January 2001
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Features
His Nibs
Quills portrays the Marquis de Sade as "the Hannibal Lecter of literature". Richard Falcon talks sex and censorship with its controversial director Philip Kaufman
In Bed With The Film Council
The Film Council's clean-slate approach promises all things to all film-makers. Nick James probes the rhetoric to find out what new British cinema might be
Thieves On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
Sexy Beast is that rarest of creatures: a first-rate British gangster movie starring Ray Winstone. Nick James talks to the man who pulled it off - debut director Jonathan Glazer
Gone To Earth
With its unabashed romanticism, haunting visuals and epic sweep, John Boorman's Excalibur is one of the few British films to take myth seriously. By Philip Kemp
Gimme Shelter
Set around Iran's mountainous frontier with Iraq, Samira Makhmalbaf's new film Blackboards inhabits the ambiguous borderland between surrealism and neorealism. By Laura Mulvey
Refuseniks
Veteran French new-waver Agnès Varda took to the road to film rural and urban misfits. Chris Darke explains why for Varda, DV is simply déjà vu
Selected reviews
Film of the Month: Almost Famous
Almost Famous gets the music right, but show me the sex and drugs, says John Wrathall
Blackboards
Cecil B. DementedReviews in this issue:
- 102 Dalmatians
- Film of the Month: Almost Famous
- Art of War, The
- Blackboards
- Cecil B. Demented
- Charlie's Angels
- Confessions of a Trickbaby
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Destinées sentimentales, Les
- Drôle de Félix
- Escort, The
- Fidélité, La
- Grinch, The
- Hamlet
- Home movies
- Little Nicky
- Man Who Cried, The
- Meet the Parents
- Merlin The Return
- Original Kings of Comedy, The
- Ready to Rumble
- Saltwater
- Second Generation
- Small Time Crooks
- Urban Legends Final Cut
- Watcher, The