Sight and Sound

Features THE MOUTH AND THE METHOD : Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown brings together blaxploitation and Elmore Leonard pulp. He explains why he's a "method writer" and why he's not afraid to use the 'N' word. interview by Erik Bauer = 6 MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS : Visions of the atomic bomb and the Virgin Mary haunt the killer child of Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy. Can we make sense of his killings, asks Charlotte O'Sullivan = 12 THE NATURAL : TwentyFourSeven Sees young British director Shane Meadows adapt his DIY handicam approach to a shiny black-and-white boxing movie. Geoffrey Macnab talks to him about staying local and just doing it = 14 SAM FULLER PERFECT PITCH : The late Sam Fuller, director of Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss, was the last of the Hollywood directors who had really lived a life. Documentary-maker Adam Simon salutes him = 18 V FOR VIDEO : From video nasties to video diaries, from surveillance to the handicam, video has permanently changed the way we live and the way the movie industry works. By Richard Falcon = 24 OBITUARIES : 1997's late lamented plus featured obituaries for China's King Hu, EastEnders' Julia Smith, James Stewart and experimental film-maker Shirley Clarke = 28 Regulars EDITORIAL : Patronage games = 3 THE DEAL : Return of Mickey Mouse; Blade Runner sequel; British Oscar nominations = 4 TELEVISION : Censorship and drama; pop science; digital delays = 34 LETTERS : Cher and Cher alike; Titanic raised again = 64 COVER : Quentin Tarantino photographed by Rankin／Colorific Film Reviews air de Famille, Un = 36 Amistad = 36 As Good As It Gets = 38 Bent = 39 Blackout, The = 40 Boxer, The = 41 Breakdown = 42 Breaking Up = 43 Butcher Boy, The = 44 Fairytale A True Story = 45 Fallen = 46 Flubber = 47 Gattaca = 48 Good Burger = 49 Good Will Hunting = 50 Kavkazskii plennik／Prisoner of the Mountains = 34, 55 Kiss the Girls = 51 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil = 52 Mrs Dalloway = 53 Paws = 54 Prisoner of the Mountains／Kavkazskii plennik = 34, 55 This Is the Sea = 55 Ugly, The = 56 Wag the Dog = 57 Video Reviews Tom Tunney and Geoffrey Macnab on this month's video releases = 58 PRIVATE VIEW : The Full Monty's screenwriter Simon Beaufoy on Ken Loach's Riff-Raff = 61

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