July 2004

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Features

#Mission Improbable

Michael Moore hopes Palme d'Or winner Fahrenheit 9/11 will provoke the downfall of the Bush regime. B. Ruby Rich thinks he needs to learn a trick or two about rhetoric.

#Our Friends From Turin

The Best of Youth, a six-hour drama made for Italian television, sets family dynamics and brotherly strife against 40 years of political change. By David Forgacs.

In The Mood For Mascara

This year's Cannes mixed politics, child abuse, drag and a dream of 1960s Hong Kong. By Nick James. Plus Jonathan Romney on the rise of digital and Sukdev Sandhu on how 9 Songs sexed up the British press.

Satire With Tweezers

As the Coen brothers' The Ladykillers is released Ben Walters talks to storyboard artist J.Todd Anderson. Plus Philip Kemp dissects the satire of Mackendrick's Ealing original.

Desert Storm

The Alamo, a new version of the tale of Texas' finest hour, has played badly in the war-obsessed US. J.Hoberman finds out why.

Selected reviews

#Film of the Month: One for the Road

One for the Road captures its protagonists' queasy sway from bar-room camaraderie to unfocused aggression. And it's funny, says Liese Spencer.

#A Silence between Two Thoughts

#Troy

Reviews in this issue:

  • Anything Else
  • Blue Gate Crossing
  • Broken Lizard's Club Dread
  • Carmen
  • Confidences trop intimes
  • Connie and Carla
  • The Day after Tomorrow
  • Deep Blue
  • Facing Window
  • Godsend
  • The Hours of the Day
  • Jersey Girl
  • The Ladykillers
  • Laws of Attraction
  • Mean Girls
  • The Miracle of Bern
  • Nathalie...
  • Film of the Month: One for the Road
  • Our House
  • The Prince & Me
  • Raising Helen
  • The Return
  • A Silence between Two Thoughts
  • Sokaate beine do feks
  • The Story of the Weeping Camel
  • Troy
  • Van Helsing
  • Vozvras cenje
  • Walking Tall
  • Where's Firuze?
  • You Got Served
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