Sight and Sound

Features 12 DISTINCT SPECIES OF MANIACAL LAUGHTER : Tommy Lee Jones, star of Men in Black and Volcano, breathes life into hardware and gives depth to instant cameos. Peter Matthews surveys a scene-stealer's career = 6 IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER : With Unhook the Stars, a vehicle for his mother Gena Rowlands and Marisa Tomei, Nick Cassavetes emerges from the shadow of a famous father. By Chris Darke = 10 PARADISE REGAINED : After Les Enfants du paradis, Marcel Carné's later films were damned with faint praise. It's time to reassess his reputation, argues Ginette Vincendeau = 12 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY : Recreating 60s Soho and the tortured love life of painter Francis Bacon, John Maybury's Love Is the Devil will be no ordinary British bio-pic. Set report by Geoffrey Macnab = 18 TEAR GAS AND ETIQUETTE : Film-maker Michael Benson experiences censorship and fear at the Seoul Documentary Film and Video Festival = 22 N FOR NOIR : Noir is a girl, a gun and a shroud of darkness. But is it a style, a genre, a mood or a movement? Manohla Dargis on film noir, from You Only Live Once to L.A. Confidential = 28 Regulars EDITORIAL : Territorial waters = 3 BUSINESS : Orson Welles' comeback; Eastwood's tourist trouble; Eszterhas' Smithee folly = 4 THE BOX : ER live; US Cracker; Hornblower sails again = 32 LETTERS : Crash and India; where is Vertigo?; P for Pedantic = 64 COVER : Tommy Lee Jones photographed by Davis Factor Film Reviews Adrenalin Fear the Rush = 34 Alive and Kicking／Indian Summer = 35 Anaconda = 35 Chamber, The = 36 Cinquième Elément, Le／The Fifth Element = 39 Con Air = 37 Décroches les étoiles／Unhook the Stars = 57 Entertaining Angles The Dorothy Day Story = 38 Fifth Element, The／Le Cinquième Elément = 39 Get on the Bus = 40 High School High = 41 Hongfan Qu／Rumble in the Bronx = 51 Indian Summer／Alive and Kicking = 35 Intimate Relations = 42 Kama Sutra A Tale of Love = 43 Lost World Jurassic Park, The = 44 love jones = 46 Madame Butterfly = 47 Marvin's Room = 48 Murder at 1600 = 49 Private Parts = 49 Rumble in the Bronx／Hongfan Qu = 51 Sebastian = 52 Sélect Hotel = 52 Shadow Conspiracy = 53 Skin & Bone = 54 Swingers = 55 Unforgettable = 56 Unhook the Stars／Décroches les étoiles = 57 Video Reviews Tom Tunney and Geoffrey Macnab on this month's video releases = 58 PRIVATE VIEW : Director／screenwriter Philip Goodhew on Jude = 61

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