October 1999
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Features
Women Directors Special: Soul Survivor
In the shape of Holy Smoke's Kate Winslet, Jane Campion offers up another of her complex, strong-willed heroines - but this time, argues Kate Pullinger, with the masochism excised
The Edge Of The Razor
Sexually explicit arthouse cinema may be back in fashion, but for Catherine Breillat, writer-director of Romance, it represents a career-long preoccupation. By Leslie Felperin and Linda Ruth Williams
The Innovators 1960-1970: The big wig
Andy Warhol's experiments in film-making shook up Hollywood as much as the avant-garde, argues Michael O'Pray
What Are You Looking At?
Acclaimed for her 70s-set debut Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsey discusses her photographer's eye for detail with Liese Spencer
The Heavens Over Havana
Wim Wenders has learned a new joie de vivre from the elderly cuban maestros he filmed for his music documentary Buena Vista Social Club. By Richard Falcon
Interface
Demetrios Matheu checks the foundations of cinema and architecture's relationship; José Arroyo and Andrew Labirth on poetic moves in film; and Kate Stables goes interactive
Selected reviews
Film of the Month: Felicia's Journey
Atom Egoyan and the heroine of his new "anti-Hitchcockian" film Felicia's Journey find something nasty in the garden. Jonathan Romney digs up the topsoil
Reviews in this issue:
- À la Place du coeur
- After Life
- American Pie
- Big Daddy
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Disturbing Behavior
- Drop Dead Gorgeous
- Election
- Film of the Month: Felicia's Journey
- The General's Daughter
- Goodbye Lover
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Instinct
- Julie and the Cadillacs
- A Kind of Hush
- LA without a Map
- The Love Letter
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Mifune
- Nights of Cabiria
- Paperback Hero
- Sweet Angel Mine
- The Theory of Flight
- The Trench