March 2008

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Features

#Boys' Own Stories

In the last decade a talented collection of players - including Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell and Owen Wilson - have brought their own brand of improvisational comedy and wry humour to the big screen. It's time we threw out the old categories of highbrow and lowbrow and settled down to enjoy what Indiewood - or the Frat Pack - has to offer, says Henry K. Miller

#The Killer Inside

Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist is a movie that refuses to court its audience with easy offers of comfort or compassion. David Thomson explores its cold heart

Women Behaving Badly

Noah Baumbach has followed The Squid and the Whale with Margot at the Wedding, a caustic comedy of family disfunction starring Frat Packer Jack Black, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. He talks to Edward Lawrenson about putting intimacy on screen

Diy Hard

Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind and Garth Jennings' Son of Rambow reference film-making of the 1980s with a mix of nostalgia and humour. But cinema's power to provide a creative outlet and sense of community is just as relevant to the internet age, says Ben Walters

Stand Up And Be Counted

The Frat Pack weren't the first offbeat TV comedians to pursue careers in the movies. Kim Newman traces their ancestry back to the 1950s via National Lampoon's Animal House and Saturday Night Live

The American Way

In My Blueberry Nights Wong Kar-Wai parlays his trademark concern with character and mood to track a woman's journey across the United States. He tells Tony Rayns about the problems and passions that informed his first English-language movie

Ruffs And Fumbles

The release of The Other Boleyn Girl demonstrates the enduring power of the Tudor costume drama. Is the genre just an excuse for sanctioned sex and savagery or do its characters still resonate, asks David Jays

Obituaries

Bob Mastrangelo recalls the men and women of cinema who died in 2007. PLUS Nick James, David Robinson, Duncan Petrie, Ginette Vincendeau and Guido Bonsaver pay their respects to Norman Mailer, Deborah Kerr, Freddie Francis, Jean-Claude Brialy and Carlo Ponti

Selected reviews

#Film of the Month: Diary of the Dead

#DVD review: The Naked Prey

The Naked Prey may not be politically correct, but it's a key piece of independent US film-making, says Tim Lucas

#The Edge of Heaven

#Helvetica

Reviews in this issue:

  • The 11th Hour
  • 27 Dresses
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks
  • Annie Leibovitz Life through a Lens
  • Arctic Tale
  • Asterix at the Olympic Games
  • AVPR Aliens Vs Predator Requiem
  • The Bank Job
  • Battle for Haditha
  • Be Kind Rewind
  • The Boss of It All
  • The Bucket List
  • Change of Address
  • Charlie Wilson's War
  • Film of the Month: Diary of the Dead
  • The Edge of Heaven
  • Four Minutes
  • Freebird
  • Frontier(s)
  • Helvetica
  • I Am Legend
  • Intimate Enemies
  • Man of the Year
  • Margot at the Wedding
  • My Blueberry Nights
  • DVD review: The Naked Prey
  • National Treasure Book of Secrets
  • Penelope
  • Princesses
  • Sharkwater
  • Shot in Bombay
  • St Trinian's
  • Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • U2 3D
  • The Ugly Duckling and Me
  • W?Z
  • Walk Hard The Dewey Cox Story
  • We Are Together
  • The Workshop
  • Zoo
Last Updated: 20 Dec 2011