May 2000
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Features
Ants In His Pants
For all their wit and frothy glamour, Preston Sturges' brilliant comedies - Sullivan's Travels, Hail the Conquering Hero - are tart with satirical pungency. Philip Kemp reviews his career and Terry Jones, Clare Kilner, Peter Farrelly and Baz Luhrmann salute his best films.
Sick City Boy
The new American Psycho movie revisits the decadence and moral turpitude of the 80s. Nick James traces what it has in common with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and wonders if it's possible to satirise the decade that some say never ended
A Law Unto Herself
In Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts, playing a crusading, mini-skirted, working-class legal aide, has finally found a vehicle worthy of her underrated acting talent. By Roger Wade
Howard's Way
Remembered chiefly as Brief Encounter's quintessential reticent Englishman, Trevor Howard was a more versatile and consummate professional actor than his image would allow. By Geoffrey Macnab
This Gun For Hire
Some of the prolific Miike Takashi's movies are too tough for his fellow Japanese. Hired to make genre pictures, he reshapes the material with a wickedly black wit. It's time the international film world took notice, says Tony Rayns
Selected reviews
Film of the Month: Cradle Will Rock
Tim Robbins' backstage quasi-musical about the ill-fated Orson Welles production of Cradle Will Rock joyfully recreates an era while saluting the men and women involved. By Philip Strick
Reviews in this issue:
- American Psycho
- Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
- Brother
- Claire Dolan
- Film of the Month: Cradle Will Rock
- L'Ennui
- Erin Brokovich
- Galaxy Quest
- Ghost Dog The Way of the Samurai
- Hanging Up
- Hurlyburly
- In All Innocence
- Kevin & Perry Go Large
- La Nouvelle Eve
- The Million Dollar Hotel
- Mission to Mars
- Of Freaks and Men
- Pippi Longstocking
- Rien sur Robert
- Scream 3
- Sex The Annabel Chong Story
- SLC Punk!
- Sunshine
- Trick