Sight and Sound

Features READY TO EXPLODE : With Shallow Grave and the new film Jude, Christopher Eccleston shows that he's a tough new kind of actor. By Lizzie Francke = 6 NAKED MIRACLES : In Breaking the Waves, Lars von Trier takes a sailor, a virgin and a romantic landscape and turns out a harrowing tale of faith. The director talks to Stig Björkman = 10 FRIENDS OF YOURS : Friends is simply joyful, the best comedy of the 90s, argues Andy Medhurst = 16 WELLES AND 'TOUCH OF EVIL' : Hard drugs, zoot suits, racism and wonderful film-making: Peter Wollen on a great Orson Welles film = 20 EVERYTHING WILL BE O.K. : In Moscow you buy cars at the cinema; video and television show the new Russian films. Julian Graffy reports from Moscow = 24 E FOR EFFECTS : How did they do that? Cinema's box of tricks from the fire of Gone With the Wind through Towering Inferno to the new Star Wars. By Richard Holliss = 26 Regulars EDITORIAL : Against purity = 3 BUSINESS : Eszterhas and Smithee; de Klerk and Michael Caine = 4 THE BOX : Tabloid TV; AbFab goes cable; television satire lives = 32 LETTERS : Se7en; Sayles; The Wild Bunch = 64 COVER : Christopher Eccleston photographed by Mike Smith Film Reviews And Life Goes On...／Zendegi Va Digar Hich... = 34 Boys = 35 Breaking the Waves = 36 Brothers in Trouble = 37 Conte d'été／A Summer's Tale = 53 Courage Under Fire = 38 Don't Forget You're Going to Die／N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir = 39 Dracula Dead and Loving It = 39 Guantanamera = 40 Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, The = 41 Jack = 42 Jane Eyre = 43 John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. = 44 Jude = 45 Khaneh-Je Doost Kojast?／Where is My Friend's House? = 55 Last Dance = 46 Lone Star = 47 N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir／Don't Forget You're Going to Die = 39 Nutty Professor, The = 48 Original Gangstas = 49 Silence of the Hams／Il silenzio dei prosciutti = 50 silenzio dei prosciutti, Il／Silence of the Hams = 50 Striptease = 51 Stupids, The = 52 Summer's Tale, A／Conte d'été = 53 Time To Kill, A = 54 Where is My Friend's House?／Khaneh-je Doost Kojast? = 55 Zendegi Va Digar Hich...／And Life Goes On... = 34 Video Reviews Tom Tunney and Geoffrey Macnab on this month's video releases = 58 PRIVATE VIEW : Hossein Amini, the screenwriter of Jude, on Detour = 61

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