May 2001
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Features
Critical Reading
Written on the Wind - Michael Eaton asks: what can Hollywood's ever-present scandal tell us about the faultlines in American society?
Pup Fiction
Amores perros looks at life in Mexico City through the eyes of a myopic ex-revolutionary, an amputee model and a pack of dogs. Edward Lawrenson celebrates the film's achievement and Bernardo Pérez Soler talks to debut director Alejandro González Iñárritu
Paradise Lust
Nicolas Cage is as good as ever in the war romance Captain Corelli's Mandolin, but why is the film nostalgic for old-style Hollywood, and why is the US so keen on the Europudding, asks José Arroyo
Magnificent Obsesssion
Chantal Akerman's rereading of Proust transfers her own obsessive nature to a male character who wants to get inside his lover's mind. She talks to Nick James about her new film La Captive
Urban Legends: Paris
In 1910 the Pathé rooster crowed supreme and 10 years later Feuillade had redefined French cinema. In between the industry almost collapsed. Richard Abel charts the decade when France gave the US a run for its money
Books Special
Our quarterly round-up of the latest titles
Selected reviews
Film of the Month: Bread and Roses
Ken Loach's latest film is his first set in Los Angeles, but this exposé of labour relations in the City of Dreams is no Hollywood sell out, argues Peter Matthews
Bamboozled
Code UnknownReviews in this issue:
- 15 Minutes
- About Adam
- Aimée and Jaguar
- Amores perros
- Another Life
- Bamboozled
- Boesman and Lena
- Film of the Month: Bread and Roses
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- Code Unknown
- Dish, The
- Goodbye Charlie Bright
- Goût des autres, Le
- Hijack Stories
- The Hole
- The King Is Alive
- The Mexican
- Miss Congeniality
- Monkeybone
- Tailor of Panama, The
- Terrorist, The
- The Captive
- Tigerland
- When Brendan Met Trudy