December 2003

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Features

#Killing Me Softly

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself; a new film from Dogme director Lone Scherfig, invests its themes of death and bereavement with unexpected humour. By Geoffrey Macnab.

#The White Stuff

Cremaster's a five-film series by Matthew Barney that reflects on sexual differentiation and the creative process. Mark Cousins celebrates its completion; Francis McKee talks to the director.

What A Carve Up!

Horror films endlessly devour and regurgitate characters and ideas. Mark Kermode asks what new versions of 1970s shockers The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Alien might mean for today's audiences. Plus Kim Newman celebrates horror film-makers' independence.

Crazy About The Weather

The Dream Life, a new book by J. Hoberrnan, relives the movies and mores of the 1960s. David Thomson looks back on an era when cinema embodied our dreads and dreams.

Selected reviews

#Film of the Month: [One] Cavale

The trilogy One, Two and Three follows interlinked characters and stories across a thriller, a comedy and a melodrama. Edward Lawrenson is intrigued.

#Decasia

#In the Cut

Reviews in this issue:

  • Bollywood Queen
  • Cabin Fever
  • Cinemania
  • Concert for George
  • Cremaster 1
  • Cremaster 4
  • Decasia
  • The Five Obstructions
  • House of 1000 Corpses
  • In America
  • In the Cut
  • The Italian Job
  • Kill Bill Vol I
  • Krámpack
  • Love Actually
  • The Mother
  • Mr In-between
  • Mystic River
  • Nói Albinói
  • Octane
  • Film of the Month: [One] Cavale
  • Seabiscuit
  • Secondhand Lions
  • Taking Sides
  • Ten Minutes Older The Trumpet
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  • thirteen
  • [Three] Après la vie
  • Together
  • Traces of a Dragon Jackie Chan & His Lost Family
  • [Two] Un couple épatant
  • Underworld
  • White Oleander
  • XX/XY
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