Sight and Sound

Features INFINITE CITY : Luc Besson's The Fifth Element has the look of a new kind of sci-fi. Nigel Floyd talks to special-effects supremo Mark Stetson and Stella Bruzzi assesses the costumes of Jean-Paul Gaultier = 6 THE KAURISMÄKI EFFECT : Aki Kaurismäki's new Drifting Clouds is a comedy with a happy ending, but it might not make you laugh. Jonathan Romney talks to the director about gloomy gags and beautiful losers = 10 ROAD RAGE : Why are Britons among the last to be allowed to see Cronenberg's Crash? Mark Kermode and Julian Petley chart the history of a very British press campaign = 16 THE THRILLER INSIDE ME : Screenwriter Larry Gross on his new adaptation of pulp writer Jim Thompson's disturbing This World, Then the Fireworks = 20 ME AND HITCH : Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain) remembers working with Hitchcock on The Birds and Marnie. The complete journal = 24 M FOR MARKETING : The search for the perfect pitch, from Valentino to Trainspotting. By Justin Wyatt = 38 Regulars OBITUARY : Gabriel Figueroa = 3 BUSINESS : Cage for Superman; Fear and Loathing on film; re-release fever = 4 THE BOX : Michael Jackson moves house; Jimmy McGovern's new dramas; Ellen comes out = 42 LETTERS : Wavelength; Abel Ferrara; Twin Town = 72 Film Reviews Absolute Power = 44 Anna Karenina = 45 Au loin s'en vont les nuages／Drifting Clouds／Kauas pilvet／karkaavat = 51 Beavis and Butt-head Do America = 46 Big Night = 47 Crash = 48 Daayraa／The Square Circle = 64 Dangerous Ground = 49 Devil's Own, The = 50 Drifting Clouds／Kauas pilvet karkaavat／Au loin s'en vont les nuages = 51 Gridlock'd = 52 Hommes femmes Mode d'emploi／Men, Women: User's Manual = 57 It Takes Two = 53 Johns = 53 Jungle 2 Jungle = 54 Kauas pilvet karkaavat／Au loin s'en vont les nuages／Drifting Clouds = 51 Killer a Journal of Murder = 55 Macbeth = 56 Men, Women: User's Manual／Hommes femmes Mode d'emploi = 57 Microcosmos／Microcosmos Le Peuple de l'herbe = 58 Microcosmos Le Peuple de l'herbe／Microcosmos = 58 Moll Flanders = 58 Mon homme = 59 Passione, La = 60 Regarde les hommes tomber／See How They Fall = 62 Relic, The = 61 See How They Fall／Regarde les hommes tomber = 62 Space Truckers = 62 Spitfire Grill, The = 63 Square Circle, The／Daayraa = 64 Trigger Happy = 65 Video Reviews Tom Tunney and Geoffrey Macnab on this month's video releases = 66 PRIVATE VIEW : Director Darius Merjui on The Seventh Seal = 69

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