Sight and Sound

Features L.A. LURID : More than a beefy neo-noir, L.A. Confidential is probably the best cop thriller since Chinatown. Amy Taubin talks to Curtis Hanson about getting it so right = 6 THE THOUGHTS OF CHAIRMAN ALAN : For Alan Parker, the British Film Institute was once a "petty fiefdom", now he's its chairman. He talks to Nick James about what he thinks the BFI does best = 10 HOLLYWOOD BERLIN : Why do films made under the Nazis still appeal? Thomas Elsaesser traces images of glamour and the good life from The Blue Angel to Münchhausen = 14 BODY TALK : In the new G.I. Jane, Demi Moore shows her muscles as a US Navy SEAL. But is her shape-shifting purely about image control, asks Linda Ruth Williams = 18 A FOR ROAD : From How It Feels to Be Run Over to Thelma & Louise and beyond, Leslie Dick motorvates through movie motels and lost highways = 22 BOOKS SPECIAL : Robin Swicord parties down with top 60s screenwriters; plus our quarterly round-up of the latest books = 28 Regulars EDITORIAL : Development hell = 3 BUSINESS : Depardieu Directs; voicing Babe; Dietrich biopic = 4 THE BOX : Damien Hirst; A Dance to the Music of Time; Oprah 2000 = 34 LETTERS : Cassavetes' Shadows; television as ghetto; small-town squabble = 64 COVER : Kim Basinger photograph by Merrick Morton Film Reviews Chasing Amy = 36 Darklands = 37 Excess Baggage = 37 Face／Off = 38 Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee／Smilla's Feeling for Snow = 52 Gambler, The = 40 Game, The = 41 G.I. Jane = 42 Inventing the Abbotts = 43 Keep the Aspidistra Flying = 44 L.A. Confidential = 45 Lawn Dogs = 46 Life Less Ordinary, A = 47 Ma vie en rose = 48 Nothing to Lose = 48 Peacemaker, The = 49 Simple Wish, A = 51 Smalltime = 52 Smilla's Feeling for Snow／Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee = 52 Snow White A Tale of Terror = 53 Swan Princess The Secret of the Castle, The = 54 Up on the Roof = 55 Welcome to Sarajevo = 56 Will it Snow for Christmas?／Y'aura t'il de la neige à Noël? = 57 Y'aura t'il de la neige à Noël?／Will it Snow for Christmas? = 57 Video Reviews Tom Tunney and Geoffrey Macnab on this month's video releases = 58 PRIVATE VIEW : Chasing Amy director Kevin Smith on Fred Zinneman's A Man for All Seasons = 61

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