June 2005

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Features

#The Godard Interview: I, A Man Of The Image

The upbeat mood of Godard's Notre musique, in which war is hell, Sarajevo a purgatory and heaven a lakeside idyll, was not built to last. "It's exhausted," the director tells Michael Witt.

#The Fickle Finger Of Fame

No one better represents the pro actor's contempt for fame than Jerry Lewis. Praised by French critics as an auteur but viewed with suspicion here as a rubber-faced void, Lewis is the essence of star angst, says Jonathan Romney.

Colour Me Noir

Frank Miller's brutal comic-book series Sin City uses expressionist graphics to convey its characters' darkest fears. And in Robert Rodriguez's CGI-tooled adaptation it's forever night, says Graham Fuller. Plus The director tells Mark Olsen why his actors prefer to perform alone in front of the greenscreen.

In the Name of the Father

Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen weaves psychoanalysis and myth into a realist drama. Is it France's answer to Woody Allen and Hitchcock, asks Muriel Zagha.

Anatomy of a Skin Flick

Inside Deep Throat charts the story of a cheap porn flick that became a cultural and political cause célèbre. Linda Ruth Williams recalls the heady seductions of porno chic.

Close Encounter

Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin is a ravishing film about the after-effects of child abuse. He talks about its imagery with SF Said

Selected reviews

#Film of the Month: Moolaadé

Veteran African film-maker Ousmane Sembéne's Moolaadé takes a stand against female excision. But it's far from a simple polemic, says Philip Kemp.

#Five

#Sin City

Reviews in this issue:

  • Adam & Paul
  • Amityville Horror, The
  • Around the Bend
  • Baadasssss!
  • Bombón El perro
  • Café Lumière
  • Cat Returns, The
  • Clifford's Really Big Movie
  • Common Thread, A
  • Five
  • Five
  • Friday Night Lights
  • Guerrilla The Taking of Patty Hearst
  • Guess Who
  • Heimat 3 A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings Part 3 The Russians Are Coming
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
  • Inside Deep Throat
  • It's All Gone Pete Tong
  • Kingdom of Heaven
  • League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, The
  • Man of the House
  • Mondays in the Sun
  • Film of the Month: Moolaadé
  • Notre musique
  • Part 4 Everybody Is Doing Well
  • Part 5 The Heirs
  • Part 6 Farewell to Schabbach
  • Private
  • Sahara
  • Sin City
  • Sin City
  • Stander
  • Strings
  • Thirteen Conversations about One Thing
  • Wedding Date, The
  • What tHe #$*! Dq wS (k)pow!?
  • xXx2 The Next Level
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