Sight and Sound

Features ABSOLUTE PRECISION : With Live Flesh, Pedro Almodóvar takes a Ruth Rendell crime novel apart and welds it back together with politics, passion and elegance. By Paul Julian Smith = 6 SCUZZBALLS LIKE US : Woody Allen in the documentary Wild Man Blues is self-obsessed and misanthropic. So is the fictional Allen in Deconstructing Harry. Jonathan Romney wonders if either one is 'real' = 10 RETURNING TO ZERO : Aleksandr Sokurov's elegiac Mother and Son comes highly praised by Paul Schrader, Nick Cave and Susan Sontag. Ian Christie describes the strange career that led to this moment of triumph = 14 RIFF-RAFF REALISM : Combining realism with excess and fantasy, 'spiv' films of the 4os, such as Odd Man Out, The Third Man and They Made Me a Fugitive, offer a rich inheritance for British cinema, argues Peter Wollen = 18 MOONSHINE MAVERICK : Harmony korine wrote kids, is 23 years old, and his directorial debut Gummo has been labelled "repellent" by US critics. Geoffrey Macnab talks to him about dysfunctional teens and the censors = 24 W FOR WAR : From Boer War silent footage to China's version of the Opium Wars, war films mix history with hysteria, passion with propaganda. By Andrew Kelly and Edward Lawrenson = 28 Regulars EDITORIAL : Phoney war = 3 THE DEAL : Mr Hankey; Hitchhiker's Guide returns; dog made man = 4 TELEVISION : Docusoap; TV's top 100; secret filming snag = 32 LETTERS : Visceral ban; Teo Escamilla; Sinatra's peak; a fuller Fuller = 64 COVER : Francesca Neri in Pedro Almodóvar's Live Flesh Film Reviews Best Men = 36 Budbringeren／Junk Mail／Postbudet der vidste for meget = 40 Desperate Measures = 36 Different for Girls = 37 Gummo = 38 Heliu／The River = 34, 51 Jackie Brown = 39 Junk Mail／Budbringeren／Postbudet der vidste for meget = 40 Kundun = 41 Love etc. = 42 Man in the Iron Mask, The = 43 Mat i syn／Mother and Son／Mutter und Sohn = 46 Middleton's Changeling = 43 Money Talks = 44 Mortal Kombat 2 Annihilation = 45 Mother and Son／Mat i syn／Mutter und Sohn = 46 Mousehunt = 47 Mutter und Sohn／Mother and Son／MAt i syn = 46 Oscar and Lucinda = 48 Postbudet der vidste for meget／Junk Mail／Budbringeren = 40 Postman, The = 49 Rainmaker, The = 50 River, The／Heliu = 34, 51 Rothschildin viulu／Rothschild's Violin／Le violon de Rothschild = 51 Rothschild's Violin／Le Violon de Rothschild／Rothschildin viulu = 51 Secret Agent, The = 52 Sphere = 53 Telling Lies in America = 54 Thieves／Les Voleurs = 57 247／TwentyFourSeven = 55 Ulee's Gold = 56 Violon de Rothschild, Le／Rothschild's Violin／Rothschildin viulu = 51 Voleurs, Les／Thieves = 57 Video Reviews Tom Tunney and Geoffrey Macnab on this month's video releases = 58 PRIVATE VIEW : Comedian Sean Hughes on the miserablist Swedish film My Life as a Dog = 61

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