September 2001

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Features

#Gorilla Warfare

The new Planet of the Apes dresses its big stars in elaborate simian costumes and features cutting-edge action scenes. But has Tim Burton lost his way, asks Andrew O'Hehir.

#One Deadly Summit

Patrick Kennedy accompanies Gillo Pontecorvo and a group of Italian directors through the anti-G8 demonstrations at Genoa as they develop new takes on the political-protest film.

The Dream Life of Androids

A.I. Artificial Intelligence's chilling tale has a robot boy bonded forever to his human mother lost in a world of mechanical sex slaves. J. Hoberman reviews Kubrick's last stand and Spielberg's first art film.

Riddle of the Sands

The tortuous history of adapting Frank Herbert's classic Dune has been more a case of good looks than good storytelling. Philip Strick assesses a new video version and revisits the David Lynch epic that nearly ended the director's career.

Mid-Summer Mavericks

The Edinburgh Film Festival screens the best of art cinema alongside a strong documentary strand. Paul Cronin talks to Haskell Wexler about the anti-Vietnam 60s of Medium Cool, plus Zwigoff's Ghost World and new films from Breillat, Kötting and Tsai Ming-Liang.

Urban Legends: Rome

Fellini's Rome in the 50s was a city of glamour and cosmopolitan chic, its in-crowd the objects of envy and desire. David Forgacs revels in the sweet life and looks beyond to an industry that attracted American money and Catholic reproach.

Selected reviews

#Film of the Month: Tears of the Black Tiger

A camp Thai Western mixes singing cowboys and forbidden love. By Edward Buscombe

#At the Height of Summer

#Moulin Rouge

Reviews in this issue:

  • Animal Attraction
  • At the Height of Summer
  • Battle Royale
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
  • Final Fantasy the Spirits Within
  • Greenfingers
  • Heartbreakers
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • Iron Ladies, The
  • Josie and the Pussycats
  • Jurassic Park III
  • Knights Tale, A
  • Lucky Break
  • Moulin Rouge
  • Secret, Le
  • Suspicious River
  • Swordfish
  • Film of the Month: Tears of the Black Tiger
  • The Colour of Lies
  • Time for the Drunken Horses, A
  • Urban Ghost Story
  • What's Cooking?
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