports on the lost opportunity that is The Phantom Menace

#The Matrix

#10 Things I Hate about You

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