May 2002
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Features
Mother Courage
Jodie Foster has specialised in playing single parents and abandoned children. Linda Ruth Williams watches David Fincher's Panic Room and discovers why.
Welcome To The Circle. Bang Bang.
Iain Sinclair nominates King of New York as one of the all-time top-ten films. Is it because of Christopher Walken's managed neurosis or Abel Ferrara's vision of the century's ultimate city in meltdown?
Boom Raider
In Biggie and Tupac Nick Broomfield investigates the gang murders of two of hip-hop's biggest stars. He talks to Damon Wise about fear, death and camera equipment.
Imagine Asia
Going South
We've all heard of Bollywood, but other areas of India produce equally stunning arthouse and commercial films in great numbers. Naman Ramachandran investigates.
Hired Hand
Hackney-born Asif Kapadia has shot an almost wordless magic-realist epic in the Indian desert. He tells Nick James what inspired The Warrior.
Books Special
Our quarterly round-up of the latest titles.
Selected reviews
Film of the Month: Business of Strangers, The
Charlotte O'Sullivan rates the corporate cool of The Business of Strangers
Baise-moi
Majestic, TheReviews in this issue:
- 24 Hour Party People
- About a Boy
- Ali G Indahouse
- Baise-moi
- Bend It Like Beckham
- Film of the Month: Business of Strangers, The
- Closet, The
- Count of Monte Cristo, The
- Dark Blue World
- Delbaran
- Dog Soldiers
- Dust
- Hart's War
- Hotel
- I'm Going Home
- Ice Age
- Life as a House
- Majestic, The
- One, The
- Panic Room
- Revelation
- Sex and Lucía
- The Warrior
- Thunderpants
- Tosca
- Warm Water under the Red Bridge