April 2005

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Features

#Tell It To The Camera

Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation stitches together home movies from his childhood onwards into a no-budget documentary of wrenching emotional honesty and visual power. B. Ruby Rich reports.

#Theatre of Complicity

Catherine Deneuve has made an art of appearing not to act, whether embodying troubled sexuality or carefree spontaneity. She's the best since Lillian Gish, says Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.

Double Trouble

In Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda tragedy and comedy wrestle each other for supremacy. It's set in Woody's Manhattan with Woody's kvetching - but does it work without Woody's tragi-comic face, asks Howard Jacobson. Plus Allen tells Sheila Johnston why he hates sitting around home.

Madonna Of The Mules

María Full of Grace humanises the plight of Columbian drug mules through a story based on a young woman whom director Joshua Marston met in a New York Café. He talks to Ali Jaafar.

Maximum Elmore

Elmore Leonard's hardboiled, dialogue-driven stories offer film adapters a deceptively easy ride. Woody Hurt pursues a trail that culminates in the new Be Cool. Plus crime writer George Pelecanos celebrates his top Leonard films.

Selected reviews

#Film of the Month: 9 Songs

Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs delivers sex and rock 'n' roll from the wastes of Antarctica. But does the earth move, asks Linda Ruth Williams.

#Constantine

#Life Is a Miracle

Reviews in this issue:

  • Andrew & Jeremy Get Married
  • The Assassination of Richard Nixon
  • Beauty Shop
  • Boogeyman
  • Bullet Boy
  • Casshern
  • Constantine
  • Don't Move
  • The Duel
  • The Edukators
  • First Daughter
  • Hitch
  • Hostage
  • Hotel Rawanda
  • In Your Hands
  • Kill Your Idols
  • Life Is a Miracle
  • Lovelorn/Gonul yarasi
  • Machuca
  • Mean Creek
  • Monster Man
  • New Town Original
  • Film of the Month: 9 Songs
  • Pooh's Heffalump Movie
  • The Rage in Placid Lake
  • Shabd
  • Son of the Mask
  • Tarnation
  • The Key to the House
  • Valiant
  • Wild Side
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