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

Reviews 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 LucĂ­a
  • The Warrior
  • Thunderpants
  • Tosca
  • Warm Water under the Red Bridge
Last Updated: 20 Dec 2011