October 2000
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Features
Send In The Clowns
In the 1979 television thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, middle-aged men in darkened rooms plot each other's downfall and bemoan the loss of Empire. Rob White is enthralled.
Thieves Like Us
Inspired by the music industry's hounding of Napster, Hollywood is preparing for a stand-off with internet video pirates. Danny Birchall assesses its chances. Plus interview with MPAA boss and Barbra Streisand fan Jack Valenti.
Beauty's Slow Fade
The House of Mirth, a sumptuous adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel, marks a triumphant change of direction for Terence Davies. Philip Horne explains its virtues and talks etiquette and music with the director.
The Beat-up Kid
No one divides critics quite like Harmony Korine. But it's his celebrity image the press are obsessed with, not his film-making talents, argues Danny Leigh.
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Werner Herzog drew on a true-life incident for his 1974 film The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. But its tentative, dreamlike drift shrouds even the most concrete of facts in mystery, argues Jonathan Romney.
Selected reviews
Film of the Month: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
With O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the Coen Brothers take an Odyssean trip to their folk roots. Kevin Jackson approves.
ShaftReviews in this issue:
- Billy Elliot
- Cherry Falls
- Dancer in the Dark
- Elephant Juice
- Going Off Big Time
- Gossip
- Hollow Man
- Hotel Splendide
- L'Humanite
- Julien Donkey-Boy
- Keeping the Faith
- Love & Sex
- The Luzhin Defence
- Me, Myself & Irene
- Miss Julie
- Nightfall
- Nurse Betty
- Film of the Month: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Play It to the Bone
- Scary Movie
- Secrets of the Heart
- Shaft
- Shanghai Noon
- Snatch
- Space Cowboys
- Titus
- Twin Falls Idaho
- The Wind Will Carry Us