February 2002
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Features
Before The Rain
Akira Kurosawa's contemporary urban dramas use the long hot summer as a reflection of social meltdown and emotional global warming. By Philip Kemp.
Northern Exposure
In a culture that's gone from oral tradition to cinema in one generation, the Inuit myth-making epic Atanarjuat The Fast Runner has a freshness and authenticity the likes of Star Wars lacks, says S F Said.
Nice 'N' Easy
With 1960's Ocean's Eleven Sinatra's Rat Pack proved they could make a rotten Vegas heist movie. Now there's a slick, star-studded remake. Shawn Levy wonders why and asks if George and Brad can ever be as cool as Frank and Dean.
Trimming Tolkien
By now you know that Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring succeeds spectacularly in capturing Tolkien's mix of gothic dread and calculated feyness. But would Tolkien have liked it, wonders Graham Fuller.
Where The Mild Things Are
Monsters, Inc. harks back to the golden age of Disney storytelling with a dash of postmodern irony thrown in. By Paul Wells.
Books Special
Our quarterly round-up of the latest titles.
Selected reviews
Film of the Month: The Lady & the Duke
Why has Eric Rohmer turned to historical drama and anti-realism, asks Philip Horne.
Black Hawk Down
Vanilla SkyReviews in this issue:
- Affair of the Necklace, The
- American Outlaws
- Behind Enemy Lines
- Black Hawk Down
- Body, The
- Cool and Crazy
- Fluffer, The
- Glass House, The
- Good Times
- Gosford Park
- Iris
- Lava
- Long Time Dead
- Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring, The
- Lovely Rita
- Made
- Monsters, Inc.
- Night Shift
- Nobody Someday
- O
- Princess Diaries, The
- Rat Race
- Soul Survivors
- Spy Game
- Film of the Month: The Lady & the Duke
- Training Day
- Vanilla Sky
- Waking Life