March 2003

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Features

#Magnificent Obsession

With his new film Far from Heaven director Todd Haynes, like Fassbinder before him, has been inspired to new heights by Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows.

#Self-made Heroes

Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation puts the self-obsession of the screenwriter centre stage. Henry Bean thinks it's something to celebrate. Plus Michael Eaton talks Robert McKee with Brian Cox.

#Interview with Todd Haynes

Nick James discusses the Sirk style with Todd Haynes.

Keeping It Clean

The Magdalene Sisters exposes the church's virtual enslavement of young Irishwomen with clear-eyed outrage. Nick James talks to writer-director Peter Mullan about Catholicism, cleanliness and community theatre.

Gamblers Anonymous

Neil Jordan's remake of Bob le flambeur gives a global spin to a film that already wedded American gangster style to a very French sense of place. Ginette Vincendeau on the cultural identity of The Good Thief.

Obituaries

Farewell to 2002s roll of lost and lamented. Compiled by Bob Baker. Plus tributes to Naseem Banu, Phyllis Calvert, James Cobum, J. Lee Thompson and Andre de Toth.

Selected reviews

#Film of the Month: Auto Focus

Charting the double life of US sitcom star Bob Crane, Paul Schrader's Auto Focus is a darker antidote to Boogie Nights. By Linda Ruth Williams.

#The Son

#Jackass The Movie

Reviews in this issue:

  • Adaptation
  • Analyze That
  • Film of the Month: Auto Focus
  • Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  • Derrida
  • Elling
  • Far from Heaven
  • Frida
  • The Good Thief
  • Grateful Dawg
  • The Hours
  • Innocence
  • Irreversible
  • Jackass The Movie
  • Japón
  • The Magdalene Sisters
  • Maid in Manhattan
  • The One and Only
  • Solaris
  • The Son
  • The Tuxedo
  • 25th Hour
  • Undercover Brother
  • The Wild Thomberrys Movie
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