Sight and Sound

Features A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS : Post-Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson is everywhere - in six movies this year including The Long Kiss Goodnight. Is he Allowed to be more than the white man's buddy? By Manohla Dargis = 6 FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL : The Iranian fabulist director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's vibrant new film Gabbeh has joined the list of those banned in Iran. He talks about his career with Hadani Ditmars = 10 RISING BELOW VULGARITY : As Spice Girls play at being Supervixens and Russ MEyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is released on video, Gordon Burn questions the Russ Meyer myth = 14 THE MEDIA DO INFLUENCE US : In a break with the academic liberal orthodoxy, researchers David Miller and Greg Philo argue that violence in the media must have some effect = 18 EDGING CLOSE TO THE BONE : Scots artist-writer-director John Byrne is making his extraordinary first film. A L Kennedy reports from the set of The Slab Boys = 22 G FOR GAGS : Bugs Bunny to Woody Allen; sight gags to parody. By Andy Medhurst = 26 GHOSTS FROM THE CIVIL WAR : Michael Collins has provoked heated debate. Screenwriter Ronan Bennett and poet Tom Paulin argue over the film, Irish history and violence = 30 Regulars EDITORIAL : A new settlement = 3 BUSINESS : Larry Flynt and porn; Scorsese; Russia and the movies = 4 THE BOX : Common as Muck; C4's treasure; MTV Mandarin = 34 LETTERS : The Wild Bunch; gangsters; the Italians = 64 COVER : Samuel L. Jackson photographed by Silvia Otte／Outline／Katz Film Reviews American Buffalo = 36 Beautiful Girls = 37 Blue Villa, The／Un bruit qui rend fou = 38 bonheur est dans le pré, Le = 39 bruit qui rend fou, Un／The Blue Villa = 38 Crimetime = 40 Crow City of Angels, The = 41 Day of the Beast, The／El día de la bestia = 42 día de la bestia, El／The Day of the Beast = 42 Fan, The = 43 Fear = 44 First Wives Club, The = 45 Fled = 46 Gabbeh = 47 Home for the Holidays = 47 I Shot Andy Warhol = 48 Kansas City = 49 Kids in the Hall Brain Candy = 51 Long Kiss Goodnight, The = 52 Mr Reliable(a True Story) = 53 Tromeo & Juliet = 54 True Blue = 55 Van, The = 56 Video Reviews Tom Tunney and Geoffrey Macnab on this month's video releases = 58 PRIVATE VIEW : Chazz Palminteri on good and evil in The Magnificent Seven = 61

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